• Thibodeau graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1997.
  
• He averaged 55 hours a week while working as a lawyer.
  
• An inner-city priest encouraged Thibodeau to look into charitable work.
  
• Mano a Mano Medical Resources (Spanish for "hand to hand") was founded on the simple proposition that medical inventory that would otherwise be wasted should be routed to places where it can literally mean the difference between life and death.
  
• The group's mission is to improve the medical and economic health of impoverished Bolivians by increasing the capacity of health care providers and communities to address their medical, community development and educational needs.
  
• Thibodeau lived on $45 a month while in Bolivia delivering medical supplies from Minnesota physicians.
  
• He worked with boys as young as four and as old as 14 at the orphanage.
  
• Thibodeau raised $15,000, and secured a $100,000 endowment to keep the "dream fund" alive.

Mano a Mano Medical Resources
774 Sibley Memorial Highway
Mendota Heights, MN 55118
651-457-3141
www.manoamano.org