Virtue Foundation again supported the Lawyers without Borders “Support Through Trial Advocacy Training (STTAT)” program in Nairobi, Kenya. This year, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and wildlife officers were among the participants involved.
In May 2015, Virtue Foundation supported the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation. Operating in Somalia, this Foundation seeks to create access to basic human rights in Somalia through projects on four fronts: Agriculture, Education, Healthcare, and WASH, a sanitation and clean water project. The organization hopes to generate socially empowered and environmentally responsible communities in Somalia,…
In May of 2015, the Virtue Foundation and a team of 31 surgeons, nurses, and medical volunteers traveled to Mongolia for the annual Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia.
In late March of 2015, Virtue Foundation again supported Medical Students Making Impacts. Coming from the Global Health Student Organization of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, MSMI mobilizes medical students to provide healthcare in underserved areas.
In preparation for the March 2015 ‘Paari Gbeile Festival’ in Tumu, Ghana, the students of the Virtue Educational Club of Tumu Senior Technical School participated in a community clean-up campaign for the second year in a row. In addition to their school and other public grounds, the Virtue Educational Club also helped to clean up…
In January of 2015, several Virtue Foundation volunteer surgeons from Vienna, Austria collected a donation of medications and supplies to be sent to Tumu District Hospital, Ghana.
Together with Wolfram Alpha, Virtue Foundation has taken the next steps in bringing the Data Mapping for Sustainable Development Initiative to fruition. As part of this Initiative, Virtue Foundation and Wolfram Alpha have developed a multi-layered, relational map of Ghana.
On Friday, November 7th, 2014, the Virtue Foundation Ghana Team will again share their experiences from last year’s Women’s Health Mission to Ghana at LKH Wolfsberg Hospital in Austria.
Virtue Foundation has again supported the training of judges and lawyers in Kenya as part of the Trial Advocacy Training program in collaboration with Lawyers without Borders. This year’s group contained an entire judicial training team who worked with 50 Kenyan Judges, training on issues such as corruption, money laundering and terrorism.
The Virtue Foundation has returned from it’s sixth Surgical and Teaching Mission in Mongolia. This year, the mission team travelled to Mongolia in two groups, a smaller team in April, and a larger team in May.