Nurses With Global Impact’s mission is to share the work of visionaries like the LIG Foundation and invite nurses to join quality efforts, in this case providing cervical cancer screenings to women, in partnership with the Marion Rose World Mission.
We’re delighted to share these photos from our trip and this information (you can read more on their website).
We’re also excited to share the news that Nurses With Global Impact will be traveling again with the LIG team to Haiti in April, where we are working together to raise up an emergency care clinic in Northern Haiti, supported by Philips Corporation, and that Dr. Sadural will also be part of our International Nurses Day event at the United Nations in May of 2017.
Let’s get behind these efforts – contact me if you’re interested in volunteering!
– Deb
LIFE IS GREAT FOUNDATION
The LIG Global Foundation began as the dream of four close friends who made a promise to give of themselves through charitable medical care. In August of 2011, these four friends, Dr. Sarah Timmapuri (CEO), Dr. Ernani Sadural (COO), Dr. Raghu Thunga (CMO), and Mr Surya Kuchimanchi (CIO) formed the LIG Global Foundation with a primary aim to provide a global community in which everyone will have access to up-to-date surgical equipment and excellent health-care.This organization then received its status as a designated 501(c)3 non-profit on September 4, 2011.
With the dedicated and focused commitment of its founding members and its hundreds of volunteers, LIG has conducted charitable projects around the world in nine countries (Dominican Republic, Haiti, India, Philippines, Grenada, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Peru) through a number of successful trips over the past years. LIG has partnered with other charitable organizations, local community organizations, medical schools, residency programs and public charitable clinics. It has set up a telemedicine station in one of the public health clinics in the city of Iloilo in the Philippines and is currently using this to give cardiology support to a clinic that previously had no EKG machine and no cardiac care.
LIG has partnered with the St. Paul’s University Hospital in Iloilo and participates in the teaching of its OB/GYN residents through visiting professorships. LIG has also trained local community workers and nurses in India in VIA (visual inspection of the cervix utilizing acetic acid), an economical alternative to PAP smears in rural areas where there are no available laboratory facilities. LIG has collected an more than $2 million dollars worth of donated medications, equipment and supplies and has distributed these donations throughout its projects.
The purpose of the LIG Global Foundation:
- To deliver reliable, excellent medical care to people around the world who have little or no access to it.
- To serve as a hub for donations to people with unmet needs from people and companies with resources.
- Educate healthcare professionals to do medical volunteerism.
- Bring attention to people and communities in dire need through photojournalism
The Marian Rose World Mission was started in New Jersey June 1994 with Project: Share a Book and evolved into foundation focusing on education and health issues of women and children. It officially applied for recognition to the state of New Jersey in 2012.
Mission Statement
“…Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me….”
MRWM upholds the sanctity of life from conception to death. With this guiding principle, MRWM aims to :
- Provide quality healthcare to all peoples all over the world that need it
- Provide educational opportunities to medical, nursing and non-medical volunteers in terms of service to all peoples of all cultures, beliefs and practices
- Establish concerted efforts with local health care and educational institutions to provide and promote health of body and mind
- Provide assistance to educational facilities in terms of bringing purchased and donated books, computers and other materials to improve basic education all over the world
- Appeal to the generosity of individuals and organizations who have resources and talents, financial and otherwise, to donate some for the improvements of the lives of others who have less
- Develop database of all recipients of various programs by utilization of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to facilitate data retrieval should there be a need for information sharing and research
- Identify talents in local communities and provide opportunities to help such talents actualize their potentials
- Establish livelihood projects for women of underprivileged areas in the Philippines and others areas in the world to promote financial independence
- Conduct educational programs for women focusing on health and financial wellness
