New Friends & Old Friends Meet

Dr. Fawzy is a new friend, a pediatrician by training but a humanitarian at heart. He gathers doctors of various specialties to go to small villages to provide medical care that is not otherwise available to them.

The caravan goes out twice per month and takes 5 – 15 doctors with them to treat the patients that are prepared by village leaders as the most needy. They check eyes to fit them for glasses and also perform surgery as necessary. Pediatricians orthopedist, dentist, and prosthetic engineer are regularly a part of the free services that participate regularly.

Dr. Salah is also a new friend. He is the prosthetic engineer with Dr Fawzy’s campaign and has a passion for his work to serve the poor of Egypt. He is an orthopedic surgeon and has practiced for 30 years. He has worked on the International Special Olympics Committee for 20 years and he is a bundle of entrepreneurial energy and fun to be around, but don’t get in his way.

Dr. Hathoot is an old friend and an ophthalmologist that has a clinic and a caravan to provide vision care for those in remote locations that do not have access to healt5h care facilities. He also helps the poor in Egypt that cannot afford medical services.

Prof./Dr. Saif should be a familiar name to you as we have worked with he and his father for many years. He is an ophthalmologist, a university professor and a humanitarian. He has a charity campaign that has provided services for the poor for 46 years and we have worked with him to support his vision work, distribute wheelchairs, blankets and other simple needs to the poor in upper Egypt, Cairo and the Delta area.

None of these doctors knew of the humanitarian work of the others or had not partnered together, so it was our plan to get them together to meet one another and share their “best practices” with each other.  We met at a very nice Egyptian restaurant for our dinner meeting.  They met and talked with each other like old friends… what a delight to us! They exchanged phone numbers and email addresses and made plans to get together and talk more.  One had great strengths in finding funding, another had a good source of volunteers, one has a mobile clinic, another has good connections with government leaders… they shared their ideas and experiences for an hour-and-a-half.  Before we knew it was  10:00 P.M. and they needed to get on their way to their next meeting. They expressed their appreciation over and over and when I looked for the dinner check it was paid and they were out the door.  They are great men doing a wonderful humanitarian work. We are privileged to know them and have an opportunity to support them in their good works.