About Project HOPE
Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere ) was founded in 1958 by William Walsh, M.D. for the soul purpose of helping people help themselves. Project HOPE is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1958 to improve the health services to medically underserved people throughout the world, by providing approximately $100 million worth of resources to between 20-30 countries each year.

It is Project HOPE's mission to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs, conducting health policy research, and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need; thereby contributing to human dignity, promoting international understanding, and enhancing social and economic development. The essence of Project HOPE is teaching; the basis is partnership.

Phi Mu adopted Project HOPE as their national philanthropy in 1963, as it teaches the latest in American health sciences in developing countries. Project HOPE sponsored the S.S.HOPE, the world's first peacetime hospital ship. From 1960 to 1974 the S.S. HOPE carried a staff of American doctors and nurses to 11 countries, where they were able to train hundreds of people new knowledge and skills.

Visit the Project HOPE website @ www.projecthope.org/index.html