John asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn (2019)
ask · status: reported back · last event: thanks (2026-08-28) · owner: John and Hank
John's standing request, from April 2019 on, that viewers give monthly or once to Partners In Health's work in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. Repeated for years, it drew thousands of monthly donors, matched by a fund from within Nerdfighteria, and helped raise about $40 million toward the Maternal Center of Excellence in Kono.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John asks would-be donors of $2,000 or more to join the PIH Sierra Leone matching team by email (2019) · Partners In Health maternal health project in Liberia funded by DFTBA profit (2019) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019) · John: at current monthly donation rates, the PIH Sierra Leone project will raise over $15 million in five years (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020) · John: at current rates, matched monthly donations to the PIH Sierra Leone project will raise over $15 million over five years (2020) · John's 2026 visit to Koidu Government Hospital and the Maternal Center of Excellence (2026) · John asks viewers to buy Pizzamas 2022 merch at pizzamas.com before Pizzamas ends (2022)
About: Partners In Health, Sierra Leone, Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-09 | asked | The description asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn. | The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone video description |
| 2019-10-22 | reminder | John asks viewers to donate $5 or $10 a month or more at pih.org/hankandjohn, saying it will make a huge difference. | Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:06:25 |
| 2019-10-25 | result reported | Hank says they have already raised more than half of their initial goal of $240,000 at pih.org/hankandjohn. | Unscripted and Unhinged 00:00:29 |
| 2019-10-25 | reminder | Hank closes by asking viewers to give to Partners In Health or check out the pilots. | Unscripted and Unhinged 00:03:33 |
| 2019-11-07 | result reported | What John misses most is promoting his work: the Partners In Health Sierra Leone fundraising is going amazingly, but he knows there would be more donors and Pizzamas shirt buyers if he posted. | I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. 00:00:40 |
| 2019-11-26 | result reported | John says over 3,000 viewers have joined the brothers in donating to strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system, and they are grateful and excited to watch the progress. | old fashioned parts video 00:02:08 |
| 2020-01-07 | result reported | John says thousands of viewers have become monthly donors to the project at pih.org/hankandjohn; he is grateful, as are people in Sierra Leone, one of whom made him an artwork. | Endings · Beginnings 00:01:02 |
| 2020-01-28 | reminder | John asks viewers to make a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org/hankandjohn, each dollar matched by generous people within Nerdfighteria. | Looking Away (Again) 00:05:16 |
| 2020-02-11 | result reported | In a comment, John says they just passed 5,000 total donors at pih.org/hankandjohn and thanks them. | 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update |
| 2020-07-21 | result reported | The community's response has been incredible: donations have kept going up every month despite everything; John thanks donors and points to pih.org/hankandjohn. | Somebody Once Asked . . . 00:02:52 |
| 2020-07-21 | thanks | John thanks the community for donations that have kept rising every month and points to pih.org/hankandjohn. | Somebody Once Asked . . . 00:02:52 |
| 2020-11-17 | result reported | Thanks to thousands of monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, matched by donors within Nerdfighteria, current rates will raise over $15 million over five years. · also in: I Have the BEST News | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:04:43 |
| 2020-11-17 | reminder | John asks viewers who can to join in donating at pih.org/hankandjohn. | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:07:39 |
| 2020-11-17 | thanks | John thanks the thousands of viewers who are already monthly donors. | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:07:39 |
| 2020-12-29 | reminder | The description asks viewers to become monthly or one-time donors to Partners In Health's work building a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone. | Looking Back at My 2020 Goals video description |
| 2020-12-29 | thanks | John credits the monthly donors for reaching the money needed to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence. | Looking Back at My 2020 Goals 00:02:55 |
| 2021-04-20 | result reported | John assumed the pandemic would delay the MCOE for months or years, but donations grew every month and, with Partners In Health, over $20 million has been raised. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:00:29 |
| 2021-04-20 | thanks | John thanks everyone who worked so hard and gave so generously to reach this moment. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:46 |
| 2021-04-20 | reminder | There is still a funding gap, so John asks those able to donate to the project at PIH.org/hankandjohn. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:46 |
| 2021-08-24 | thanks | The description thanks the many viewers who donated to Partners In Health's work in Sierra Leone on John's birthday, the perfect present. | It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. creator comment |
