PAIGE STRINGER 2019 HEALTH AWARD Founder, Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss Vietnam and Mongolia Paige Stringer’s childhood, college years and professional career have been seemingly traditional. She attended mainstream schools starting in kindergarten. She earned a full tennis scholarship to the University of Washington for her undergraduate education. She earned her Master’s degree…
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BERTHA HOLT 2000 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Holt International Children’s Services Bulgaria, Kenya, Haiti and Uganda Mother of 14 children, eight of whom were adopted from Korea, Bertha Holt dedicated her time, effort and life to helping orphaned children around the world. Holt was a pioneer of inter-country adoption and an advocate for improved child welfare standards around…
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DR. SHANKAR MAN RAI 2005 HEALTH AWARD Interplast Surgical Outreach Program Kathmandu, Nepal Shankar Man Rai, M.D., a reconstructive plastic surgeon and native of Nepal, has devoted much of his life to providing free plastic surgeries to children with birth defects, cleft lips and palates, and burn injuries in areas of the world where these…
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Dr. Jane Aronson is the founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans, which provides education, medical care, and psychosocial support in local communities so that they can become confident, competent, thriving adults who will change the world around them.
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