Inter-religious doctors and other participants come together to bring medical services to the disadvantaged.
Friends of Good Health is a local grassroots effort to bring modern medical advances to the disadvantaged. PTWF has partnered with this worthwhile cause and is sponsoring a trip bringing over 20 doctors, along with vital medical supplies and medical equipment, to the needy in South America.
This project was the inspiration of Mr. Bobby Kalotee, a local Long Island businessman and philanthropist. Friends of Good Health brings together representatives of many faiths and beliefs, in order to provide needed medical expertise to those who would never have such access.
PTWF is proud to sponsor this work in service of our mission – to bring initiate and see to fruition inter-religious gestures of good will, which show the caring and benevolence of all, in the service of humanity.
You can make a tax deducible gift to Friends of Good Health through PTWF. 100% of the funds collected will go to the charity.
Pave the Way Foundation is a registered 501C3 Public Charity.
February 2011 our group of physicians went to El Salvador. Preliminary reports document that over 5,000 patients were examined and treated.
A group of doctors from the organization “Friends for Good Health” arrived in El Salvador on February 4, 2011 to participate in healthcare campaigns, for the benefit of the low income population of San Salvador and Sonsonate.
At a press conference at Nassau Medical Center of Long Island, Bobby Kalotee, President of the philanthropic organization said the campaign was conducted through collaboration and coordination with the mayors of Sonsonate and San Salvador, Roberto Aquinoand and Norman Quijano, who secured all the necessary logistics for the campaign. It will provide free medical care in different medical specialties, by 23 experts who donate their time to Friends for Good Health.
The volunteer group provides services in different hospitals in Long Island and New York. This was the first time they traveled to El Salvador on a humanitarian mission, which this year will also propose extending to Ecuador and the Dominican Republic in the coming months.
PTWF supports the efforts of the United Hatzalah emergency service organization. This organization has volunteers who are Jewish, Christian and Muslim, and who serve emergency needs throughout Israel.
Principle Eli Beer discusses the need for additional Muslim volunteers with Gary and Meredith Krupp and Sam Philipe of Pave the Way Foundation.
In furtherance of our mission, through our Jerusalem representative Sam Philipe, PTWF expanded gift charity to Eastern European Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem. We are distributing special electric tea kettles and down blankets for the elderly, who live on fixed incomes and cannot afford such items.
This gift was made possible through the generosity of PTWF Director Richard Kandel.
PTWF volunteer Michael Barbuck distributes blankets with Gary and Meredith Krupp.
Elderly Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe living in North Jerusalem are assisted by Pave the Way Foundation.
Pave the Way Foundation Director in Israel Sam Philipe, locates specific, unfilled needs of poor and needy people in Israel. Sam initiated our “Project Baby” wherein PTWF assisted poor Jewish, Christian and Muslim mothers receive gift baskets of one month supplies of baby formula, diapers and toys.
Sam asked us to intercede on behalf of poor Holocaust survivors living in subsidized “Beit Gil Hazahav” housing in Jerusalem, These people only recently emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. The down blankets we distributed provide warmth for them during the winter months. We have distributed hundreds of blankets in many different facilities at Beit Gilhazav, Jerusalem
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance for this project from:
The supporters of and the Board of Directors and Advisors of Pave the Way Foundation
IIchlu Reim- Rabbi Uriel Malul and Dalia Hillman
Sam and Shirley Philipe
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, NY Board of Rabbis
The Jewish Community of Santa Barbara, California Mr. Michael Ressler
Harry Epstein
Norman Weisfeld
Arthur Spiegel
Cornelius Matwijecky
Harry Epstein and Gary and Meredith Krupp of PTWF distributing blankets.
Shirley Philpe of PTWF handing blankets to the needy.
Gary Krupp acknowledges those who contributed to this project. PTWF volunteer Michael Barbuck distributes blankets.
In addition to the blankets project, Ichloo Reim and Rabbi Uriel Malul (above right) run a soup kitchen where they provide meals for these needy people. They only have the funds for one meal a month and so we are seeking help from anyone who wishes to participate in this project and provide meals once a week. The cost is $3,500 for 258 meals per week for one month.
