2021 Grant Recipients
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Lwala Community Alliance
Lwala, Kenya -
The Lwala Community Hospital provides primary care, maternal reproductive health services and HIV care in a region with a very high infant mortality rate (95/1000) and the highest HIV/AIDS rate in Kenya.
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St. Joseph Integrative Center on Aging
Standish, ME -
A large segment of seniors living in rural communities around the United States are suffering with multiple chronic health conditions that are exacerbated by social isolation and loneliness.
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia
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Bobby’s Dream is a project of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia in collaboration with National NGOs, Universities and research centers which aim to help refugees and people in need (former prisoners; homeless; unoccupied people) to find a job and to start a new life in Italy (and Europe). Due to the current situation, RFKI’s staff is in ongoing conversation with partners to know which urgent actions should be taken after the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis, in order to help NGOs and local institutions which are working with refugees.
Through Health eVillages’ support, RFK Italia has been able to increase their transportation services. The increased transportation service helps facilitate travel to the teaching center where refugees learn the Italian language. Refugees learning the Italian language is a crucial mission for Bobby’s Dream. When they take Italian lessons, the refugees can practice simulations of job interviews, study for driver license tests, and practice civic education in the broad sense.
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Thistle Farms
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Human trafficking is a global issue where women suffering from dehumanizing poverty are the most vulnerable to trafficking in all its forms. The work of Thistle Farms Global focuses on communities of artisan survivors who are part of these vulnerable populations. Thistle Farms’ activities are focused on what the organization knows will lead to lasting individual and community change, including returning 60 percent of retail profits to artisan survivors and providing ongoing product development and business support that will allow them to reach a broader retail market.
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Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps
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Founded in 1969 following the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, an affiliate of the Doctor Franklin Perkins School, is a leader in child welfare and juvenile justice, operating several programs and services for at-risk youth and their families in Massachusetts. One of their programs is the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP), an alternative to court-ordered detention, providing young people with community-based support and supervision. DDAP diverts minority youth from pre-trial detention and keeps them in their schools and communities. Since the program’s inception in 2005, DDAP has served over 1,100 children. Almost all children referred and accepted into the program are youth of color.
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Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti
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Children Nutrition Program of Haiti’s mission is to help raise a healthy generation of Haitian children, who in turn can raise Haiti from poverty. For more than 20 years, the organization has provided Haitian- led solutions to fight malnutrition and its underlying causes. Throughout its partnership with HeV, CNP will build the capacity and technical skills to develop a technology infrastructure that will help deliver improved outcomes for the children in this program and the communities served by CNP. This includes equipping healthcare providers with tablets that will ensure malnourished children receive a unified, higher standard of care. Equipping nutrition workers with tablets will help to ensure accurate data is collected from communities, as well as provide innovative ways to deliver educational content that is critical to preventing malnutrition.
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Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Municipal General Hospital Write-Up
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The Global Hospital and Research Centre, which is operating the Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Municipal General Hospital in Mumbai, is a charity medical center that has already treated more than 82,000 outpatients in Mumbai. When the second wave of Coronavirus hit India in late spring of 2021, Health eVillages worked with the BSES MG Hospital and Solvoz (an e-procurement platform) to ensure that PPE kits were sent. After receiving a list of the hospital’s priority equipment needs, Health eVillages used Solvoz’s online procurement platform, which allowed the requested medical equipment to be purchased from the most trusted suppliers at the most affordable price, while utilizing the company’s vendors for swift delivery to the Mumbai hospital.
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Center for Grieving Children
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Since 1987, as the third children’s grief support program in the country, the Center for Grieving Children (the Center) has grown from serving four families with 12 volunteers, to becoming a national leader in the field of grieving children. Offering services for free as long as they are needed, the Center’s mission is to provide loving support that encourages the safe expression of grief and loss, and foster an individual’s resilience and emotional wellbeing. The Center helps achieve their mission through three distinct peer support programs; Bereavement for families who have experienced the loss of a family member or loved one, Tender Living Care for children and families coping with serious illness of a family member, and the Intercultural Program. Since 1997, the Center’s Intercultural Program has created healing communities for refugee and immigrant elementary and middle school-aged children who have resettled in Maine from home countries experiencing war, persecution and natural disaster. Last year, the Center served 42 students in its Intercultural program with children representing 11 countries and eight languages.
Campus Partners
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Foundation for Senior Living
Phoenix, AZ -
Foundation for Senior Living (FSL) was founded with one goal in mind: to improve the quality of life for adults and their caregivers.
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Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers
Leesburg, Virginia -
Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers is a community of volunteers helping frail elderly and adults with disabilities to maintain independence and quality of life.
