Healing Hands International
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Dr. Randy Steger, marketing professor at David Lipscomb University, presented a proposal to serve as a pilot program that would utilize the energy and abilities of students to solicit donations of supplies. Through this urgent need for humanitarian relief the students organized the Healing Hands ministry, which was later incorporated as Healing Hands International in 1994. Since acquiring a 501 (C) (3) status in 1994, HHI has shipped to over 70 different countries in need. HHI seeks to accomplish it's mission through helping congregations of the churches of Christ collect, ship and distribute medications, medical supplies, equipment, agricultural aid, school supplies, and other items that reduce human suffering. Missionaries and church leaders will continue to be the source of distribution in host countries. Medicines and medical supplies will be distributed to competent medical and relief workers in close relationship with these missionaries. Aid will be provided to all people, regardless of race, religious preference, creed, or ethnic background.
Healing Hands Network
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Healing Hands Network has been working in Sarajevo since 1996 to bring help, and hope, to people suffering from the terrible after-effects of war. Our aims are simple - to use our healing hands to help anyone who needs our skills, regardless of race, colour or creed. Our members are qualified and experienced therapists offering a range of treatments including massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, reiki and other mainstream complementary therapies. They are all volunteers and raise the funds needed for their trip. Our clients come from the Association of Concentration Camp Victims, the Association of Civil War Victims and the Centre for Torture Victims.
Health Empowerment Through Nutrition
United KingdomResearch/Dev
HETN is a registered charity, based in Malvern, UK, which is dedicated to combating poor nutrition particularly in the African sub-continent. HETN is at the forefront of exploring the relationship between nutrition and chronic disease. The human body needs sufficient nutrients for optimum health, today, as a result of environmental degradation, farming methods, food processing and diet choices, there is a gap in the nutritional status of most people. In consequence, our immunity is compromised and chronic diseases are on the increase. In the West, people may be living longer but half of them have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug on a regular basis. This worldwide problem is extreme in Africa, where primary micronutrient deficiencies are widespread and severe.
Health Action International
NetherlandsResearch/Dev
HAI is working towards a world where all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged are able to exercise their human right to health, which requires equitable access to affordable quality health care and essential medicines. HAI and its global partners recognize that poverty and social injustice are the greatest barriers to health and sustainable development. Partners are working for just societies where people can participate equitably in all decision making that affects their health and well being, including the allocation of resources.
Health Connections International
NetherlandsResearch/Dev
Health Connections International is a solution-oriented non-profit organisation designed to strengthen healthcare systems and to improve responses to the HIV, tuberculosis and drug use epidemics in resource-poor settings and developing countries. Health Connections International focuses on facilitating and promoting communication between professionals through the multi-lingual exchange of information and the sharing of experiences. These exchanges are facilitated through the innovative use of ICT technologies adapted for use in resource-limited settings combined with traditional training seminars and practical workshops.
Health Education To Villages
IndiaHealth/Medical
HETV is a private, non-profit development group that works within the existing health framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational programs that will provide rapid and long-term capacity-building to improve health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control over their health status. Partnered with national and state governments, we work to assist in educating mothers and children, teachers and students, doctors and village health workers, and a variety of community leaders, in the targeted areas of health, water, hygiene, and sanitation.
Health Inc
IndiaHumanitarian Aid
HEALTH Inc was founded in 1992 to undertake work in Tibetan refugee camps in restricted areas which receive little international aid. It now works mostly with indigenous peoples across the western Himalaya, focusing on the people of remote villages in Ladakh. We are a private, not-for-profit, non-government agency (NGO) partnered with registered charities in Austria, Canada, India, the UK and the USA. While our focus is mostly on issues of health, environment and literacy, our programs are designed and implemented by the beneficiaries themselves. If the people are concerned about disabled children, we design a program to fit this need.
Health Poverty Action
United KingdomResearch/Dev
At Health Poverty Action, we help the poorest and most marginalised people assert their right to health. We prioritise those missed out by almost everyone else. We have built up long-term relationships and trust with many of the poorest and most marginalised communities. They may be on the edge of society because of ethnicity or culture, gender, geography, politics, economics – or any combination of these. Health Poverty Action recognises health as a fundamental human right, not simply a medical challenge. We don’t just improve health services, but also focus on other factors that impact on health such as water, sanitation and nutrition.
Health Research and Educational Trust
United StatesResearch/Dev
Through its affiliation with the American Hospital Association, Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) accesses valuable resources, data and thought leadership, yet maintains the autonomy needed to examine issues independently and objectively. HRET's independent board and partners contribute significantly to the "brain trust" established at HRET. HRET's agenda is focused on performing research and developing educational materials to: Enhance community health, Expand health coverage and access, Improve patient safety and health delivery systems, Develop and publish innovative research, Explore and communicate fresh ideas and best practices and Encourage and acknowledge research through fellowships and awards.
Health System Trust
South AfricaHealth/Medical
Since 1992, the Health Systems Trust (HST) has been contributing to the development of a comprehensive, equitable and effective national health system in South Africa. Our core activities are health systems research, health systems development, advocacy, capacity development and information dissemination. These activities are implemented through core programmes of Research, the Initiative for Sub-District Support (ISDS), Community Development and HealthLink. The underlying principles that guide HST are support for the Primary Health Care philosophy and a commitment to equity and efficiency. HSTs uniqueness lies in the ability to integrate knowledge generation, policy development and practice in health systems development. Our projects and programmes are geared to support and monitor transformation towards a more equitable provision of health services, especially to meet the needs of the most disadvantaged.
