Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief
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Mission Statement
Building health system capacity and supporting healthy lives in low resourced regions.
About This Cause
Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief (CPAR) is a non-profit development organization that supports community efforts to ensure access to clean water, primary health services and a safe and healthy environment. For 40 years, CPAR has made a commitment to long-term change in rural East Africa. CPAR employs a community-centered development approach, working in partnership with African community members in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania to develop initiatives that best address their needs, where they live. We work to improve the quality of their lives, and that of future generations. CPAR envisions a world in which all individuals, families, and communities are able to lead healthy and dignified lives, where their rights are respected, and their basic needs are met. CPAR recognizes that all the elements of one’s life connect, and that health in its holistic sense is created and sustained by the environmental, physical and social conditions that affect people within their community. Without adequate forest cover, soils become depleted. Without fertile soil, food production declines, and the threat of hunger increases. Without secure food supplies and clean water, good health is impossible. In the countries in which CPAR works, this means prioritizing actions that support equitable and reliable access to sufficient water, essential health services, a healthy environment and secure livelihoods – and that all these must be considered within the context of gender equality, the impact of HIV, and the degree to which communities are empowered to take action.