An Inclusive World.

I think it’s important for us to live in an inclusive world. Excluding people for this reason or that is, in most cases, grossly unfair. I also think that the myth of the self-made man is exactly that, a myth. All of us are born under many conditions over which we had no control or no vote, i.e. where and when we were born, whether we were male or female, the color of our skin, our ethnicity, and our religion.
                -Thomas J. White


So Tom, the man who wrote this quote has "enabled Partners In Health to do “whatever it takes” to improve the lives and health of patients in destitute communities around the world; whether financing the construction of a small clinic in Cange, to purchasing a microscope, or paying $30,000 per patient for PIH’s first multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) program."


But don't you love what he writes...living in an inclusive world - what does that actually look like??   And I agree it isn't fair to exclude people from certain health care privileges or certain services simply because of WHERE they were born.  So why is it that so many are excluded??  I am granted so many privileges simply by being born in the United States - clean water, running water, good sanitation, hospitals staffed with educated doctors and nurses, all sorts of medicines and facilities at my disposal.  But think about what your life would look like if you were born elsewhere - doctors and hospitals may be a rare commodity, healthcare itself may be a rare commodity, clean water is definitely a rare commodity, access to medicine rare commodity...and the list goes on.  And Partners in Health doesn't let these differences stand in their way because they fully believe everyone should have equal access to health care options regardless of WHERE they were born.  And I love that idea...call me a socialist - I don't care because it is something I will always stand by!


Anyhow if you care to read the rest of the article about Tom White click HERE or go to the Partners in Health website or click HERE to go to my previous blog entry about Partners in Health and Mountains Beyond Mountains.