MPO "Works" For Macedonia
Works for Macedonia is the MPO's program for charitable and humanitarian work in Macedonia. Funded by donations to The Gotse Delcheff Fund and direct donations of time, goods, and materials from volunteers and Macedonian and non-Macedonian sources, the MPO's Works for Macedonia Program allows the MPO to channel its charitable fund raising efforts into results for those in need of humanitarian assistance in Macedonia.
Over the years, the MPO has engaged in countless charitable and humanitarian endeavors for the Macedonian people throughout historical Macedonia and in the Republic of Macedonia. In recent years, some of these activities include the following.
- In October 2002, the MPO partnered with Providence Hospital of Southfield Michigan to donate cardiac ultra sound equipment to the Clinic of Cardiology in Skopje, Macedonia. This project brought together the MPO, Providence Hospital, Ascension Healthcare System, Hewlett Packard, the Macedonian Embassy to the United States of America, the Embassy of the United States of America to the Republic of Macedonia, and the Macedonian Agency of Emigration all of which worked together to make this donation and the transport of the equipment to Skopje possible.
- In September 2004, the MPO announced that in cooperation with the Macedonian Competitiveness Agency, a division of the United Stated Agency for International Development, it was donating medical equipment to the Institute for Respiratory Disease in Children ("IRDC") located in Skopje. The MPO and the IRDC also agreed to a long-term relationship of support and networking between physicians at the IRDC and physicians and hospitals in the United States and Canada.
- In 2004 and 2005, MPO National Vice President for the United States, Vladimir Atseff, and his wife Stephanie Atseff partnered with their local church to raise funds for the purchase of schoolbooks for needy children in the Republic of Macedonia. These efforts have proven immensely successful with significant contributions coming from the MPO, MPO Chapters, and MPO Individual Members.
- In June 2006, the MPO donated a pulse oxymeter unit to the Institute for Respiratory Diseases in Children ("IRDC") in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. The pulse oxymeter allows physicians at the Institute to safely monitor their young patients and thereby enabling them to administer general anesthesia to children undergoing treatment. Before the donation of the pulse oxymeter unit, over 100 children a year had to endure the pain of a bronchoscopy without general anesthesia. The MPO worked with Makedonka Dimitrova of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Dr. Nada Uzonova of the IRDC to complete this project.