June 8, 2005 | More News

Ranee and Peter Selufsky, two of the WMC nurse volunteers with recent Project HOPE humanitarian aid missions to South Asia, were thanked personally by President Bush on May 25 at the White House. Ranee and Peter received the President’s Volunteer Service Award during an event honoring volunteers and Asian Pacific Heritage Month. “It was a great experience,” Ranee reports of the unexpected invitation to Pennsylvania Avenue and the opportunity to meet with President Bush and the Indonesian president. But the real blessing for Ranee, who is a native of Malaysia, was the medical relief they helped deliver in the wake of the devastating tsunami and earthquake. “These people are so broken-hearted,” she recalls. “I went there to minister to them, support them, uplift them, and spread the word of God.” Ranee works in AM Admissions; Peter in the Pulmonary Intensive Care Unit.