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Soroptimist improves the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
VISION: We aspire to be the vanguard organization that promotes a change in the social view on voluntarily putting up children for adoption, adopting and mistreatment MISSION STATEMENT: To guide boys and girls in their forming process to achieve optimum cognitive and social-emotional development. To raise integral human beings capable of achieving their own independence and cultivating the values of peace, respect and harmony with their environment.
America on Trial Inc. (AOT) is a grassroots organization dedicated to empowering those affected by incarceration and police brutality. Our mission is to drive decarceration and systemic change by uniting communities impacted by mass incarceration, exploitative prison and jail labor, police brutality, and harmful media narratives. We aim to dismantle systemic injustices and promote a more equitable society.
The Northwest Missouri Children's Advocacy Center is dedicated to preventing further trauma to abused children by providing a safe environment for them to disclose abuse, obtain protection and receive counseling.
To support survivors and end domestic violence in San Luis Obispo County.
Turning Point is a safe place where ALL survivors of domestic and intimate partner abuse and their children can find refuge. Our Mission is to eliminate domestic and intimate partner abuse in the Lehigh Valley through survivor empowerment, and community education and engagement. We provide services in Lehigh and Northampton counties and reached over 3,500 people in fiscal year 2021-2022 through our trauma-informed, inclusive programs and services. Those include: a 24-hour Helpline, Emergency Safe House, Empowerment Counseling and Groups, Legal Advocacy, Education and Training, and Medical Advocacy.
Founded in 2015, to provide food, clothing, and school supplies to underprivileged families in Paterson, mainly domestic violence victims
To help impoverished children succeed in life. We enable children to access schools and we help them to stay there, by paying fees, teaching life skills, providing counseling when problems arise, providing medical help when needed and making sure every child has at least one square meal every day. We provide both formal education and technical training for children who would otherwise suffer hunger, disease and permanent poverty.
VGIF provides grants globally to fund locally generated projects that advance the rights of women and girls.
Village Health Partnership (VHP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works for safer motherhood in rural Ethiopia. VHP's mission is to prevent maternal and neonatal death in childbirth, and to treat and prevent gynecologic complications of childbirth. To achieve this mission, programs are focused on healthcare, capacity building, and education and training. To demonstrate how VHP works to accomplish its mission, our three-prong approach to maternal health needs in Ethiopia is discussed below. Healthcare: Encouraging women to seek treatment is vital to overcoming barriers to safer motherhood. In rural Ethiopia 78% of women do not seek medical care during pregnancy or for delivery because of local customs, fear of the outside world, and challenges faced when traveling to reach medical facilities. Unfortunately, when women in Ethiopia do not receive proper medical care during pregnancy and childbirth, they have a 50% chance of developing a debilitating and sometimes deadly complication. The Screen, Transport and Treat (STT) Program aims to reduce or remove all three barriers to maternal health that involve the decision to seek medical care, the ability to reach medical facilities, and the ability to receive adequate treatment.Through the STT Program, our partners travel to rural communities where they identify women suffering from these complications and arrange for transportation to the nearest health facility where they undergo surgical treatment. Capacity Building: As VHP's treatment efforts grow, further expansion of the Screen, Transport, and Treat Program is challenged by the marginal capacity to treat in the health facilities in which we work. In general, medical facilities in rural communities have limited infrastructure, resources, and ability to provide basic maternal health care. VHP works with rural health facilities and district hospitals to increase capacity with the following: - Access to reliable, consistent sources of water - Concrete pit latrines - Hand washing stations and soap - Fenced biohazard areas with placenta pit and incinerator - Maternity waiting areas that include: - Kitchen - Pit latrine/shower - Tap - Light in labor and delivery - Implementation of the Clean and Safe Healthcare Initiative (CASH) Education and Training As the demand for maternal healthcare rises, so too does the need for trained professionals. In Ethiopia, there is only one physician trained in obstetrics and gynecology for every 1.8 million people. In remote health centers and hospitals, nurses, nurse-midwives, and health officers deliver babies. These medical providers are also in short supply and often inadequately trained. In 2016 VHP beta tested a model for educating all health center providers in neonatal resuscitation and obstetric care. With permission from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), VHP is the first and only organization to translate the Helping Babies Breathe curriculum into Amharic, the Ethiopian national language. We then trained 78 rural healthcare providers in this program. VHP has since expanded the education and training programs to include: 1. Skill building for rural health care providers 2. Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care training for nurse-midwives practicing in the field 3. Scholarship program for village women who wish to become nurse-midwives VHP training programs aim to build a strong and confident rural work force that is fully equipped to provide skilled assistance at the time of delivery. Further, VHP focuses on training students to become trainers themselves to make this effort more sustainable.
The Ladder Alliance mission is to provide women victims of domestic violence and low-income women with the tools to lead self-reliant, independent and successful lives.
UNIDOS exists to empower the community to break the cycle of domestic violence, end sexual assault and promote healthy family systems in the state of Wisconsin.