Virtue Foundation’s Digital Storytelling Initiative helps students make a difference in their Hunts Point, N.Y. communities. The Hunts Point Alliance for Children collaborated with seventh and eighth graders at MS 424 and Saint Ignatius middle schools to complete the year-long Virtue Foundation Digital Storytelling Initiative that examines how students can impact their communities. During the…
Virtue Foundation sponsors team of 24 medical professionals and obtains more than $900,000.00 USD worth of equipment and supplies to implement fourth surgical teaching mission in Ulaanbaatar and Khovd, Mongolia. In May 2012, a team of 24 volunteer surgeons, residents, nurses, medical students and support staff joined Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global…
In May 2012, Vice President and Co-Founder Dr. Joan LaRovere visited China as part of the official delegation for the third People-to-People Exchange.
Virtue Foundation volunteer obstetricians/gynecologists visit Tumu Hospital to examine patients and plan long-term collaboration for women’s health in northern Ghana. As part of the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana’s Healthcare Initiative, Professor Egarter and Dr. Nouri, specialists from the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital, Vienna,…
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….