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Published November 28, 2020

Since 2007, Last Mile Health has worked with national health systems and local partners to equip rural locations around the world with community health workers and to improve access to and quality of care in the most hard to reach areas. In addition to their work on the ground, LMH runs a Community Health Academy that trains health workers to support their local areas with high-quality health education. LMH makes health systems stronger and more sustainable, and advocates for best practices in community health by prioritizing the unique needs of those in the communities they empower.

Published November 13, 2020

The Tanzanian Children’s Fund (TCF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based out of Boston. In 2003, TCF began pursuing an ambitious dream of empowering a community of 10,000 to find a path out of poverty.

Published October 13, 2020

The first case of COVID-19 in Togo was recorded on March 11, 2020. Since then, the government of Togo has responded quickly. As a result of the quick response, the spread of COVID-19 has been slow; however, cases continue to rise as they appear outside of the capital, where the health system is weaker. Integrate Health has worked closely with the government to support their response.

Published September 22, 2020

What do you do when every passion feels worth pursuing? How do you decide when making any career decision feels like a betrayal of every option you turned down?

Published September 8, 2020

Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters,”) raises children, supports families, and transforms lives in nine countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean including Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. NPH provides a safe home, food, clothing, education, and healthcare to over 6,100 vulnerable, disadvantaged, and at-risk children. NPH community outreach programs provided over 107,000 services in 2019.

Published August 18, 2020

Growing up outside of a small village on a self-sufficient [...]

Published August 4, 2020

Care 2 Communities (C2C) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in Boston with a growing network of seven community clinics in the North and Northeast Departments of Haiti.

Published July 17, 2020

Melissa Bornico spoke with Mike Perez, the CEO of Open Learning Exchange, to get his perspective on how learning and education have been impacted by COVID-19. What follows is a poignant illustration of his organization’s effort to empower communities before and through a global health emergency, a meaningful outlook on his vision for learning, and an example of the resiliency that people can have when equipped with their own actualized potential.

Published June 21, 2020

Build Health International is a Beverly based Global Health organization that creates high quality infrastructure for healthcare delivery systems in low resource regions around the world. Read more about how the organization has responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic through creating open access resources and helping partner organizations with their most imminent structural needs.

Published June 8, 2020

Systemic racism is an affront and an attack on global [...]