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FREDDY WILL HOPE FOUNDATION

The Freddy Will Hope Foundation (F.W.H.F) was founded on May 15th, 2006 by hip hop artist and author Freddy Will. The Freddy Will Hope Foundation was established to raise funds for research and participate in the improvement of universal healthcare by encouraging skilled volunteers to lend a hand where needed. Funds raised by the F.W.H.F will be donated to researchers, hospitals, charities and healthcare facilities (around the world) to optimize advanced bedside assistance and provide much needed modernized medical equipment for undeveloped treatment facilities. The F.W.H.F also seeks to provide relief for impoverished orphans and refugees around the world who are paralyzed.

THE MISSION

The mission of the Freddy Will Hope Foundation is to assist various healthcare facilities in third world countries such as Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia in their goals to provide comfortable bedside assistance for cancer and geriatric patients and also aid in the delivering of advanced medical equipment, training of medical technicians and help provide medicine to facilities in underprivileged countries.

The Foundation also aims to fund a much advanced training programme for healthcare technicians in the United States and Canada as well as, advocate for their increased responsibilities with competitive salaries. F.W.H.F. wishes to provide uninsured patients who are either dying or recovering, the best bedside assistance at any rehabilitation facility in the world.

Freddy Will Hope Foundation is fully aware of other sectors in healthcare which are equally in need where similar attention will ensure tremendous progress. Thanks to the hard work of scientists, researchers, physicians, pharmacists, therapists and nurses who battle against many illnesses, the fight against and prevention of illness is now attainable. The F.W.H.F is aware that stem cell research must be exploited ethically in order for the world to benefit from the promises it may hold.

THE HISTORY

Freddy Will has a long history in healthcare. He was trained at Robertwood Johnson University Hospital as a Phlebotomist and Clinical Care Technician in New Jersey, USA, at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey, USA as a patient Care Technician and as a skilled Phlebotomist he studied chemistry and biology in various colleges. He also gained more than five years of experience working hands-on with cancer and geriatric patients.

After surviving two civil wars in West Africa, he bore the humiliating experience of seeking refuge in various West African countries where many refugees died from cancer without any treatment. While working on the oncology unit in a New Jersey hospital, he was shocked to learn about cancer in the 'land of his dreams' (the United States of America) as there were people fighting a similar battle against cancer like the ones he saw during his refugee days in Sierra Leone and The Gambia in West Africa. Even worse, patients in Africa had no access to treatment or medicine. Freddy Will saw the devastating effects of cancer on patients he worked with.

By 2003, as a staff member of One East at Somerset Medical Center, he also learned about the challenges of Alzheimer’s while caring for the aged on the geriatric unit. Freddy Will has worked in medical laboratories where he collected and processed various specimens to help determine their biological and chemical components. He realized the overwhelming shortage of healthcare providers that assisted physicians and nurses who worked tirelessly on long shifts. This fateful encounter exposed Freddy Will to a world where every aspect of mobility and livelihood had to be voice activated and wheelchair accessible. He promised to use his stage to voice of the silent cry for adiquate healthcare.

While growing up in Monrovia and later on in Kakata, Liberia, West Africa, he played various roles as a young member in Hospital Outreach Ministries in his church. Lead by his mother, before the civil war erupted, it was in that environment that Freddy Will first picked up the idea to help the sick. One of the responsibilities they had was to often visit impoverished patients in local hospitals to help provide spiritual and material support.

The official launch of The Freddy Will Hope Foundation will be in the summer/fall of 2010. The Foundation is currently appointing its Board of Directors from both the USA and Canada. Volunteers can apply in the spring/summer of 2010. Please fill out the contact form on the ‘contacts/bookings link’ on the page browser above for more information.

To find out more about the Freddy Will Hope Foundation, please send your questions or comments to Freddywill.hope@gmail.com

Find out how you, your company, or foundation can donate funds; or if you are a representative of a healthcare facility or company who would like to partner with us, please send your questions or comments to Freddywill.hope@gmail.com. You will be contacted by one of our representatives from the Foundation.

-The Freddy Will Hope Foundation