International Development Organizations: Harvard University
A Drop in the Ocean
A Drop in the Ocean (ADITO) is a non-profit organisation, led by dedicated volunteers, that strives to provide support for grassroots microfinance institutions in Latin America, West Africa and Asia.
[email protected]
http://www.adropintheocean.org
Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA)
Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA) works with both local African partner agencies and international organizations to implement sustainable programs for education and health in Africa’s remote rural areas and urban slums. HCAA's goal is to empower African communities and families to attain a higher quality of life. We believe in community empowerment and work with each community to help them meet their needs. We also believe in participatory investigation, pushing us to dialogue with the community to assess their most pressing needs and working collaboratively to achieve said needs. HCAA achieves its aims by: - Sending teams of volunteers to work with HCAA-sponsored programs in Africa - Collecting school and health supplies, computers, bikes, and other appropriate items for donation to our initiatives - Pursuing ongoing fundraising campaigns HCAA’s members are encouraged to contribute to the success of our efforts in Africa throughout their college career and beyond.
[email protected]
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hcaa
Harvard College Global Energy Initiative
MISSION OF GEI: • Promote renewable energy education and awareness throughout the Harvard community through an energy innovation speaker series and meaningful partnerships with a diverse set of other student organizations. • Engage the Harvard community and its resources with the global energy community, particularly through renewable energy deployment projects in the developing world. • Provide students interested in renewable energy a forum to connect with one another. • Provide students interested in renewable energy a unique opportunity to collectively work on renewable energy projects that have real impact.
[email protected]
Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition
The Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition (HCGHAC) believes that health should be a fundamental human right. Towards this end, HCGHAC strives to challenge and expand the role of both the university and individual students in addressing global health and development needs. Through collaboration with various parties, HCGHAC aims to: ➢ Engage students in a growing movement for global health through education and awareness activities ➢ Effect policy change through advocacy and activism, both on and off campus ➢ Address local and global health needs through direct service and fundraising Through its initiatives, HCGHAC strives to build momentum for a social movement that seeks social justice, especially in pursuing health as a human right. HCGHAC hopes this movement will instill a lasting commitment to global health among members of the Harvard community, and empower these current and future leaders to carry out this commitment in their personal and professional lives.
[email protected]
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/
Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum
HUGH Forum aims to provide the Harvard undergraduate community with a comprehensive view of global health issues alongside opportunities to actively address them through field work. HUGH Forum will (1) raise awareness in the Harvard undergraduate community of pressing global health challenges by using meetings as a forum to discuss these issues and disseminating information on pertinent world health topics; (2) provide undergraduates with an expert opinion on confronting global health challenges by hosting dinners, presentations, panel discussions, and conferences with notable experts in the field, both from Harvard faculty and NGOs; (3) engage students in global health field projects abroad under the umbrella of large NGOs and partner organizations, thereby realizing the volunteer potential of an informed Harvard student body
[email protected]
http://www.hughf.org/
Harvard College Global Health Review
The Harvard College Global Health Review (HCGHR) is the first student-led publication covering global health issues to emerge at Harvard University. Founded in the Fall 2008 by a small group of students from the Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition, the HCGHR aims to raise the levels of both scholarship and awareness in relation to global health. It is the hope of the HCGHR staff that the information brought forth in the review will help to inspire and educate current and future global health leaders. The HCGHR is available both in print and online.
[email protected]
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hghr
Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative
The Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative works to address the underlying causes of the global food crisis by brainstorming and developing new models that can alleviate the recent food shortage, advance education, improve technologies, increase economic opportunity, and tackle the root challenges in poverty alleviation. We advocate for policies that increase emergency aid to those affected by the hunger crisis, as well as long-term developmental programs in affected countries. We aim to have an agenda of both action and advocacy, bridging students from the undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, as well as community members in Cambridge and Allston to alleviate global hunger. We are committed to helping families in poor communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. We pursue our mission with both compassion and commitment. With action as our priority, the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative will focus on brainstorming and crafting actionable responses to challenges in agriculture, by focusing mainly on: (i) technology and innovation, (ii) public and economic policy, (iii) environment and its disproportionate effects on agricultural communities, (iv) education and the empowerment of women, and (v) access to clean and safe drinking water, which is often coupled with the scarcity of food. The Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative will do more than raise consciousness – it will provide substantive ways to engage students in brainstorming, developing, and testing models. Current solutions to alleviating the global food crisis has shown to be frail in recent years. We need creativity, novel thinking, and the bridging of disciplines to create sustainable models to tackle developmental challenges.
