AHD Launching $5.5M Capital Campaign
AHD just launched a campaign to raise $5.5 million over 5 years for a new hospital, training center, and research center in Santo Domingo, Ecuador. Please click here to visit the Capital Campaign site to learn more!
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Dr. David Gaus in “The Hospitalist”
Check out an article on Dr. Gaus in The Hospitalist‘s piece on “Hospitalists in the Developing World.”
Gaus and Andean Health and Development have established a model of quality, sustainable health care that can be exported to new parts of Latin America.
Read the article here: http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/article/843951/Hospitalists_in_the_Developing_World.html
Donate to quality, sustainable health care for rural Latin America.
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AHD on Global Giving: September Challenge
UPDATE: WE REACHED OUR GOAL! Thank you to everyone who donated and helped spread the word. We now have a permanent place on Global Giving’s website!
Andean Health & Development is participating in a challenge on globalgiving.com. Global Giving has posted one of AHD most recent pressing needs: an x-ray machine to diagnose kids with pneumonia, bone fractures, and other illnesses. In order to keep this project alive on Global Giving, we need to raise $4,000 from 50 different donors until the end of September. Could you please help us reach our goal? Your donation will help us get the necessary equipment for our hospitals and will help us expand our network of donors by keeping our project alive on Global Giving.
X-Ray Machine for Kids and Babies in the Rural Andes
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Dr. David Gaus & John Rudolf in Notre Dame Magazine
Notre Dame Magazine‘s summer edition presents David Gaus (ND ’84) and Andean Health & Development’s expansion into Santo Domingo, Ecuador.
The article came alongside a feature article on Advisory Board Member John Rudolf, who bravely attempted to summit the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, this past May. In his final climb of the continents’ seven highest summits, Rudolf (ND ’70) challenged Everest to raise funds and awareness for Andean Health’s new teaching hospital/research facility in Santo Domingo.
The magazine presents two articles — one on Gaus and AHD’s innovative rural hospital model and another on the Everest climb — both written by John’s son and New York Times writer, John Collins Rudolf. Magazine editor Kerry Temple also mentions both men in his editor’s note.
Click here to read “From Mountaintop to Global Health.”
Click here to read “Destination Everest.”
Click here to read editor Kerry Temple’s piece mentioning Rudolf and Gaus, “Here and There.”
Thank you for your generous and sustained support to the health of the children and families in Ecuador.
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Social Entrepreneur, David Gaus, Receives Award
David Gaus, Executive Director of Andean Health and Development, received the 2010 Social Entrepreneur Award for Latin America at the World Economic Forum in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 8th. The World Economic Forum is a Geneva, Switzerland-based foundation best known for its annual meeting in Davos which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, including health and the environment.
The Schwab Foundation recognized David for this award because of his “Rural Hospital Model,” which emphasizes the provision of quality health care on the ground now and the education of the future’s leaders in rural health. The Schwab Foundation identifies and advances the missions of the world’s true innovators.
Watch David accept this award at the ceremony! Best to skip ahead to 4:45.
Congratulations to Dr. David Gaus! This is a huge step for Andean Health and Development sparking the attention of the ever-expanding global health community. You can view the entire report from the 2010 World Economic Forum by clicking here. (pdf)
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