At Saha Global, our mission is to bring clean water to small rural villages in Northern Ghana. We do this by setting up entrepreneurial women with community-scale clean drinking water businesses that use simple, locally available materials and methods. Our organization was born in the Boston area as part of a master’s thesis project at MIT in 2008.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Exchange Lab (TEL) is a 501(C)(3) corporation based in Cambridge, MA. TEL is
dedicated to bringing communities out of poverty by driving the adoption of
innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions that improve the lives of
the least economically advantaged members of society around the world.