Dr. Ernest Rehnke’s proud daughter, Elizabeth Rehnke received an award on her father’s behalf. Being a dedicated MD, he received Distinguished Surgeons Award in the year of 1999 on 13th February. He was awarded for his sacrifice and compromises that he had to make in order to help and care the people of the underprivileged countries. He and his daughter went on for several tours to different disadvantaged regions.
She was only an 11 year old kid, when she first walked with her dad to the podium and talked about her feelings towards her father’s well deeds. She expressed how she feels when she gets to help those poor and underprivileged people and take care of them. She appreciated the honour of being awarded and also expressed that how proud she feels when she goes on this kind of medical missions.
Liz Rehnke and her father went on to five different medical missions including one mission in Ecuador, Haiti and Honduras and two in Guatemala. Not only that, in the interest of the culture of different regions and due to her knack towards travelling, she always accompanied her dad to various deprived countries and helped the poor citizens of that nation.
She also travelled to Cambodia, Kenya, Vietnam and many more underdeveloped countries, where illiteracy, epidemics and famines are common thing and poverty was widespread. In order to make their country and the citizens’ better human beings in every possible way, Elizabeth Rehnke influenced and convinced many philanthropists and NGOs to make nursing homes and schools. She aided financially to provide care and recovery from injury for free and make people literate by teaching them for free.
In the holidays, unlike every other small girl instead of enjoying her vacations, she used to travel with her father and help those poor people and take care of them. Liz Rehnke has a strong wish that more and more professionals will come up with a helping hand for people, who need aid in the deserted continents.
The works she does along with her father is not at all a piece of cake and had to cross many hurdles so as to provide help to the people with desperate needs. They suffer from malnutrition, hygiene issues, poor health and sometimes life threatening diseases. Liz’s work is brought to the notice of many people and they too take part in the programs to provide all possible assistance.