[email protected]
www.globalhungerinitiative.com
Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative
The Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative (HCIHI) is concerned with improving the quality of healthcare in developing countries by supplying hospitals and clinics in the developing world with donated medical equipment and supplies. The equipment and supplies will be donated by local Boston hospitals which would otherwise be discarded due to surplus, changes in technology, or changing American medical regulations. Once these items are collected from the various hospitals and healthcare institutions, the members will assemble to clean and sort the supplies and prepare them for shipment to areas in the world where they are most needed. The Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative is an active group which, through its medical supply recovery program, will help its members increase their awareness of the vital role that each of them can play in making a difference around the world.
[email protected]
Harvard College International Women's Rights Collective
The Harvard College International Women’s Rights Collective (IWRC) is a student organization that seeks to promote sustained dialogue and activism among undergraduates regarding international women’s issues. Our hope is to establish greater commitment to gender equality across borders in the framework of universal human rights. We aspire to de-stigmatize contentious elements of gender and cultural relativism through productive, interactive, and respectful debates and events. Value Statement As a Harvard student organization, we recognize our inherent contextualization within Western gender ideology. But the problems we hope to address in the world are contextualized as well. In order to understand the sources of gender conflict and explore sustainable solutions, we reject the notion of culture as a static, unchanging entity. Instead, we hope to work creatively within cultural frameworks to reduce human suffering on the basis of gender.
[email protected]
http://www.facebook.com/hciwrc
Student Initiative for Volunteering Abroad
Student Initiative for Volunteering Abroad (SIVA) is a student-run, undergraduate organization founded with three main goals: To prepare students volunteering abroad to be as efficient and effective as possible in their given environment; To connect students with opportunities to travel abroad and work hands-on with global health issues; And to train future leaders in international health and development. Over the past two summers we have sent more than 30 Harvard students to Tanzania with Support for International Change (SIC), a student-run NGO whose website is currently listed as our club website. This year, we hope to interest more students to volunteer with SIC and other similar NGOs and Public Agencies, especially in needy fields of health, development, and education.
[email protected]
www.sichange.org
Students Taking On Poverty
The Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign is a student-led effort to address and combat issues of poverty. We seek to empower students to confront these issues through three avenues: information, motivation, and action. We are dedicated to connecting our conversations and research about the issues with actual deeds to tangibly affect change and take on poverty.
[email protected]
www.hcs.harvard.edu/stop
Harvard College Sustained Dialogue
Harvard College Sustained Dialogue (HCSD) is concerned with facilitating continuous structured dialogues about- but not restricted to- identity issues among groups of undergraduates with the hope of empowering each to recognize and address social injustice such that the sum total of their raised awareness and activity will translate into a more welcoming and cohesive campus.
[email protected]
Harvard Unite for Sight
Harvard Unite for Sight is part of an international non-profit organization that seeks to eliminate the 80% of global blindness that is preventable. Harvard Unite for Sight members increase eye health awareness and promote public eye disease prevention through free vision screenings and eye health education programs among medically underserved communities in the local Cambridge/Boston community, fundraising programs on and off campus for international eye care initiatives, and an ongoing eyeglass donation drive. Chapter members also facilitate increased public access to general health resources through connecting eligible individuals with free healthcare programs for which they may qualify.
[email protected]
Harvard College UNICEF (HUNICEF)
The overall goal of Harvard College UNICEF is to spread awareness of the situation of the world’s children, and to encourage members to take action to help save lives. Harvard College UNICEF’s efforts will focus on increasing local awareness about UNICEF’s mission both on campus and in the community. Harvard UNICEF aims to 1) educate members on the state of the health and education of the world’s children 2) raise funds to be used towards UNICEF’s work with these children, and 3) provide opportunities for members to directly advocate to protect the lives of children in need. Harvard College UNICEF has an influence and opportunity that reaches beyond life at college. Passionate members who wish to continue working with UNICEF after graduation may do so on an individual basis by volunteering at www.unicefusa.org/volunteer, or through participating in collective initiatives, trips, and boards.
[email protected]
A Drop in the Ocean (ADITO) is a non-profit organisation, led by dedicated volunteers, that strives to provide support for grassroots microfinance institutions in Latin America, West Africa and Asia.
[email protected]
http://www.adropintheocean.org
Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA)
Harvard College Alliance for Africa (HCAA) works with both local African partner agencies and international organizations to implement sustainable programs for education and health in Africa’s remote rural areas and urban slums. HCAA's goal is to empower African communities and families to attain a higher quality of life. We believe in community empowerment and work with each community to help them meet their needs. We also believe in participatory investigation, pushing us to dialogue with the community to assess their most pressing needs and working collaboratively to achieve said needs. HCAA achieves its aims by: - Sending teams of volunteers to work with HCAA-sponsored programs in Africa - Collecting school and health supplies, computers, bikes, and other appropriate items for donation to our initiatives - Pursuing ongoing fundraising campaigns HCAA’s members are encouraged to contribute to the success of our efforts in Africa throughout their college career and beyond.
