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To improve health outcomes for the most underserved in sub-Saharan Africa.
We want poor mothers, infants, and children, wherever they live in Africa, to have access to respectful, high quality, affordable or free healthcare.
The Gould Family Foundation was founded in 2007 by John & Debra Gould to help support their humanitarian initiatives. In June 2014, the foundation started the Fund for Maternal Newborn Health Clinics to improve health outcomes for poor mothers, infants & children.
Since 1997, John Gould and the Gould family have helped the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur build a school in Enugu, Nigeria, upgrade hospitals and clinics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and establish Small Family Farm programs in northwest Peru and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Sisters serve the “poorest of the poor in the most desperate of places” and they do so with great kindness and effectiveness despite limited resources and extremely challenging conditions. We are honored to support their great work (www.sndden.org).
In 2014, the Gould Family Foundation began our work by delivering Maternal Newborn Health PODS to qualified, grassroots health NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, we started a pilot project with the Segal Family Foundation that led to a partnership where almost all of our partners are also Segal Family Foundation partners. We added Project CURE and Build Health International as medical equipment procurement partners in 2016 - improving the quality and scope of the equipment that we deliver. Today, we procure all new equipment for our partners. In 2018, the wonderful folks at DAK Australia offered to provide important biomedical products like oxygen concentrators, sterilizers, ultrasounds and patient monitors, free of charge, to many of our partners. DAK Australia is also co-funding our new biomedical team expansion.
We established our biomedical program in March 2017 with the hiring of our biomedical engineer, Ms. Deborah Aloyo, who is now our Director of Biomedical Programs. We have since added biomedical engineers, technicians or apprentices in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, the D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Togo, and Tanzania. Debbie and her team perform facility and staff assessments, determine the appropriate deliverables, install the equipment, train users and establish biomedical programs for each partner.
In 2017, we and our partners identified Clinical Training and Assessment as a critical need. Since 2017, we have provided free training for nurse-midwives in critical skills like neonatal resuscitation, post-partum hemorrhage techniques and the assessment of newborns. Our curriculum is based on the widely accepted Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive protocols from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Gould Family Foundation Nurse Mentors train, assess, and importantly, provide on-site, hands-on training and mentoring to our partners. We also provide training to help our partners improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and to improve pediatric care. The increase in clinical skills from this program is significant - baseline assessments average 45-55%, post training assessments now average 90% +.
John has over 30 years of successful experience in high technology sales, marketing and management. He served as VP Sales & Marketing for a high technology start-up that went public during his tenure and was owner and President of an international software distribution company. He has also managed international and domestic operations for two large, publicly held software companies and has extensive international business experience. John is currently Executive Director of the Gould Family Foundation.