Health Unlimited
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Health Unlimited has been committed to securing the health of some of the poorest and most marginalised people in the world for a quarter of a century. Our first programme was in Southern Afghanistan in 1984, where our founders recognised the strong link between health and conflict. Front lines make headlines, but over the longer term the impact of conflict on health claims more lives than bullets. Health Unlimited now supports programmes in 12 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We have developed strong relationships with many indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities struggling for survival or caught up in conflicts and we continue to work with the communities everyone else has forgotten.
Healthnet TPO
NetherlandsHealth/Medical
HealthNet TPO is a Dutch knowledge-driven aid agency that works on the sustainable (re)construction and rehabilitation of health care systems in areas disrupted by war and disasters. By developing evidence-based interventions our aim is to reach better and more accessible health care for all developing evidence-based interventions to strengthen the health of populations in distress.
HealthRight International
United StatesHuman Rights
HealthRight International is a global health and human rights organization working to build lasting access to health for excluded communities. We work closely with communities and establish local partnerships to deliver health services. At the same time, we provide training and equipment and improve systems to enable our partners to deliver services on their own. Our goal is to create lasting change that supports access to health while strengthening human rights. Our projects address health and social crises made worse by human rights violations.
Healthy Child Healthy World
United StatesCommunity/Family
We are leading a movement that educates parents, supports protective policies, and engages communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Healthy Child Healthy World exists because more than 125 million Americans, especially children, now face an historically unprecedented rise in chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and learning and developmental disabilities. Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases. For the past two decades Healthy Child Healthy World has been the nation's leading organization of its kind. We help millions of parents, educators, health professionals, and the general public take action to create healthy environments and embrace green, non-toxic steps.
Hear and Say Centre
AustraliaChildren/Education
The Hear and Say Centre is one of the leading Paediatric Auditory-Verbal and cochlear implant centres in the world, teaching children who are deaf or hearing impaired to listen and speak since 1992. The Centre aims for its children to achieve speech and language in the normal range for their age by six years of age giving them the opportunity for a mainstream education, employment of choice and social integration with the hearing world. The Centre is a charity based in Brisbane with regional centres on the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Townsville and Toowoomba with an Outreach program for rural and remote children. It is a family based program recognizing the parent as the natural language teacher of the child.
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados
BarbadosHealth/Medical
The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados Inc. is a non-profit organisation. The Foundation was founded in 1985 as the Heart Foundation of Barbados and in 2006 embraced stroke to become the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados. The Foundation came to fruition thanks to the shared initiatives of The Lions Club of Barbados South, through its Health and Social Services Committee, then under the chairmanship of Mr. H. (Dru) Symmonds SCM, J.P., and Professor Trevor Hassell, Cardiologist, who was that time Head of the Department of Medicine and of the Cardiac Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados. The Foundation is a non-governmental organisation and receives no funding from government. Therefore the organisation is very heavily dependent upon donations and fees to carry out our work and relies considerably upon the financial support of individual Barbadians.
Heart Children Ireland
IrelandHealth/Medical
Heart Children Ireland is a voluntary organisation with the aim of providing practical support for our members including setting up local groups, buying medical equipment, financial assistance, funding specialist posts and special events for the children and their families. We hope to raise awareness of congenital heart defects in the general public, as it is the most common of all birth defects. We will endeavour to get the best treatment and facilities for children with CHD and their families, and to do this we will continue to lobby those in power to secure better treatment and facilities and to highlight deficiencies in the existing service.
Heart Foundation
AustraliaHealth/Medical
Since we were established in Australia in 1959, we have funded world-class cardiovascular research, supported health professionals in their practice, developed health promotion activities, informed and educated the public, and assisted people with cardiovascular disease. Today, the life expectancy of Australians is about ten years longer for men and nine years longer for women. With your support, we aim to continue our ground-breaking work into the future, providing Australians with the very best heart health information and funds for cutting edge research. The Heart Foundation is dedicated to reducing the dreadful effects of the number of people living with, or dying from heart, stroke and blood vessel disease.
Heart of Romania's Children Foundation
United KingdomChildren/Education
Heart of Romania’s Children Foundation Inc. is a small, locally based charity, which is run totally by volunteers, inspired to help abandoned and orphan children and to provide assistance for the disabled children or adults of Romania. The children who are abandoned by their parents are bound to live in impersonal state centers. Some of them don’t have the luck to be in such centers and they have a miserable life in the street, in deep poverty. When children turn 18 years of age, they must leave the orphanage, according to the local law. But, since they have little or no education and nobody to turn to, they wander around aimlessly.
Heart Research Centre
AustraliaResearch/Dev
The Heart Research Centre conducts research into cardiac rehabilitation and the prevention of heart disease, especially their social, psychological and behavioural aspects. Findings are used to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve the quality of life of patients, families and communities and to encourage healthy behaviours, in order to reduce premature disability and death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). Results of clinical studies also aim to improve the delivery of health services. Several of the Centre’s studies concern secondary prevention of CVD. Primary prevention is also being addressed in studies of high-risk groups, including families of cardiac patients, rural dwellers and manual workers. Longitudinal studies are being conducted to determine predictors of mortality, morbidity, quality of life and other outcomes.