In Tumu in northwestern Ghana, there’s only one hospital to serve 100,000 people and transportation is scarce. The result: injured children never see a doctor, women die in labor before they can reach medical help. But those appalling facts started to change when Women in the World, Virtue Foundation and Toyota came along with a few simple solutions.
Get on the Map! is an innovative new interactive mapping initiative that lets non-profits, governments, corporations and individuals access, analyze and visualize rich stores of data to better design their interventions. It aims to centralize national, district-level and local data, as well as Virtue Foundation indices in its core competences of health, education, empowerment and justice.
Yem Chhoun recounted when her husband’s mistress attacked her and her newborn baby with acid. Her village told her to let her daughter die, but with the help of panelist Dr. Ebby Elahi, both have recovered.
Virtue Foundation returns to Mongolia in 2010 with an even larger team of physicians and surgeons for its second medical mission to Ulaanbaatar.
In June 2009, Virtue Foundation together with Surgical Eye Expeditions sponsored a team of physicians for a two-week surgical mission to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Virtue Foundation began working with local schools and partnering with corporations such as Apple and Microsoft to revitalize the educational system, resulting in a donation of $1.2 million in notebook computers, software and hardware to local schools.
Soledad O’Brien from CNN American Morning speaks with Dr. Joan LaRovere featuring Virtue Foundation’s work in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina.