Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana supports successful Lawyers Without Borders Judicial Training in Accra, Ghana. With a grant from the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana and financial and logistics support from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) implemented a three-day judicial training led by 11…
In April 2012, Virtue Foundation volunteer surgeons and doctors provide patient consultations and reconstructive surgeries in Tumu, Ghana. Virtue Foundation Director of Global Health and International Programming, Dr. Ebby Elahi, returned to Tumu, one of the most remote and neglected regions of Ghana, to provide diagnostic workup and reconstructive surgery to the population. Dr. Elahi…
Since mapping available global health data in November 2011, Co-Founder and Vice President Dr. Joan LaRovere and her team implemented a pilot project—a noninvasive ventilation program for children under five that has reduced cause-specific child mortality rates due to respiratory failure from 14 to 4 percent—in Tumu Hospital. Non-invasive ventilation has also been introduced to…
Congratulations to Virtue Foundation’s Co-Founder and Vice President, Dr. Joan LaRovere, for making Newsweek’s prestigious list of 150 Women Who Shake the World. We celebrate Joan for her inspiring efforts as a medical professional, humanitarian, and global advocate for women and children.
Participants included 30 jurists (including 5 supreme court justices), prominent scholars and distinguished advocates and practitioners. “I found the conference to be one of the most stimulating that I have ever attended. It was enlightening to hear from so many practitioners (judges, lawyers, doctors, etc.) and I was especially inspired by a number of those…
October 23, 2009 Program: Introductory Remarks Prof. Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society (CCS). McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University. Winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals. Member, CCS….
Empower Women Change our World The Virtue Foundation is proud to have both its founding members, Dr. Joseph Salim and Dr. Joan LaRovere, serve on Avon’s Hello Tomorrow Fund panel of prestigious judges, who will award individuals with the most Innovative and compelling Ideas for empowering women and their respective societies with a $5,000 cash…
The following account is from a New York-based physician deployed by Virtue Foundation to visit Mukhtar Mai and render medical assistance and supplies to children in the hospitals and shelters Mukhtar has established in her village with the compensation money she received