By Wendy Schmidt, Photo: Nadia Todres/The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 28, 2022
With the death last week of Paul Farmer, the world lost a living saint.
Farmer, who founded Partners in Health and provided health care and hope to impoverished people around the world, inspired our approach to philanthropy at the Schmidt Family Foundation in fundamental ways. His philosophy of what he called “accompaniment” — or the practice of literally accompanying those we are trying to help on their journey — should be a guiding principle for all of us in the field.
Farmer was not a philanthropist, but as a true lover of humanity, he embodied the meaning of the word.
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