By Tom Neill | Operations Director
I hope Thanksgiving was a wonderful time for you shared with family and friends. I’m writing because today officially begins GECC’s year-end fundraising campaign. Today, we are participating in #GivingTuesday – a global movement to celebrate generosity and giving. In that spirit of generosity, GECC’s board of directors has offered to match all donations to GECC by 50%. That means for every $100 you donate, GECC will receive $150 to deliver life saving emergency care to those who need it most. To qualify for the matching funds, you must donate through GECC's website HERE.
To learn more about where your donations go, I would like to introduce you to Glorious, one of GECC’s junior Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs). Glorious began her training as an ECP in January of 2014. Like several other ECPs, Glorious studied nursing at Nyakibale hospital where she first started working with the ECPs in the Emergency Department as a student. She graduated from nursing school in 2013 and found a job as a nurse in Ibanda. But before she left Nyakibale, she told her friends that as soon as GECC opened the application process for the next class of ECPs to let her know. It was opened in the end of 2013; she applied, interviewed in December with Dr. Heather, and started the program in January 2014. She loves working as an ECP because she learns so much and loves taking care of patients. She says that she has very smart and knowledgeable teachers in her senior ECPs and the visiting physicians. She finds working as an ECP challenging for her because she lives over seven hours away from her family, but she is doing work that makes it worth it to her.
Together, we can help save lives by providing training and education to qualified ECPs. On average, each trained Emergency Care Practitioner will treat over 40,000 patients during the course of their career. Support GECC today and change people's lives tomorrow!
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