Compassion Award
In order to reward compassion for others, we created The Forgotten International Compassion Award. The award reads, For Demonstrating Compassion Toward Those Who Might Have Otherwise Been Forgotten.
Meet Our Compassion Award Winners
We are proud to make Jerry and Beth Mohan our 2025 Compassion Award winners. Using some of the money that Jerry’s brother had left them in his will, Jerry and Beth created the Dr. Eugene P. Mohan Medical Assistance Fund to help people around the world receive needed medical care and education, so that they, in honor of Jerry’s brother, could at least have a chance to live a long and healthy life.
To date, Jerry and Beth have funded four medical clinics and paid for medical scholarships for aspiring doctors and nursing students, as well as purchased needed medications, medical equipment and food for those in need. They have also paid medical bills for those who could not afford escalating costs of medical care around the world as well as in the United States.
Both Jerry and Beth have inspired many who have come to help us in our work, and are examples of people we have met who realize that once you have all you need, the rest can always be put to good use in the service of others.
The 2023 Compassion Award went to Bobba Venkatadri, a member of TFI’s Board of Directors for many years and an overall compassionate, kind, and driven individual whose work in impoverished communities in India has and continues to touch countless lives.
Bobba is pictured here (center) at our 15th Anniversary party with TFI President Tom Nazario (left) and TFI Board Chair Debra Fischer (right).
The 2019 Compassion Award (Adult) went to three recipients: Herve Duteil, Marie-Laure de Bailliencourt, and Pierre-Emmanuel Boyer. They all work at the BNP Paribas Bank in New York and together were responsible for raising over $400,000 from the bank for TFI’s work. Everything they did, they didn’t have to do, but did it anyway.
The 2018 Compassion Award (Youth) went to Zachary Wong for founding Water in Nepal, an organization that works on water filtration and infrastructure projects benefitting Nepalese communities. This is work he started while still a high school student and continues to work on today.
The 2017 Compassion Award (Adult) went to Diane and Lee Brandenburg for establishing our Children’s Fund, which is named in honor of their late son Eric, and for helping thousands of families and children in their local community over the course of many years. Truly a humble couple who have always been loving and accepting of all they have met.
The 2017 Compassion Award (Youth) went to Manon Courban and Lucy Wang for their work through the Atlas Club at Riverside High School in Greer, South Carolina. Over four years, they supported impoverished school children in India, Thailand, Kenya, Peru, and Cambodia.
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