2009.04.12: April 12, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Awards: Wooster Daily Record: CAMO founder Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg is 2009 ATHENA award recipient
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2009.04.12: April 12, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: Awards: Wooster Daily Record: CAMO founder Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg is 2009 ATHENA award recipient
CAMO founder Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg is 2009 ATHENA award recipient
Tschiegg, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orrville-based Central American Medical Outreach, Inc. (CAMO) has been named the 2009 recipient of the prestigious ATHENA Award. "I'm just a farm girl from Orrville, Ohio," Tschiegg said, who in a phone interview while working in Honduras, admitted she was surprised and had no idea she was even nominated for the award. "I went to the Peace Corps and found my niche and now I'm doing what I love. I feel I am doing what I have been called to do. It's nice to get an award." Tschiegg, who will be in Honduras until the end of the month, said CAMO is currently working on many projects there, including opening X-ray and endoscopy departments, as well as starting the construction of a woman's shelter. The ATHENA Award was created through the Chamber of Commerce in Lansing, Mich., in 1982 by Martha Mayhood Mertz. Its goal is to bring into focus professional and business women and to encourage the opening of leadership opportunities for women within the chamber and workplaces.
CAMO founder Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg is 2009 ATHENA award recipient
CAMO founder Kathy Tschiegg is 2009 ATHENA award recipient
April 12, 2009
By LYDIA GEHRING
Living Editor
WOOSTER -- Kathy Tschiegg's commitment to the people of Honduras all started with a two-year responsibility to the Peace Corps in 1979. Since then, she has devoted much of her life to doing what she can to make sure the people there get the medical care they need to live healthy lives.
Tschiegg, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orrville-based Central American Medical Outreach, Inc. (CAMO) has been named the 2009 recipient of the prestigious ATHENA Award.
"I'm just a farm girl from Orrville, Ohio," Tschiegg said, who in a phone interview while working in Honduras, admitted she was surprised and had no idea she was even nominated for the award. "I went to the Peace Corps and found my niche and now I'm doing what I love. I feel I am doing what I have been called to do. It's nice to get an award."
Tschiegg, who will be in Honduras until the end of the month, said CAMO is currently working on many projects there, including opening X-ray and endoscopy departments, as well as starting the construction of a woman's shelter.
The ATHENA Award was created through the Chamber of Commerce in Lansing, Mich., in 1982 by Martha Mayhood Mertz. Its goal is to bring into focus professional and business women and to encourage the opening of leadership opportunities for women within the chamber and workplaces.
In his nomination of Tschiegg, David Noble, president of the Donald and Alice Noble Foundation, Inc., said her commitment to women "far exceeds Wooster, Ohio" and that she has built, "at one time single-handedly," an international organization that depends heavily on the talents of women.
Upon finding out Tschiegg had won, Noble said he thought it was "tremendous."
"It would be hard to imagine someone more deserving than Kathy," he said. "She has done more good for more people than any other person I know. What she has managed to accomplish with CAMO is simply amazing. ... There's a lot of people who I think would second the nomination. She's the one who has really lived the dream of healing other people."
Kathi Bond, membership chairwoman of Wayne County Women's Network, the major sponsor of ATHENA, said Tschiegg exemplifies what the award is all about.
"Athena was the goddess of wisdom and skill," Bond said. "Kathy exhibits both of these attributes. She has devoted her life
to helping women and is an
example of what one woman can accomplish to improve the lives of others. She is a role model of strength, assertiveness and compassion for women."
Tschiegg said it's her belief in fighting for the rights of the poor that has led to her ultimate efforts in Honduras.
"I do what I can do to make the world a better place and try to do it professionally at the best level I possibly can," she said. "Something I feel so passionately about is people not dying because they don't have simple things ... I believe in fighting for the rights of the poor."
Other sponsors of the ATHENA Award are Shisler's Cheese, Performance Pontiac and The Daily Record.
Tschiegg will be honored during a dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. on May 12 at the tented patio of The Wooster Inn. Open to the public, the event is $45 a person. For reservations, contact Bond at 330-683-3375 or e-mail KATHICRYO@aol.com.
Living editor Lydia Gehring can be reached at 330-287-1655 or e-mail living@the-daily-record.com.
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