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JANUARY 2013 Volume 9, no. 1
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Fit & Lean in 2013
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Townie Pride Alive in Uganda!
Engineer John Carnavale - EPHS 2000 Grad
By Bob Rodericks Since graduating from East Providence High in 2000, John Carnavale has been busy changing the world brick by brick. Carnavale was a star three sport athlete at EPHS and very bright. He received an engineering degree from the prestigious Worcester Polytechnic Institute and accepted a job at Raytheon where he now works in San Diego, California. He doesn’t look like your stereotypical mechanical engineer, with his long dreadlocks but to say that Carnavale is a special person is a major understatement to his friends and classmates. During a solo humanitarian trip to Uganda in 2009, John witnessed first-hand how the lack of basic medical care in the third world could effortlessly turn a preventable disease into a childhood killer. Carnavale contracted an aggressive strand of malaria. While sick with the virus, he made the promise to a Ugandan friend of returning to the US, saving his own money he made an as engineer, and then returning to Uganda to build a hospital for those in need. A year later he returned to Uganda to build The Donna Carnevale Medical Center, named after his mother “as a tribute to her unselfish lifestyle,” Carnavale told supporters at a December fundraiser in Providence. Carnavale, and a team of volunteers he has assembled from all over the nation, came home to East Providence for the holidays. “Not only is this a time to visit with my family and friends at Christmas, but an opportunity to raise money for my Ugandan kids,” Carnavale told hundreds of friends and supporters at the Whiskey Republic on December 19th. continued on page 7...
John Carnavale, changing the world, brick by brick.