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Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) was created in 2001 in response to the HIV crisis in western Kenya. It is built on a partnership between Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and the Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya, and a consortium of North American academic health centers, led by Indiana University. The partners joined forces to create one of Africa's largest, most comprehensive and effective HIV/AIDS management and control systems. AMPATH is a formal partner with the United States government through a $75 million grant from USAID and has continually expanded its successful HIV approach to into a more comprehensive primary health care system. With a tri-partite mission of care, education, and research, AMPATH provides healthcare services to a population of 3.5 million people in western Kenya and focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of the entire population-leaving no one behind.

GREENACTION'S MISSION IS TO MOBILIZE COMMUNITY POWER TO WIN VICTORIES THAT CHANGE GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE POLICIES AND PRACTICES TO PROTECT HEALTH AND PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. Geographic areas served: Urban, rural and indigenous communities across California and the United States.

Founded in 1976, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) engages youth and adult community members as leaders in promoting safe, secure jobs and healthy communities throughout eastern Massachusetts. Through education, leadership development and coalition-building, youth and adults gain the skills and support to address dangerous work conditions and prevent work-related diseases and disabilities. MassCOSH has a special focus on immigrants and other lower-income adults, and young people of color who often work in jobs that are the most unsafe and unhealthy.

Pope Francis Children's Home and School, Mercy to the Poor,located in Ghana West Africa is an organization with its members being passionately invested in the total well-being of the children. Those living and working with the children will have a total commitment to protect, to care,to nurture,and to create an academic environment of learning,providing a Gospel-driven atmosphere so that the children knows God loves them.PFCHS's goals include encouraging strong,independent minded young people who will be prepared to enter the adult world and succeed in family life,work life,and have a strong spiritual foundation.PFCHS locally and internationally will develop a network of individuals and organizations of goodwill who are willing and ready to help the mission of serving the underserved children of the Volta Region.

To educate women and girls in Nigeria about good health, to empower them with different skills acquisition and support them financially to have a good lifestyle. To build health care centers for pregnant women and destitute homes to affect women lives in positive ways. To provide good foods to the poorest communities and also educate them on advantages for eating healthy foods. And advantages for going to health centers for health care and vaccines for children. To advocate for free healthcare, free vaccines and free medicines for girls, women and children to reduce death rate and to keep them alive. To advocate that pregnant women should be given a free medical attention till after delivery of their babies.

To promote and implement a social development programme for the Anglican Church in Southern Africa for the improvement of the Spiritual, Physical and Emotional Well Being of the Poor and Oppressed People of Africa on a non-denominational basis. Our Vision is to empower communities through an integral Mission including Health, Opportunity, Partnership, and Employment. Our Strategic Objectives are to: -- Understand the needs of the communities -- Develop capacity of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to respond to the needs -- Create a support mechanism for life-long community development. Our Programmatic Focus going forward include: -- Community Sustainability: Creating a sustainable agenda for the communities we work with. -- Food Security: Ensuring equitable production distribution and sharing or resources for community sustenance. -- Public Policy: Building societies where individuals live and interact with their environment and one another by fulfilling their responsibilities as active citizens. -- Socio-Economic Justice: Mutual respect of Human dignity, rights, and taking responsibility towards a creation of a holistic, comprehensive response that aims to repair, restore and balance the relationship between human being and the environment.

Vision: We seek societies where all communities enjoy healthy, secure, productive lives and resilient livelihoods Mission: Empowering vulnerable communities to achieve healthy wellbeing, sustainable livelihoods and access social justice. Through crisis risk reduction and humanitarian response, capacity building, advocacy, research and direct service provision. Core Values: Transparency and Accountability. Demonstrated in openness, proper documentation and transparency in managing programs Innovation - innovatively program our activities to meet the needs of the communities that contribute to the international and national development goals and donor funds. Gender Equality and Diversity -reflected in fairness in all our dealings and provision of equal opportunity to both women and male and all those associated with PACHEDO. Integrity. Legal and ethical integrity in outlook and daily performance of all those delivering PACHEDO goals. Zero Tolerance to Corruption -demonstrated through whistle blowing policy.

Hispanic Federation (HF) is the nation's premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. With a strong foothold in New York, Washington D.C. and states throughout the eastern corridor of the United States including Florida, HF works to uplift millions of Hispanic children, youth and families locally and nationally through the strengthening of Latino nonprofits, public policy advocacy and a portfolio of innovative community programs. Founded in 1990, HF has used its network of Hispanic nonprofits and close linkages with grass roots leaders, media and policymakers to empower and advance the interests of the Hispanic community. HF has gained national recognition and prominence for its work in the areas of education, health, philanthropy, immigration, economic empowerment civic engagement & the environment.