The Freddy Will Hope Foundation (FWHF) is a charitable organization that was established in 2006 by Grammy-nominated Hip-Hop artist and author Freddy Will.  The FWHF is committed to participate in, and assist with, the improvement of universal healthcare in Third world countries. The Foundation focuses on education, research and improving healthcare facilities in developing communities. Our goal is to optimize advanced bedside assistance, provide much needed modernized medical equipment for undeveloped treatment facilities and educate volunteers who lend a hand where needed. The FWHF also seeks to provide geriatric care and relief for impoverished paralyzed orphans and/or refugees around the world.


OUR MISSION AND MANDATE

The mission of the FWHF is to assist various healthcare facilities in Third world countries in their goals to provide comfortable bedside assistance for cancer and geriatric patients as well as, paralyzed orphans and refugees.  Also, the FWHF aids in the delivery of advanced medical equipment and supplies, training of medical technicians and help provide medicine to facilities in underprivileged countries.

The FWHF is fully aware of other sectors in healthcare which are equally in need and where similar attention would ensure tremendous progress (i.e. stem cell research.)  The fight for the prevention of illnesses is now attainable as the progress that has been gained is thanks to the hard work of scientists, researchers, physicians, pharmacists, therapists and nurses who battle against these diseases on a daily basis.

Our mandate aims to fund much needed advanced training programs for healthcare technicians around the globe, including the United States and Canada as well as, advocate for competitive salaries for their increased responsibilities. The FWHF wishes to provide uninsured patients (who are either dying or recovering) the best bedside assistance at rehabilitations facilities around the globe.

FREDDY WILL'S PASSION FOR HEALTHCARE

Freddy Will has a long history in 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 he often had with his mother was to visit impoverished patients in local hospitals to help provide spiritual and material support.

Before embarking fully onto his musical path, Freddy Will was trained at Robertwood Johnson University Hospital as a Phlebotomist and Clinical Care Technician and at Somerset Medical Center as a patient Care Technician.  (Both are located in New Jersey, USA.)  As a skilled Phlebotomist, he studied chemistry and biology in various colleges and also gained more than five years 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 firsthand 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 soon realized the overwhelming shortage of healthcare providers that assisted the 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 himself to one day use his stage to voice the silent cry for adequate healthcare for others.