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Mercy Community Healthcare
Franklin, Tennessee -
Mercy Community Health Care is a federally qualified health center located in Franklin, Tennessee, Health eVillages launched its partnership with Mercy by providing nine tablets to the behavioral health, family medicine and pediatrics departments in order to assist in their mission in helping to treat the “whole person.”
Past Programs
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Angels of Hope Uganda
Matugga & Acuma, Uganda -
Angels of Hope provides holistic care that focuses not only on the physical health of their patients, but also on their psychological and social well-being.
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Awassa Referral Hospital
Ethiopia -
Awassa University Referral Hospital is a tertiary level hospital serving a region of 12 million people.
Through a partnership with a professor at the State University of New York, Health eVillages provided devices for a project in Ethiopia where textbooks, diagnostic tools and other medical resources were unavailable.
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Blood:Water - Food For The Hungry
Africa -
Health eVillages worked with Blood:Water Mission and Food for the Hungry Kenya and Food for the Hungry Uganda from 2015-2017 to help address the needs of HIV-positive individuals in their communities.
In Kenya, Food for the Hungry aims to provide clean water systems for communities, education, and health services for those living with HIV. In addition to these services, Food for the Hungry Uganda also offers training in agriculture and sustainable income generation. Through a partnership with a professor at the State University of New York, Health eVillages provided devices for a project in Ethiopia where textbooks, diagnostic tools and other medical resources were unavailable.
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ElevateX
Chellanam, India -
ElevateX serves as a catalyst to solve the greatest challenges around poverty, health, education and injustice. They partner with the most resourceful, creative and disruptive change makers in a community to help achieve progress together.
In 2015, Health eVillages supported an intensive Human Centered Design project focused on improving access to growth opportunities for the social and economic development of the people in Chellanam, India. Since the launch of this partnership, and using music, sport, film and leadership development projects, there have been positive health, education, poverty and social justice issue outcomes.
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HERO
Ste. Therese Hospital – Hinche, Haiti -
The work with Health eVillages, Regis College and Partners in Health was twofold: the first involved a group of nurse educators from the 5 national nursing schools in Haiti. These nurses travel to Regis College to take courses and train, and since 2011 had the benefit of utilizing their own Health eVillages devices loaded with digitized clinical content, apps and calculators. They in turn train the next generation of Haitian nurses, for which there is great demand.
The second focused on nursing education in Hinche, Haiti where the Regis College Nurse Coordinator traveled to Ste. Therese Hospital to train the nurses on a multitude of clinical areas in tandem with an on-site Haitian Nurse Educator. Throughout 2013-2017, Health eVillages provided the nursing staff of Ste. Therese with their own tablets, empowering them with knowledge and tools so that they could make a difference in the health of their own community.
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Hope For Haiti
Haiti -
The mission of Hope for Haiti is to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children, through education, healthcare, water, infrastructure and economy. In addition, Hope for Haiti has an emergency relief component and has responded to several natural disasters like the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and Hurricane Matthew since its founding.
Health eVillages provided 4 devices loaded with clinical content focused on pediatrics and infant and maternal health for use on the ground in Haiti.
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Icebreakers Uganda
Uganda -
Icebreakers Uganda was formed in 2004 to support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) – Ugandans 18 years and over. It is illegal to be gay in Uganda and friends, families, even health care professionals who treat LGBT people are at great risk personally for their safety and freedom. Icebreakers’ mission is to support and raise the awareness of all gay people in Uganda about their human rights aspects in health, risky sexual behaviors with emphasis on HIV/AIDS and to speak out for those who are being bullied, abused or hated because of their sexual orientation.
Health eVillages provided a device and training to the Icebreakers clinic, one of the only clinics in the country where LGBT individuals could safely receive care, without government persecution.
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Jacaranda Health
Nairobi, Kenya -
Jacaranda Health in Kenya aims to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women and newborns by transforming maternity care in East Africa. They build private maternity clinics in peri-urban areas and are innovating to provide patient-centered care that combines quality and affordability.
From 2016-2018, Health eVillages provided 4 tablets to the nursing staff to help with maintenance of skills management as well as to assist in simulation exercises.
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Pacific Partnership Mission
Pacific Islands -
Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.
Health eVillages Board member, and former Navy nurse, John Boyer joined Project Hope’s Pacific Partnership Mission to bring access to medical care to remote islands in the Pacific. Health eVillages 5 devices were used by volunteer clinicians who provided care and public health education on hypertension, diabetes, nutrition, infant and maternal health and tropical diseases.
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Project Hope China
Shanghai, China -
Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian relief organization, committed to transforming lives by empowering healthcare workers around the world.
