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Apr 1, 2007
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." --Anthony Robbins
Doctor Inspires Service To Ethiopia
The average life expectancy in Ethiopia is forty years; yet, the ratio of physicians to population remains 1:100,000. As a child growing up in a rural village in Ethiopia, Ingida Asfaw dreamed of becoming a doctor. Carrying his family's hopes and dreams, he traveled to the United States aboard a cargo ship in 1958, arriving at age 16 with little money and only a small suitcase. He attended college, graduated from medical school and became a cardiovascular surgeon. Now 65, Asfaw is chief of cardiovascular surgery at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit. Giving back, in 1999, he helped found the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association, a consortium of over 400 doctors, nurses, technicians and therapists that travels to Ethiopia to teach proper medical care, deliver medicine and supplies, and treat those who cannot afford it.
BE THE CHANGE
Can you think of a way in which you can become more and thereby give something back?
