HEALTH AND HOPE FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Health & Hope Foundation is 501(c) (3) non-profit that delivers dental, vision, and medical care via portable clinics to communities that lack adequate access to healthcare. Education, light, water, sustainable business, and sexual safety needs are subsequently addressed by our programs and partnerships with specialized NGOs. Our focus is impoverished women and children of Tanzania and the Philippines.
About This Cause
TANZANIA Our US Volunteer Team travels annually to Tanzania. We support and work hand-in-hand with our HHF Tanzanian team. Health & Hope Dental Clinics provide Preventative Dental Care through programs that include cleanings, fluoride treatments, and sealants. Children are provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste along with education in proper brushing technique. Patients with decay are provided dental extractions for non-restorable teeth and dental fillings where needed. All are provided preventative nutrition and dental education to save remaining teeth. In our health clinics in Tanzania, Health & Hope Foundation volunteers support Vision 2020, the WHO Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness by the year 2020. We provide individuals preventative education and awareness within our network of local health care workers. Vision examinations, diagnosis, and treatment for vision correction as well as ophthalmic disease are provided when specialists are available. Additionally, reading glasses are provided when prescribed for aging eyes. Health & Hope Foundation places an emphasis on preventative medicine. Medical care may include child, maternity, or general exams, non-invasive treatments, vaccinations, treatment for non-chronic disease, and de-worming clinics. We also provide children shoes to prevent GI worms, a major cause of missed school days. HHF works with in-country providers to help our patients gain access for further diagnostic testing or treatment and follow up. TUMAINI TUTOR SCHOOL AND EDUCATION IN TANZANIA Tumaini (Tu ma ee nee) is Swahili for “hope and optimism for a good future” To invest in the future of children and provide an opportunity where there was none, Health & Hope operates Tumaini Tutor School for orphaned children to obtain a free/sliding fee education, no uniform required. A former chicken coop (with some remodeling) is now school to 120 children ages 4-18 attending regular classes and/or small group tutoring during and after public school hours. Six Tanzanian educators are offered support by HHF to teach a full scope of academics classes. Students can begin an education, and attend tutor sessions to catch up and keep up with their peers when gaps in education occur due to illness or financial inability. Tumaini students are active in water safety projects. With the help of field microbiology water safety testing EC-Kit they are knowledgeable about safe and unsafe drinking sources. Students have an active program for Solar Water Pasteurization to create safe drinking water for their own consumption and to sell clean water in the local community creating a fund for school supplies. Tumaini students with academic promise, financial need preventing them from attending public school, and community leadership are provided scholarship to attend a nearby public school, complemented by their regular Tutor School attendance. HHF Scholarship Program includes government school tuition, books, supplies, uniform and exam fees. Currently 15 orphans are in the Scholarship Program with many deserving children waiting for academic sponsorship support. Ongoing relationships through mail and email (and maybe a visit?) are encouraged. TANZANIAN WOMEN'S BUSINESS PROGRAM Impoverished Tanzanian women, many widowed or elderly, raise multiple orphaned children. Women are provided education and guidance necessary to create a sustained successful livelihood and hope for a better future, with added opportunities in the HHF Microloan Program. In Tanzania HHF operates a Womens Business Program with 55 women and local leaders. Founded in 2011 by Loree Bolin (HHF founder) the program has been part of a holistic approach to improving lives of widows. For most women the status of widow has been achieved by HIV/AIDS, malaria, trauma or desertion, and they are left with little effective means for livelihood and struggling to survive. They raise orphaned grandchildren, extended family, and orphans who just need a home. Rock crashing, creating small bits of rock by hitting rocks together by hand, was one of the very few ways to earn cash. It is physically demanding work with a high injury rate. Focusing on traditional women’s occupations, the HHF program is centered on sewing skills, cooking, poultry and egg businesses, as well as sales of grain, fruit, vegetables, fish, and soap. Each of these endeavors is built around cooperatives of small groups of women providing support, advice, re-investment money, and a means to a better life.