FP Report -- June 1999
Think Uzbekistan
Help fund specialty's international activities
Family physician Dick Westerman, M.D. (right), of Kalamazoo, Mich., distributed good cheer and peanut butter cookies to orphans in Novosibirsk, Russia, last year.The annual Physicians With Heart airlift to a former Soviet republic has a new twist this year. It's you and your checkbook.
In former years, you were asked to contribute used medical equipment to the humanitarian effort. For this year's airlift to Uzbekistan, you're invited instead to donate funds. Your generosity will cover the costs of such items as:
- new medical supplies, including otoscopes and stethoscopes;
- medical education materials, including computer equipment and CD-ROMs; and
- food, clothing and a party for children in an orphanage.
Family physicians and others may also join the Sept. 25-Oct. 5 airlift to Uzbekistan.
The Academy, the AAFP Foundation, and Heart to Heart International, a humanitarian organization based in Olathe, Kan., have sponsored the multimillion-dollar Physicians With Heart projects each year since 1993. The sponsors ask pharmaceutical and medical supply companies to donate to the airlift. This year, materials funded by family physicians will supplement the companies' donations.
To make a tax-deductible contribution toward the purchase of new supplies, educational products and assistance for an Uzbek orphanage, please send your contribution to the AAFP Foundation International Fund, 8880 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64114-2797.
For more information or to contribute by credit card, call AAFP Foundation EVP Sandy Panther at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 4450.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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