“Schweitzer Fellows focus on underserved” (From Philanthropy Journal)
July 26, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Community Care Clinic in Winston-Salem was not offering any physical therapy to clients.
So Alex Sovall, the first-ever Albert Schweitzer Fellow from Winston-Salem State University, focused his year-long fellowship on creating a free physical-therapy clinic at the Community Care Clinic to serve underserved and uninsured individuals in Forsyth Stokes and Davie counties.
Since his fellowship ended in 2010, the physical-therapy clinic has been sustained by faculty and students at the School of Physical Therapy at Winston-Salem State.
And as part of their Schweitzer fellowships this coming school year, WSSU students Clinton Serrafino and Timothy Serrano will team with a physical-therapy faculty mentor Dora Sole at WSSU to conduct mobile pediatric screenings that assess gross motor skills, health and wellness, dietary status, and vision.
Launched in Boston in 1991, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship made its first expansion in 1994, when it started its North Carolina program in partnership with the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem and other funders, and now operates a total of 13 program sites throughout the U.S.
Named for the German philosopher, theologian and physician who in 1953 at age 78 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, the Schweitzer Fellowship has provided over 400,000 hours of service to the communities it serves.
Each year, the program supports 250 graduate students from top health and human-service schools in the U.S.
Since the North Carolina Schweitzer Fellows Program began, hundreds of Fellows in the state have delivered over 60,000 hours of direct service to vulnerable individuals...
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