GIVE THEM A HAND FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Give Them a Hand Foundation (GTAH) has as the main focus the development of Africa and its 54 countries, and facilitating the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This includes an emphasis on socio-economic development, gender equality, education for youth, and healthcare services for all. with special attention to remote rural, underserved communities
About This Cause
Since its inception in 2005, Give Them a Hand Foundation ( GTAH) has responded to gaps in community needs in developing countries as well as the United States. GTAH has implemented programs under various conditions, e.g., after natural disasters and during and after epidemics. These have been conducted in diverse cultural settings, including in Haiti, Japan, China, St. Maarten, with refugee children in Jordan, and during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2015. The GTAH has formed an Ebola Coalition, with members comprised of Congolese and American NGOs and individual experts in community engagement, risk communication, and psychosocial support for populations in disaster and crisis situations. . GTAH has been involved in innumerable worldwide recovery to rebuild communities efforts after natural disaster – research shows similarities to epidemic. These projects include mobilizing interfaith groups for community action following the devastation after Hurricane Sandy in the New York/New Jersey area, and sending supplies and mobilizing local psychological professionals in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. Other projects include training teachers and community groups and children after the hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquake in Haiti. Post-disaster support for Japan after the tsunami/earthquake has consisted of in-person workshops and ongoing zoom lectures to the university in the epicenter. In 2014, we were among the organizations to first sound the alarm about the impending Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its potential to become a worldwide pandemic. As a result, we hosted the first forum held at the United Nations on the subject, bringing together the Ambassadors of the three most-affected countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea - with representatives from civil society, WHO, the UN, and the medical profession. An outcome was that organizations mobilized to send over a million-dollars-worth of medical equipment and supplies to those affected countries. We followed that forum with a major awareness-raising event in the UN General Assembly Hall featuring speeches by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and the Ambassador of the AU Observer Mission. In 2019, GTAH joined the fight against the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that was claiming thousands of lives. We partnered with Friends of the Congo in the USA and held a forum in New York City with panelists from CDC, WHO, Harvard University, and other organizations. We also reached an agreement with the University of Butembo in North Kivu to provide training for students in psychology, communications and pastoral studies, community leaders, and faculty members on risk communication, psychosocial support, and community engagement, including a community service element. The project was halted by the pandemic However, we continue to currently help communities in the DRC , with our partners on the ground in South Kivu. The current project combats COVID-19 in the region through the elements of entrepreneurship (hiring local women to sew masks distributed free to the community); and health and psychosocial skills education, about mask-wearing, hand-washing and psychosocial activities. We provided hand washing stations in key locations and infographics to inform the community on good sanitation and building psychological resilience. As with Ebola, we were the first to raise the alarm about the COVID-19 threat to Africa at the UN. In response, we have been hosting webinars on the overarching theme “The Coronavirus in Africa.” All have included experts from various disciplines, as well as drawn large numbers of registrants and garnered positive feedback from an audience of a wide cross-section of the community, government ministers, NGOs, health professionals, advocates, media, and others. On December 5, 2020, “Africa Rise! Healthier and Stronger” a global benefit concert sponsored by Give Them a Hand Foundation and partners will be broadcast around the world to more than 125 countries and into 5,000,000 homes. A world-class fundraiser and star-studded production,” AfricaRise!” hopes to raise more than 8 million to improve health outcomes for more than 645,120 women, children and families throughout the continent of Africa, initially starting in rural communities in two countries in each of the five regions of Africa . We are raising funds to provide mobile clinics and health centers throughout the continent because lack of access to healthcare is a persistent condition for most people living in Africa. This to us represents a permanent sustainable outcome that will have an impact for years into the future. GTAH has over 15 years history of working together to strengthen communities in Africa, including and improving health care for affected communities.