| 2021-10-01 | thanks | Hank says that because John did that work, they have raised tens of millions of dollars for Partners In Health, and donors, Awesome Socks Club members, Pizzamas buyers and community members were all part of it. | A Lie I Heard this Week 00:02:53 |
| 2021-12-21 | reminder | John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. | NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:02:55 |
| 2022-01-04 | result reported | Since then thousands of viewers have become monthly donors, and hundreds more formed a matching fund so every monthly dollar is matched. | After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:00:58 |
| 2022-01-04 | reminder | John says the most efficient way to support Kono's health system is to become a monthly or one-time donor at pih.org/hankandjohn. | After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:08:00 |
| 2022-01-18 | reminder | In a channel comment John wishes the Leone Stars luck on Thursday and invites viewers to join the thousands who donate monthly to strengthen Sierra Leone's health system at pih.org/hankandjohn. | The Miracle of the Leone Stars |
| 2022-02-22 | reminder | The description asks viewers to support PIH's project in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn and says the P4A donation page goes live at midnight. | On the Death of My Hero video description |
| 2022-05-17 | reminder | John asks viewers who want to donate to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone to give at pih.org/hankandjohn, and thanks everyone for caring. | Reasons Not to Care 00:03:24 |
| 2022-09-13 | reminder | The description invites viewers to join the thousands of nerdfighters who donate monthly to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. | A Million Things at Once video description |
| 2022-09-13 | thanks | John thanks donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, subscribers to the Awesome clubs, and everyone who gives the crisis their attention. | A Million Things at Once 00:03:32 |
| 2022-10-11 | reminder | John says that is what the brothers are trying to do at pih.org/hankandjohn; the description invites one-time or monthly donations for maternal and child health in Sierra Leone. | Most People Have Never Been 20 00:03:24 |
| 2022-10-25 | reminder | The description congratulates Kissy and PIH Sierra Leone and invites viewers to join thousands of monthly donors or give once at pih.org/hankandjohn. | Instantly Debateable video description |
| 2022-11-15 | reminder | John says the most efficient way to donate is pih.org/hankandjohn, but if viewers buy socks and coffee anyway, why not for charity. | 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next 00:03:53 |
| 2023-03-28 | reminder | John asks viewers who can to donate to Partners In Health or other organizations working to make TB history. | My Tuberculosis Reading List 00:03:24 |
| 2023-05-02 | result reported | Helped by the nearly $40 million Nerdfighteria and PIH raised over three and a half years, the MCOE will be the world-class center Kono's mothers and children deserve. | GOOD NEWS 00:01:27 |
| 2023-05-02 | thanks | John tells the thousands of monthly donors, the one-time givers and those who shared the project that this is the change they are making. | GOOD NEWS 00:05:21 |
| 2023-05-02 | reminder | John asks viewers who can to join the monthly donors or make a one-time gift at pih.org/hankandjohn. | GOOD NEWS 00:06:19 |
| 2023-10-17 | result reported | Over the last five years the community has raised over $40 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, which John says is coming along great. | My Next Book 00:01:27 |
| 2024-06-18 | reminder | The description and John's channel comment invite viewers to join the thousands of monthly donors to the Sierra Leone project at pih.org/hankandjohn. | The Tea video description |
| 2024-06-18 | result reported | Thousands of people became monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, giving $5 to $50 a month; they raised several million dollars over five years, all matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. | The Tea 00:00:58 |
| 2024-11-19 | result reported | To do right by the project in a long-term, open-ended way, thousands of people donate every month at pih.org/hankandjohn and dozens more fund a monthly match; John calls this the financial backbone of the maternal and infant care project. | Let's Talk about Money 00:01:00 |
| 2024-11-26 | reminder | The description asks viewers to donate at pih.org/hankandjohn for better maternal care in Kono, or to shop at Good Store. | Good News creator comment |
| 2024-11-26 | thanks | John thanks those who donated at pih.org/hankandjohn, bought from Good Store, or, just as vitally, gave their attention and interest over the last five years. | Good News 00:04:14 |
| 2025-05-13 | thanks | John thanks those who donated directly at pih.org/hankandjohn or bought socks or soap. | I Have the BEST News 00:00:58 |
| 2025-05-13 | reminder | John says support is needed more than ever: donating at pih.org/hankandjohn, buying socks or soap, and also donating attention. | I Have the BEST News 00:05:01 |
| 2025-06-13 | result reported | Hank says about a third of the money was raised by Partners In Health, a third donated directly by the community, one-time or recurring, and the final third mostly Good Store profits. | Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) 00:07:18 |
| 2025-10-01 | thanks | John tells viewers who bought a Pizzamas shirt, donated monthly to Partners In Health or encouraged others to care about maternal mortality that they played a role in this story. | Real Reasons for Hope 00:03:53 |
