Rick Hodes
Long Island, NY
http://rick
hodes.org
WHEN DR. RICK HODES went
to Ethiopia in 1990 to care for
Jews preparing to emigrate to
Israel, he did not realize that
he had finally come home, far
from his birthplace on Long
Island, New York.
While there, Hodes started
volunteering at Mother Teresa’s
Mission in Addis Ababa. Twenty
This is a soul
years later, he is still there, sav-
ing thousands of lives of some
of the most destitute people
on earth. Young patients come
to him with horrendous
tumors, heart disease and
backs severely deformed by
tuberculosis of the spine or
scoliosis. He is often the first
doctor these kids have ever
seen. They come in sick and
frightened; they leave hopeful
and smiling.
Knowledge is strength
IN 1998, 20-YEAR-OLD
Lynn Bozof (center)
STEVE MACK
COURTESY BINAYTARA FOUNDATION
