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Women's Health In Women's Hands is a community health centre for women of diverse backgrounds in Metropolitan Toronto and surrounding municipalities. Our primary health care team of highly skilled health care professionals specializes in the health and wellness needs of racialized women. Our services are fully accessible and designed to address the barriers that prevent us from being healthy.

Parachute is a national, charitable organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. Parachute officially came into being in July 2012 and unites the former organizations of Safe Communities Canada, Safe Kids Canada, SMARTRISK and ThinkFirst Canada into one leader in injury prevention. Every day, 35 Canadians will die because of an injury. Within the next two hours, another Canadian will become a quadriplegic for life. Every nine minutes, another child's or senior's injury leads to a permanent, life-altering disability. We need your help to put the brakes on an invisible epidemic to prevent injuries and save lives.

The Buckeye Clinic in South Sudan operates a small, donor-supported health program that focuses on maternal and child health and basic acute care for displaced and local communities in Piol / the Mongalla IDP camp. The organization supports on-the-ground clinic operations (vaccination, delivery care, malaria and emergency treatment) and partners with local health authorities to deliver essential primary care in a high-need area.

The Foundation for Education in Honduras (FEIH) is a charitable organization committed to providing education to children in high-need areas of rural Honduras.

A Light in Dark Places (ALIDP) breaks down the stigma surrounding the topic of suicide by using the performing arts to encourage healthy discussion, create community, and offer hope to those affected.

Over 600 million Indians defecate in the open every day because they have no toilet. This practice cripples health, economic, and social outcomes. Open defecation (OD) causes the spread of infectious diseases that kill an estimated 300,000 children under five every year. The economic costs of OD total nearly $54 billion lost each year in India, with rural households bearing the highest per capita loss. Furthermore, women and girls who lack convenient access to toilets often miss school and work while they are menstruating. SHRI ends open defecation in India by constructing community toilet facilities that are free to use. They include eight toilets for women, eight for men, hand-washing stations, and a biogas digester (a large underground tank). Human excrement is stored in this tank where it decomposes to produce methane gas. SHRI uses this energy source to produce electricity, which powers a water filtration plant that uses a patented resin filter to remove arsenic, fluoride, iron, and bacterial contaminants. The resulting potable water is sold for $0.008 per liter, less than half the current market cost, helping SHRI to generate revenue to offset its monthly facility O&M costs. This ensures facility cleanliness, a key predictor of sustained toilet use. Thus SHRI fights alongside rural Indian communities to end open defecation as a key step in the struggle for health equity, and social and economic justice.