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MAITS is an international disability charity whose mission is to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people with developmental disabilities and the lives of their families, through better access to and quality of health and education services and support. We provide education, training and support for those working with and caring for persons with developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism and global learning disabilities to ensure they are able to achieve their full potential in a way that is sustainable and inclusive. We support people with disabilities in the following ways: The training of healthcare and education professionals, community workers, families and carers- to better understand their conditions and build their skills and knowledge to ensure persons with disabilities have better access to and improved quality of services. The development of training materials and resources on disability- the training materials are tested out and adapted to the local context, and when needed, translated into the local language, to ensure high quality care for those with disabilities. Linking organisations that need training with those who are able to provide it- through our website and through our database of 208 volunteer therapists and educators. In addition to facilitating face-to-face training, MAITS has an ongoing programme of resource development, designing tools that assist in the support and inclusion of individuals with particular needs, whether it be at home, school, in healthcare provisions or elsewhere in the community, in low-resource settings. We have a small team of specialists who create resources and we connect those looking for training with those who can provide it. Our mission is to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people with developmental disabilities and the lives of their families, through better access to and quality of health and education services and support.

Kardias was founded in 2000 with the concern to improve the quality of comprehensive care of children with congenital heart disease, led by Dr. Alexis Palacios Macedo, Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgeon. Dr. Palacios Macedo had trained as a Fellow of Dr. Charles Fraser in Texas Children's Hospital, and wanted to replicate the best practices he learned back to Mexico. He started as chief of surgeon in the Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Program of the National Institute of Pediatrics (INP). Here he became keenly aware of all the lags and needs that the hospital needed in order to improve the reach and outcomes. This is when Kardias was born, to help fundraise to fill the gap between what was available and what we needed to try and replicate best practices around the world. Understanding the concept of a dedicated team, the same group of specialized doctors working together all the time, was a mayor and disruptive innovation that Dr. Palacios Macedo started to replicate. Along the same line the need for a cardiovascular intensive care unit, against the concept of a pediatric intensive care unit, was also a mayor accomplishment. In 2003, in collaboration with the "Heart Center" of Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) began the Training and Development Program to health professionals of the division of Cardiovascular Surgery of the INP. Over the years, the cardiovascular division of the INP has been strengthened with infrastructure and training. In 2009, the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (UCICV) of this institute was inaugurated, significantly improving the care of patients with congenital heart disease who undergo surgery. However the program hit a wall in terms of improvement in outcomes in mortality rates, because of the limitations and bureocracy in INP. Because of this we designed an inovative program with the best Mexican private hospital, ABC. In Mexico it is very difficult, and not comun to have a high speciality division in a private hospital, because the volume of patients can be found only in public sector. It is estimated that only 5%-7% of population has private insurance. This is were Kardias contributes, to channel and pay for patients from a vulnerable population, in the private hospital. The benefits of this collaboration are twofold. Offering patients from without resources the best posible care they can receive. And allowing the ABC hospital have a Heart Center, so that in Mexico we can offer the best care available with world wide standards. The collaboration agreement with the ABC Medical Center, in 2012, it initiated a pediatric cardiovascular surgery program to care for vulnerable patients from the INP and the government hospitals of Mexico City. Today, Kardias has performed a total of 2789 surgeries, of which 396 were carried out in the ABC and 2393 in the INP.

To prevent child malnourishment and its consequences through the formation of the parents or tutors and to recover the children that suffer it through the manufacture and supply of nutritional complements and nutritional follow up in order to stimulate a well-nourished childhood since the prenatal stage.

Crecemos DIJO is a community base organization that offers holistic early childhood development, education, nutrition and sporting programs to reduce the social inequity of children and youth in the marginalized rural and peri-urban neighborhoods of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Crecemos currently reaches over 600 children and 400 mothers. Crecemos DIJO es una organizacion comunitaria que ofrece programas integrales de desarrollo, educacion, nutricion y deportes para la primera infancia para reducir la inequidad social de ninos y jovenes en los barrios marginales rurales y periurbanos del estado de Oaxaca, Mexico. Actualmente, Crecemos llega a mas de 600 ninos y 400 madres.

The conservation of the flora, fauna and priority ecosystems of northwestern Mexico, to promote the development of society in harmony with nature.

Vision: All Women and Children of Los Cabos live safe and successful lives. Mission: Remove the obstacles of poverty enslaving the women and children of Los Cabos, Baja, México.

To provide children, adolescents and their families who are in vulnerable situations and extreme poverty, with an alternative of integral human development that permits them to acquire the necessary competencies to be able to overcome their condition and be the promoters of a more just and a more human society.

To prevent blindness caused by ophthalmological diseases, as well as, preserve visual health and promote social integration of visually impaired people that are part of the vulnerable population on Morelos, Mexico.

Promote the development of children and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or other developmental disorders, through personalized and professional attention to promote their right to inclusion and a dignified life.

Mission: Develop, implement and disseminate a holistic, contextualized and individualized education capable of fully developing each child's capacities.

To help those in need across the world, by our actions and commitment to improving peoples lives