Project HOPE

Identifiable to many by the S.S. HOPE, the world's first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health care education programs on 5 continents including North America. In 1958, the People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. and its principal activity, Project HOPE was founded by William B. Walsh, M.D. The mission of the organization is reflected in the name Health Opportunities for People Everywhere and in a very simple philosophy: Go only where invited and help people help themselves.