11/29/2025
Please support the International Rehabilitation Forum!
Dear friends and colleagues,
This giving season please support my team at International Rehabilitation Forum (IRF). At a time when our government has pulled back from global aid, this organization I founded is called on to do more - and we’re succeeding! But we need your help.
Before the IRF, sub-Saharan Africa had no rehabilitation doctors for problems ranging from spinal cord paralysis to war amputation to kids with disability to athletic injuries. This year in Morocco we helped lead the first ever World Congress for Rehabilitation Medicine on the African continent. While I was in South Africa our graduates formed the first national Rehabilitation Medicine society in sub-Saharan Africa. Our trainees now lead Ghana’s Olympic sports medicine program and leprosy hospital, Ethiopia’s national amputee hospital, Cameroon’s national strategy and more.
This little Vermont not-for-profit has become a formal advisor to the World Health Organization and the International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. We mentor dozens of Americans who want to build a career helping overseas, and support leaders in other countries from Nepal to Ukraine. We’re a 501-c-3 charity, 100% volunteers and 100% of the money we receive goes to our efforts.
America has reached out to help others over 200 years. As our government steps away from this priority, the citizens need to pick up the challenge. You can sustain our global mission through a non-government team you know personally. Please write a check, send a Paypal or talk to me about how you can help in the next year.
Thank you and happy holidays,
Andy
Andrew J. Haig, MD
President, the International Rehabilitation Forum
Professor Emeritus, the University of Michigan
The International Rehabilitation Forum
c/o Haig Physical Medicine PLC
1590 S. US Hwy 7, suite 1
Middlebury, VT. 05753
www.rehabforum.org
