Largest private gift ever to Christian medical missions — at least $20M — given by Rabbi Erica and Mark Gerson, in conjunction with UBS
Press Release: The KAIROS Company for Mark Gerson and African Mission Healthcare
Sept. 22, 2021
NEW YORK — African Mission Healthcare expresses gratitude to Jewish entrepreneur Mark Gerson and his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson, for committing $18 million dollars to support the lifesaving work of African Mission Healthcare (AMH), a nonprofit organization envisaged by Gerson and his friend Dr. Jon Fielder, who become friends 30 years ago while students together at Williams College. African Mission Healthcare partners with mission hospitals to provide quality, compassionate care to patients and to improve healthcare systems throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The Gersons are joined in their generosity by the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), which has agreed to add $2 million to the Gerson’s gift — for a total commitment of $20 million — through the UBS Optimus Foundation. $11 million of this total gift will be available to AMH immediately to expand selected high-impact projects. The remaining $9 million will be made available as a donor match in support of AMH’s Transforming Healthcare Campaign, challenging others to expand their support for AMH and its important work.
The gift will make possible life-saving surgery, important infrastructure (such as power and oxygen), advanced medical training, and the creation of a maternal health network of excellence at more than 15 hospitals across Africa.
“A single gift of this magnitude is virtually unheard of in African clinical medicine. This tremendous generosity will enable care for hundreds of thousands of people who would otherwise be without. It will enable training for thousands of healthcare professionals who will collectively provide care to millions of patients in the generation to come. It will sponsor thousands of life-changing surgeries, adding tens of thousands of years of life to mothers who currently lack access to quality healthcare. It will build the systems and infrastructure to strengthen hospitals now by providing services including oxygen, power and many others. This gift, particularly inclusive of the matching funds, will transform African healthcare — and in so doing give the patients who I and my colleagues in Africa serve the quality of life (and life itself) that can only be provided by outstanding medical care and hospitals,” says AMH Chief Executive Dr. J
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