One girl's influence; a memorial of Louise Stockton Andrews

In the late 1920s, a great American visionary named Louise Stockton Andrews was inspired to explore new ways to describe and bring awareness to the suffering of people in third world countries. She was an accomplished artist who also had a deep passion for her patients and their families. In this way, she launched humanitarian efforts that would last a lifetime. She founded a hospital in India that operated out of her own home, with the help of her sister Florence. This hospital became known as The Sanctuary of Hope—the first such institution in the world dedicated to treating mental illness, drug addiction and tuberculosis during the times when these were 'invisible' diseases.