Global Efforts
Even though our primary efforts are to try and make sure that each and every American citizen has the tools and resources to not only survive but prosper, we wish to thank and bring to the forefront certain organizations for their efforts on a global scale.
Special Thanks To
About them: The International Peace Institute is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank with a staff representing more than 20 nationalities, located in New York across from United Nations headquarters.
IPI is dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of conflicts between and within states by strengthening international peace and security institutions. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, convening, publishing and outreach.
About them: Darfur Peace and Development Organization (DPDO) was founded in 2002 by a group of Darfuris in the United States.
DPDO is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to a peaceful Darfur that is justly governed and developed in a sustainable manner.
The mission of DPDO is to provide humanitarian relief to victims of the crisis in Darfur, to facilitate just governance, and to enable Darfuris to effectively rebuild and develop their homeland.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.darfurpeace.org
Children's Corrective Surgery Society
About them: Children's Corrective Surgery Society (CCSS) was founded in 1972 by John Martin. During their mission trips to Mexico, John and his wife, Jean, were deeply moved upon witnessing a number of individuals suffering with the physical and emotional pain of their disfiguring birth defects that had been left uncorrected well into adulthood, as well as the horrific living conditions, especially those with cleft lips and cleft palates. Poverty and the lack of a qualified surgeon in their local area prevented children from living a normal life.
It is the objective of Children's Corrective Surgery Society to provide free reconstructive surgeries to disfigured children worldwide. We are committed to showing love in action through the entire corrective surgery process. In the fulfillment of these objectives, CCSS ensures that no child is ever seen as a statistic or file number. Each patient receives all the love and personal attention possible.
There is healing that needs to occur in areas that doctors cannot reach with their surgical skills. Nearly all of these children come to us with deep emotional scars that need healing as well. CCSS staff and our many volunteers have gone above and beyond to make sure more than 16,000 children have returned home with memories of an outpouring of love and compassion.
CCSS does not only deal with birth defects. We are often presented with opportunities to relieve human suffering around the world, and we do all we can to respond, such as providing assistance for disaster relief in developing countries. CCSS also provides medical aid, such as speech therapy, medications, dental work, and other basic medical care to those in need.
It is also CCSS's goal to be the bridge for those in the medical and dental fields who have a desire to offer their gifted services to assist those in need. Through our combined efforts, we help children to live a normal life by removing the mask of deformity.
Our efforts in establishing surgical clinics throughout the world are ongoing. We believe all should be given a chance to live a normal life free from pain and ridicule. Many patients have expressed how corrective surgery has been the beginning of a new life for themselves and their families, restoring pride, dignity and hope, and it is a joy for CCSS to be a part of that transformation!
About them: World Orphans Day contributes to raising public awareness about the plight of orphaned and displaced children, whose numbers are on the rise. Only a large scale and sustainable political, social and moral awakening and movement by global governments, NGO’s and religious groups can address this.
About them: Inspired by Feeding America -- and with the support of the world's largest national food bank networks -- The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) was established in January 2006. Our mission is to alleviate world hunger. We do this by supporting food banks and food bank networks where they exist, and by working collaboratively to create them in communities where they are needed. We work in countries that make up nearly a third of the world's total undernourished population.
http://www.globalfoodbanking.org/
About them: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
About them: We seek to leverage the power of the community to help build a better world, one without modern slavery and human trafficking, which involve the complete control of one person by another for the purpose of economic exploitation. Millions of people around the world and even in the DC area are forced to work under threat of violence. They are paid nothing and cannot leave.
http://www.stopmodernslavery.org/
About them: Soles4Souls has a simple mission: To impact as many lives as possible with the gift of shoes.
Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Soles4Souls is a 501(c)(3) recognized by the IRS, and donating parties are eligible for tax advantages.
The idea behind gifts of shoes is nothing new to the Soles4Souls team, as they coordinated relief efforts for the Asian Tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, netting over 1 Million pairs donated for these disasters. The team originally operated as www.katrinashoes.org with several churches partnering in the collection and distribution of footwear.
http://www.soles4souls.org/index.html
