Deo From Tracy Kidder’s Book “Strength In What Remains” Is Speaking at Pangea’s 10th Annniversary Celebration on 11/15!

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Deogratias (Deo) Niyizonkiza, the visionary founder and CEO of Village Health Works,  will be the featured speaker at Pangea’s upcoming 10th anniversary celebration to be held Friday, November 15 from 6-9 pm. Deo will share his own amazing story as a young man in medical school surviving a massacre at the Burundi hospital where he was an intern, then escaping to New York homeless and unable to speak English. The people he meets along this journey, inspire him to complete his college degree at Columbia and then attend Harvard School of Public Health where he meets Dr. Paul Farmer. In 2006 Deo returned to his village in southern Burundi to inspire the community to build a community health center.  His success in building an entirely community-driven health and development organization is unprecedented and unique among NGOs.

As Ansel Herz, posted in Humanosphere about Deo last fall,  “He’s without question one of the most inspiring people I’ve met this year.”

Deo’s extraordinary story is told in Tracy Kidder’s, New York Times Bestseller,  Strength in What Remains,  Deo is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award, the 2013 People to People International’s Eisenhower Medallion Award, a 2013 honorary degree from Williams College, the 2012 International Medal Award of St. John’s University, and the 2010 Women Refugee Commission’s Voices of Courage Award.

Pangea’s 10th Anniversary Party will take place on November 15, 2013 at the Impact Hub  Seattle  in Pioneer Square starting at 6:00pm with festive food and drinks followed by a tribute to Pangea’s 10 years of global grant making, thoughts from Pangea member Lisa Norton’s recently published book, How to Be a Global Non-Profit, and our featured speaker Deogratias Niyizonkiza. There is no charge for this event and it is open anyone interested with an rsvp.

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