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Canadian Support of Rural African Initiatives (CSRAI) is a volunteer non-governmental organization started in the mid-1990's with a mission to address the devasting impacts of HIV/AIDS in Africa. In Tanzania, CSRAI partners with local community -based organizations to deliver a range of programs that aim to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and support both children and adults who have been affected by the disease. These programs include: prevention education and outreach; orphan support and vocational training (agriculture, sewing, carpentry, auto mechanics) ; guardian/caregiver support and income generation; and, home care.

Our vision is provide basic healthcare services to over 1 million underprivileged women and children in rural India by the year 2030 and reduce mortality rate by 80% by educating communities, leveraging disease prevention techniques, and innovating healthcare treatment / delivery approaches. The first hospital, a 20-bed 6,500 square feet facility, was opened for service on October 2nd, 2011 in a rural community of Sarurpur Kalan, serving a population of about 50,000. Since its opening, the hospital has provided basic healthcare services to an average of 830 patients per month.

It is estimated more than 19 million children worldwide are visually impaired. Over 60% of them would have no impairment if they had access to glasses. One way we want to help is by empowering communities to focus on sustainable local entrepreneurship projects that target the prevention of visual impairment and avoidable blindness from the very start. We are a group of dedicated individuals, all volunteering our time to this cause. Please join us in our mission and help kids see. Your time & support is necessary in order to achieve this goal. Thank you!

Health Partners International of Canada is a not-for-profit relief and development organization that works through partnerships to increase access to medicine and improve health in the developing world. Millions of people around the world suffer and die unnecessarily from preventable and treatable diseases because there is no medicine. In response to the needs on the ground, HPIC requests and receives donations of medicine, vaccines and medical supplies from Canadian healthcare companies. HPIC then provides medical aid through Canadian doctors, aid organizations and government agencies to impoverished communities and countries for emergency relief and community development.

The Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre is a Whitehorse, Yukon based organization that has been offering programming and support to women throughout the Yukon for more than thirty years. The Women’s Advocate offers support and assists women in assessing their options and accessing information and services. The Centre organizes annual events such as International Women’s Day, Sexual Assault Prevention Month and Take Back the Night, and offers various programs such as the Moms and Kids Summer Recreation Program, Rural Pregnant Moms Suite, daily drop-in, the Community Kitchen, film nights, book club, and Girls Club.

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute is a bilingual academic health centre dedicated to promoting heart health through integrated cardiac services including: primary and secondary prevention, state-of-the-art diagnostics, and therapies and rehabilitation. The Heart Institute is a regional facility serving our local communities within the Champlain District and western Quebec. The Heart Institute is a resource to the province, the rest of Canada, and the international community. The Heart Institute is committed to basic and clinical research which adds new knowledge. We educate professional staff and the public to apply this knowledge to improve the health of our community.

Orbis is a leading global non-governmental organization that has worked to transform lives through the prevention and treatment of blindness for over 35 years. With our network of partners, we mentor, train and inspire local teams so they can save sight in their communities. Alongside those partners, Orbis provides hands-on ophthalmology training, strengthens healthcare infrastructure and advocates for the prioritization of eye health on public health agendas. Orbis operates the world's only Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft.

International Eye Foundation is dedicated to helping people see! Since 1961 IEF has taken up the challenge in poor countries around the world, helping to restore sight and prevent blindness. IEF offers strong new strategic directions that focus on making eye clinics financially self sufficient. IEFs achievements include developing eye health services, training ophthalmologists and para-medicals, and fighting vitamin A deficiency, trachoma and river blindness. IEF is now strengthening the management, quality of service, and income generating activities so that eye clinics are less dependent on outside donors and government funds.

National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin (NKFW) is dedicated to preventing kidney diseases, improving the health and well-being of those affected by kidney disease, and increasing the availability for all organs for transplantation. In partnership with NKFW, you support all people impacted by kidney disease or organ transplantation. By empowering patients, inspiring action, and raising awareness of kidney disease and organ transplantation, you make a positive impact in the community around you. In fact, you save lives by increasing public access to information, education, and early intervention, and by providing opportunities for volunteers to share their expertise and compassion with communities across Wisconsin.

Ekam USA Inc Mission Statement To develop a high quality, comprehensive, continuous healthcare model that will ensure the care of every neonate, infant, child, adolescent and mother in a respectful, caring and family-centered environment, regardless of their financial situations by supporting and improving the public health care system. To support and improve health care for children in financial need. To remove financial constraints on parents of needy children. To develop a healthy world population by improving awareness through education and preventive program, as well as providing support for children’s health care. To develop a sense of service in the community by local service projects.

To provide free reconstructive surgery and dental treatment to children with cleft lip and palate anomalies in underserved areas of the world. 2. To establish comprehensive cleft treatment centers in collaboration with local professionals and inspire them to support free interdisciplinary treatment programs. 3. To foster an awareness of the necessity to provide timely comprehensive care for all cleft lip and palate anomalies. 4. To develop and implement programs to identify causes and support preventive measures to reduce the incidence of cleft lip and palate. 5. To create international understanding and goodwill by building bridges of friendship among all people.

Parasites Without Borders will establish a series of resources that emphasizes all aspects of parasitic diseases. These resources will be related to the identification, prevention and treatment of these infectious agents. These resources will involve the production of textbooks (initially the 6th edition of Parasitic Diseases). This textbook has been internationally recognized as the seminal medical reference for basic and clinical information summarizing what is currently known regarding the major parasitic infections that infect humans. We will produce on-line comprehensive courses on parasitic diseases as well as other resources to serve to disseminate basic and clinical information dealing with all the aspects of the global problem of parasitic disease.