In partnership with Project Hope, Health eVillages provided 12 devices to Shanghai Children’s Hospital and a regional rehabilitation hospital to help further develop physicians’ base of knowledge and to enable them to quickly refer to diagnostic references.
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Robert F. Kennedy – Lafitte Medical Clinic
Lafitte, Lousiana -
The RFK Lafitte Medical Clinic in Jean Lafitte, LA is one of the state’s newest health centers. The clinic services an isolated population of commercial fishermen and their families who were impacted by the BP oil spill in 2010.
Health eVillages devices were utilized to assist in patient education as well as dosing and treatment methods for skin ailments that arose from the oil spill.
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Shenandoah University’s Dunn School of Pharmacy
Winchester, VA (and internships sites in Dominican Republic and India) -
Shenandoah University, located in Winchester, VA is home to the Dunn School of Pharmacy, founded in 1995 to respond to the growing need for pharmacists in the health-care system.
Health eVillages helped train and equip 4 pharmacy students with digital prescribing content as they embarked on internships in the Dominican Republic and India.
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Sughavazhvu
Tamil Nadu, India -
SughaVazhvu Healthcare is a not-for-profit, rural primary healthcare organization in Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, India. It provides desperately needed basic healthcare services to inaccessible populations.
In 2015, Health eVillages supplied 4 tablets loaded with a wealth of digitized clinical content, including SughaVazhvu Healthcare’s existing treatment protocols and best practices, for use in their mobile clinic and community clinic settings.
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Teche Action Clinic
Franklin, Louisiana -
Teche Action Clinic is a federally qualified health center, which cares for anyone regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, and operates 10 clinic sites in South Louisiana.
Health eVillages provided 16 devices loaded with primary care clinical content to physicians and nurses in this rural Community Health Center.
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Ubuntu Pathways
Port Elizabeth, South Africa -
Ubuntu Pathways (formerly Ubuntu Education Fund) is a nonprofit organization that provides an integrated support system of health, education, and social support in the townships of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Health eVillages worked with the clinic at Ubuntu Pathways to provide digital clinical content to help staff diagnose and treat area children.
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Be like Brit Foundation
Grand Goave, Haiti -
Be like Brit Foundation Inc. (BLB) is an organization that built and supports an orphanage in Grand Goave, Haiti known as Brit’s Home. This orphanage is home to 66 children, 33 boys and 33 girls, and was founded in memory of Britney Gengel with the vision of raising the next generation of leaders in Haiti.
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Child Legacy International
Msundwe, Malawi -
Child Legacy International Inc. (CLI) is a non-profit organization working in Africa with the mission to build sustainable communities, where hope thrives, and legacies of opportunity are created, breaking the generational cycle of poverty.
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Community Clinical Services
Lewiston, Maine -
Community Clinical Services (CCS) is a Federally Qualified Health Center located in Lewiston, Maine, approximately 45 minutes north of Maine’s largest city (Portland). Their two clinic spaces offer primary care, behavioral health and pediatric dental services. In addition, CCS offers outreach into neighboring middle and high schools.
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Harrington Family Health Center
Harrington, Maine -
Located in rural Washington County, Down East Maine, Harrington Family Health Center cares for some of the state’s sickest and poorest individuals.
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Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais
Mirebalais, Haiti -
In South Sudan, the youngest country in the world, giving birth to a new life is a dangerous task. An estimated 200,000 women die, just in South Sudan, each year due to labor complications. Real Medicine Foundation’s mission in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, South Sudan is to reduce this completely unnecessary maternal mortality.
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Kijabe Hospital
Kijabe, Kenya -
This 350-bed facility is one of the more sophisticated hospitals in the region and draws patients, clinicians and students from all of East Africa for treatment and education.
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Partners in Compassionate Care
Werkok, South Sudan -
Partners in Compassionate Care (PCC) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2004 whose goal is to make their hospital, Memorial Christian Hospital, a self-sustained, local NGO that provides health care services to the rural population in South Sudan..
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Juba Teaching Hospital
Juba, South Sudan -
In South Sudan, the youngest country in the world, giving birth to a new life is a dangerous task. An estimated 200,000 women die, just in South Sudan, each year due to labor complications. Real Medicine Foundation’s mission in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, South Sudan is to reduce this completely unnecessary maternal mortality.
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Village HopeCore International
Chogoria, Kenya -
Village HopeCore International is a non-profit that operates just outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Their mission is community development through public health and micro-enterprise/income generation.
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WellShare International
Bariadi District, Tanzania -
WellShare International partners with communities and health care providers to design, implement, and evaluate health programs that respond to the needs of each population they serve. They currently operate within their home state of Minnesota as well as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
