By Tom Neill | Operations Director
Celebrate the holidays this year by giving the gift of HOPE
Thank you to all our Giving Tuesday donors. We are humbled by your generosity. GECC was able to raise over $12,000 towards our year end goal. But, we still have $6,647 to go to complete our Year End Giving Challenge goal and YOU can help. Your donation will directly fund the expansion of the Emergency Care Practitioner program to Masaka Hospital in Uganda in 2015. By expanding the ECP program, we will be able test the hypothesis that provision of emergency care by non-physician clinicians can have a significant impact on death and disability. Proving the intervention’s effectiveness in a large, public hospital will allow for more support for expansion throughout the Ugandan health care system and will encourage the application of the model in other settings in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt, Co-Founder and Executive Director, reflects on the past seven years. Here's an excerpt from her new blog post: "We’ve built an emergency department at Nyakibale Hospital, have created an innovative and unique task shifting emergency care training program that is garnering international attention, have published international articles from a wealth of robust data, have a model being replicated in other countries, have advised nations on emergency care, are on our fifth class of Emergency Care Practitioners and are planning an expansion of the program nationally and in Kenya." Read the entire blog.
Give a Gift In Honor or In Memory of a Loved One
If you're stuck for a great last minute gift idea, check out GECC's GlobalGiving page where you can give a gift in honor of or in memory of a loved one and send them a paper or electronic card to tell them how much you appreciate them.
Thank you for your continued support. GECC wishes you and yours a Happy and Healthy Holidays season.
Warm regards,
Tom
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