Nicole Pagourgis's Fundraiser
My Appeal
All funds will go to keep Lao Friends Hospital for Children operating and able to provide free, high-quality medical care to every child who needs it.
My Progress
Nicole is walking 5 miles and raising funds for Friends Without A Border. Please show your support and donate generously.
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5 miles
My Cause
The Mission:
We believe every child has the right to a healthy and loving life.
Friends Without A Border strives to accomplish its mission by providing free, compassionate medical care to the children of Southeast Asia, by creating community health education programs, training local healthcare professionals, and by prevention programs to keep children healthy.
About the Organization:
Friends Without A Border (Friends) was founded in 1996 after photographer Kenro Izu was in Siem Reap, Cambodia to photograph the Angkor Wat temples and wandered into a local hospital. While there, he witnessed the preventable death of a 7-year-old girl whose father did not have the $2 necessary to purchase life-saving medicine. Witnessing this changed his life and he, through FWAB, founded Angkor Hospital for Children, a free teaching hospital which has now treated over 1.5 million children, and changed all of their lives.
In 2015, after turning over Angkor Hospital for Children to locals, Friends opened a new hospital in Luang Prabang, Laos. Laos has the highest child mortality rate in the region and a very high poverty level. Lao Friends Hospital for Children is also a free teaching hospital and treats over 40,000 children per year. We have homecare, a development clinic for disabled children, a neonatal department, a surgical suite and a thalassemia clinic to treat children suffering from this debilitating form of anemia, an ER, an outpatient ward as well as inpatient services and a critical care unit. We treat over 40,000 cases annually.
We adhere to the "give a person a fish versus teach a person to fish" philosophy as well. We are training local clinicians both inside the hospital and in other districts with the goal of improving the quality of healthcare throughput the country, particularly in the north. Our goal is to reduce child mortality rates in the country and to teach a new generation of pediatricians. We are also dedicated to the prevention of malnutrition and stunted growth and have implemented a trial program in two districts focusing on the first 1000 days of a child’s life.
Recent Donations
TC
$ 2,500
CM
$ 5
JW
$ 50
Keep up the good work!
MC
$ 10
❤️
GC
$ 10
CL
$ 20
JS
$ 250
CB
$ 250
Good luck Nicole ❤️
SB
$ 10
Sorry it’s not a lot! I hope this can at least help a little x
PJ
$ 50
Good luck, Nicole!
MH
$ 25
JS
$ 500
MS
$ 100
Go Nicole!
SR
$ 1,000
Thanks Nicole!
JA
$ 250
M
$ 1,000
Run NicoleRun!!!
NP
$ 10
TL
$ 500
A
$ 1,000
RE
$ 500
NF
$ 140
MM
$ 5,000
LE
$ 100
What a wonderful cause Nicole- good luck!
PM
$ 100
Glad to support your Run for Charity to support the hospital in Laos.
KE
$ 500
MG
$ 1,000
KH
$ 100
You're awesome, Nik. You go girl!!
KB
$ 1,000
Nicole, thanks for participating on all the board’s behalf!
RG
$ 25
SJ
$ 2,000
I'd be running with you but for my achilles tendon! send video ;)
NP
$ 5
NP
