Access to healthcare is a human right and an important indicator of a country’s living stan- dard. ABF’s mission is to support economic opportunity and community development, so in 2022 it added the healthcare priority area to its work portfolio. The Foundation’s goal is to help improve healthcare for all in Bulgaria. “The Pirogov experience affirmed our conclusion that it is worth revisiting ABF’s role in this high-impact field. Today, we are applying the lessons we learned from Little Heroes to the Firefly project—through which we and our partners from Za Dobroto Foundation are renovating pediatric wards in several Bulgarian hospitals,” says ABF President Nancy Schiller.
The real-life superheroes working at the transformed clinics also inspire their little patients.
“The hospital is not the most wonderful place to be, yet it was here that I learned some of the most important lessons — to never surrender, to believe, to fight, and to dream about the future… I am grateful to you for motivating me to study medicine so that one day I can help people, give them faith, and make them smile even more than before — as you did with me!”
writes Irina from Ruse, a former Pirogov patient.
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