Witnessing PATH's mission in action
Fifteen-year-old Morgan Burdick is already a savvy world traveler. Now, after
joining PATH for a trip to Asia, she can add global health witness to her list.
In January, the high school freshman from
Mercer Island, Washington, spent two weeks at PATH project sites in Thailand and Cambodia on the inaugural PATH Journeys trip. With her mother, Mary
Kay, a longtime PATH volunteer and supporter, Morgan saw up close how our work is touching communities, families, and even teenagers who share her
concerns and hopes.
Like the rural community that now has access to clean water. Or the father who proudly displayed PATH
vaccination cards to show that all of his children have been immunized. Or the high school students who, inside their open-air school, are learning
about condom use and protection from HIV.
Morgan was familiar with PATH's mission before traveling to
Asia, "but it's so different to actually see it," she says.
Read more of Morgan's story.
PATH Journeys
PATH Journeys, our donor travel program, opens the door to a world where families
and communities are helped every day by projects funded by people like you. We are currently planning trips to Vietnam, India, and Kenya. Please join
us! For more information, visit www.path.org/path-journeys.php or
contact Aly Vander Stoep, senior donor relations manager, at avanderstoep@path.org.
Thanks to the sponsors of our 2008 Breakfast for Global Health
Each year, PATH welcomes our supporters to the Breakfast for
Global Health, an annual fundraising event that fuels our most innovative work. Guests join us in our transformed parking garage for breakfast and a
brief presentation from the field—this year, from India, where the Sure
Start project brings better health to mothers and babies.
We are grateful to the generous
sponsors listed below, who, by underwriting the event, will make it possible to send every dollar raised directly to the Catalyst
Fund.
Lead sponsor:
Principal sponsors:
Event sponsors:
Bank of America, CB Richard Ellis, Hanover Investments LLC, UST
Global
Additional support provided by:
Children's Hospital & Regional Medical
Center, ExOfficio, Insect Shield, Symetra Financial, and TEMPTIME Corporation—among the many who made
this event possible.
For more information about the Breakfast for Global Health, contact events@path.org.
New hope for
mothers and newborns in India
The first few days
of life should be joyful. But in the poorest regions in India, babies face overwhelming obstacles to survival. With help from our supporters, PATH is
working to improve the odds for India's children.
Flexible funding from individual donors has helped us strengthen our India program, bringing
expert leadership to key new initiatives—among them, the Sure Start project. Through Sure Start, PATH is
helping communities protect newborns and their mothers through simple, effective measures: guiding pregnant women to necessary health services,
helping new mothers learn to care for their babies.
Sure Start will reach more than a
million mothers and children in the coming years. And your support is making it possible.
In the news
Volunteers lining up to be bit by mosquitoes carrying
malaria
The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer takes a close look at a new strategy for testing a malaria vaccine.
The end of extreme
poverty
"Impossible dream or attainable goal?" asks Response
magazine.
Exposing
violence against women
The Lancet is featuring a landmark study on the true impact of domestic violence. Read more about PATH's role.
For more coverage,
visit our press room.
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today.
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