Nancy Press

Global Winner

When she traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1987, Nancy Press saw beyond the charming façade of a Spanish colonial city to find grinding poverty and children in desperate need of better education and health care resources. Looking for a way to honor her father's memory, and believing that the only way to start was by taking a first step, Nancy and her husband fortuitously met a local doctor struggling to meet the needs of impoverished young deaf children trapped in a world of silence. And so, Child Aid started with one suitcase full of donated hearing aids and grew to include a school (CORAL), an early detection and outreach program, and a sophisticated clinic, serving thousands of children and adults. With education at the core of their developing vision, Child Aid reached outside Mexican borders to find ways to improve the literacy and thus the life chances of the poorest children across Central America through access to pre-schools with nutrition programs, libraries that teach a love of reading, books, technology, and literacy training for teachers. www.child-aid.org.

 

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