| 2025-10-31 | reminder | The description invites viewers to learn about the Maternal Center of Excellence and support Partners In Health in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. | We Did It… video description |
| 2025-10-31 | result reported | Hank says the money came from hundreds of thousands of sock sales, dozens of major gifts, a store that donates its profit, and many Nerdfighters giving once or monthly. | We Did It… 00:05:47 |
| 2025-10-31 | thanks | Hank says the real work is done on the ground by wonderful people, and he is grateful to them and to everyone who supported the project, even by watching. | We Did It… 00:07:43 |
| 2025-11-11 | reminder | Asked how best to support Partners In Health, John says by far the best way is a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org, or pih.org/hankandjohn for the MCOE specifically. | John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:02:35 |
| 2026-02-20 | reminder | The description asks viewers for a one-time or monthly donation to keep the MCOE funded, staffed and training healthcare workers, at act.pih.org/hankandjohn. | What We Actually Did. video description |
| 2026-02-20 | result reported | Hank says a huge amount of the money came from asking people to become small monthly donors to Partners In Health, which thousands did. | What We Actually Did. 00:02:55 |
| 2026-02-24 | reminder | John says they need viewers' support at pih.org/hankandjohn, just as five years ago. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:04:22 |
| 2026-02-24 | thanks | Thanking Hank and everyone who took the risk, John says 13 babies were born on the MCOE's very first day. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:04:52 |
| 2026-04-28 | reminder | The description asks viewers to support the project directly at pih.org/hankandjohn or through Good Store. | What I Can't Show You video description |
| 2026-05-05 | result reported | In Sierra Leone last week (week of 27 April 2026) John kept thinking of Hank and the thousands who donate monthly at pih.org/hankandjohn, most of whom have never been there. | Noted Brother Hank Green 00:02:14 |
| 2026-08-25 | reminder | The description asks viewers to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at pih.org/hankandjohn. | The Great Thing about Infectious Disease video description |
| 2026-08-28 | reminder | The description invites viewers to learn about the brothers' project to help Partners In Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. | Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill video description |
| 2026-08-28 | thanks | Hank thanks everyone who has supported Partners In Health or Save the Children over the years; much good has been done. | Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill 00:09:44 |
What is said about it
12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The MCOE, like the whole hospital, will be owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government, staffed almost entirely by Sierra Leonean health workers and largely funded by the government. — 00:06:40
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John recommends reading Partners In Health Sierra Leone's new annual report, or watching a video on improved maternal and child care at Koidu Government Hospital and what the Maternal Center of Excellence will mean. — 00:02:26
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Greeting Hank from the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John shows his crying, sweaty face as it sinks in how many lives the community is helping. — 00:00:00
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The Maternal Center of Excellence is a 48,000-square-foot maternal and infant care center being built in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — announcement: John: To support the MCOE and strengthen Kono's health system over the next few years, the project still needs to raise just over $10 million (a 'paltry sum', he jokes). — 00:05:50
- 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH needed to raise over $25 million before breaking ground, and building and running the hospital for a few years costs around $50 million. — 00:00:29
- 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the $6.5 million was far from enough to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Kono district: $20 million was needed just to break ground. — 00:00:29
- 2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — ask: John says the MCOE needs ongoing support because its funding needs do not end when construction is complete. — 00:04:02
- 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE expands the maternity ward and special care baby unit from 48 to 120 beds, including the nation's first neonatal ICU, with reliable electricity, piped oxygen and surgical suites. — 00:07:14
- 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the MCOE was a different risk: their own money was the smallest part; they risked the money of thousands of people who trusted them. — 00:02:26
- 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the man meant the only upside was distant people's lives improving while failure would make him look a fool, and on that level the MCOE did have an unfavorable risk profile. — 00:03:53
- 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the bet might still go sideways: this is not the end of the MCOE's story but the very beginning. (hedged) — 00:04:22