WGO Global Mentor Fund
The recently established WGO Foundation is proud to initiate the WGO Global Mentor Fund during the WGO’s 50th Anniversary.
Every year the WGO Foundation will honour and celebrate Mentors who have made significant contributions to gastroenterology on a global scale. A special WGO Global Mentor Fund will be established. During DDW 2008 the Mentors will be announced and later honoured during the WGO World Congress in London 2009.
Purpose:
To make WGO Mentor Scholar Awards to promising up-and-coming gastroenterologists in developing low-resource countries to give them the financial support to further their careers in digestive disease. This Scholar Award is uniquely directed toward supporting those talented individuals who are committed to furthering the care of digestive disorders in their home country and their training will be specifically tailored to optimally prepare them for their future. Therefore, the primary sites for this postgraduate training will be a WGO Training Center in their particular geographical region. Since the establishment of the WGO Training Centers, 1100 trainees from developing countries have benefited and we are working diligently to raise funds in support of additional awards and trainees.
Mentors:
We wish to raise the funds necessary to support our trainees by honouring those who have made significant contributions to gastroenterology on a global scale through leadership, development of global programmes, and promotion of education in and collegiality with underserved areas. This is an opportunity for former students, colleagues and trainees to honour their own Mentors and at the same time make a meaningful contribution to the future of gastroenterology in developing low-resource countries.
Goal:
To raise US$ 2,000,000 which will allow us to annually fund ca. ten trainees.
Your support:
We appeal to you to join us in this important group effort. Even US$ 100 can make a difference, by assisting a doctor from a developing low-resource country to travel to a WGO Training Center and ultimately in helping those who suffer from digestive diseases and are most in need of better care.
Clearly, it will take the generous personal commitments of many of us to achieve our goal, but together, we can do it.
Bernard Levin, MD
Chairman WGO Foundation
Prof. Eamonn MM Quigley
President WGO
