On Saturday, November 4th, 2017, steps from the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., join the Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma, and Anaesthesia Care (the G4 Alliance) at our first annual gala and silent auction benefit at House of Sweden, home to the Swedish and Icelandic Embassies. This inaugural event, themed “A Night of Illumination: Igniting Change for the Neglected Surgical Patient”, will raise critical funds to support the mission of the G4 Alliance and cast light on the 5 billion people currently living worldwide without access to life-saving surgical and anaesthesia care.
In addition to raising awareness around global surgical inequity, the Illumination Gala will celebrate the winners of the first-ever G4 Collaboration Prize, sponsored by the Henry Family Advised Fund, and preview their grant-winning project The G4 Empowerment Database, a platform that will provide a single open-source registry of surgical resources.
“This gala will give us an opportunity to celebrate innovative, collaborative projects like the G4 Empowerment Database and to highlight both the scale of global surgical inequity and the vital work being done to close this gap,” says Brendan Allen, Executive Director of the G4 Alliance. “Surgical and anaesthesia care are urgent global priorities, and we must all collaborate to address these needs.”
The evening’s festivities are set to begin at 6:30 pm with a cocktail hour, silent auction, raffle, and entertainment followed by a seated dinner featuring esteemed speakers and an awards ceremony. The planning committee for this event is chaired by Ambassador Neil Parsan, Chair of the G4 Alliance Board of Directors, and Mrs. Tara Parsan. Attendees will include supporters from the D.C. area, local celebrities, country representatives, and international dignitaries.
The G4 Alliance is an advocacy coalition of over 80 member organizations working in more than 160 countries that are dedicated to increasing access to safe, timely and affordable surgical and anaesthesia care for the estimated 5 billion neglected surgical patients currently living around the world.