[email protected]
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hcaa
Harvard College Global Energy Initiative
MISSION OF GEI: • Promote renewable energy education and awareness throughout the Harvard community through an energy innovation speaker series and meaningful partnerships with a diverse set of other student organizations. • Engage the Harvard community and its resources with the global energy community, particularly through renewable energy deployment projects in the developing world. • Provide students interested in renewable energy a forum to connect with one another. • Provide students interested in renewable energy a unique opportunity to collectively work on renewable energy projects that have real impact.
[email protected]
Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition
The Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition (HCGHAC) believes that health should be a fundamental human right. Towards this end, HCGHAC strives to challenge and expand the role of both the university and individual students in addressing global health and development needs. Through collaboration with various parties, HCGHAC aims to: ➢ Engage students in a growing movement for global health through education and awareness activities ➢ Effect policy change through advocacy and activism, both on and off campus ➢ Address local and global health needs through direct service and fundraising Through its initiatives, HCGHAC strives to build momentum for a social movement that seeks social justice, especially in pursuing health as a human right. HCGHAC hopes this movement will instill a lasting commitment to global health among members of the Harvard community, and empower these current and future leaders to carry out this commitment in their personal and professional lives.
[email protected]
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/
Harvard Undergraduate Global Health Forum
HUGH Forum aims to provide the Harvard undergraduate community with a comprehensive view of global health issues alongside opportunities to actively address them through field work. HUGH Forum will (1) raise awareness in the Harvard undergraduate community of pressing global health challenges by using meetings as a forum to discuss these issues and disseminating information on pertinent world health topics; (2) provide undergraduates with an expert opinion on confronting global health challenges by hosting dinners, presentations, panel discussions, and conferences with notable experts in the field, both from Harvard faculty and NGOs; (3) engage students in global health field projects abroad under the umbrella of large NGOs and partner organizations, thereby realizing the volunteer potential of an informed Harvard student body
[email protected]
http://www.hughf.org/
Harvard College Global Health Review
The Harvard College Global Health Review (HCGHR) is the first student-led publication covering global health issues to emerge at Harvard University. Founded in the Fall 2008 by a small group of students from the Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition, the HCGHR aims to raise the levels of both scholarship and awareness in relation to global health. It is the hope of the HCGHR staff that the information brought forth in the review will help to inspire and educate current and future global health leaders. The HCGHR is available both in print and online.
[email protected]
www.hcs.harvard.edu/hghr
Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative
The Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative works to address the underlying causes of the global food crisis by brainstorming and developing new models that can alleviate the recent food shortage, advance education, improve technologies, increase economic opportunity, and tackle the root challenges in poverty alleviation. We advocate for policies that increase emergency aid to those affected by the hunger crisis, as well as long-term developmental programs in affected countries. We aim to have an agenda of both action and advocacy, bridging students from the undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, as well as community members in Cambridge and Allston to alleviate global hunger. We are committed to helping families in poor communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. We pursue our mission with both compassion and commitment. With action as our priority, the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative will focus on brainstorming and crafting actionable responses to challenges in agriculture, by focusing mainly on: (i) technology and innovation, (ii) public and economic policy, (iii) environment and its disproportionate effects on agricultural communities, (iv) education and the empowerment of women, and (v) access to clean and safe drinking water, which is often coupled with the scarcity of food. The Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative will do more than raise consciousness – it will provide substantive ways to engage students in brainstorming, developing, and testing models. Current solutions to alleviating the global food crisis has shown to be frail in recent years. We need creativity, novel thinking, and the bridging of disciplines to create sustainable models to tackle developmental challenges.
[email protected]
www.globalhungerinitiative.com
Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative
The Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative (HCIHI) is concerned with improving the quality of healthcare in developing countries by supplying hospitals and clinics in the developing world with donated medical equipment and supplies. The equipment and supplies will be donated by local Boston hospitals which would otherwise be discarded due to surplus, changes in technology, or changing American medical regulations. Once these items are collected from the various hospitals and healthcare institutions, the members will assemble to clean and sort the supplies and prepare them for shipment to areas in the world where they are most needed. The Harvard College International Healthcare Initiative is an active group which, through its medical supply recovery program, will help its members increase their awareness of the vital role that each of them can play in making a difference around the world.
[email protected]
Harvard College International Women's Rights Collective
The Harvard College International Women’s Rights Collective (IWRC) is a student organization that seeks to promote sustained dialogue and activism among undergraduates regarding international women’s issues. Our hope is to establish greater commitment to gender equality across borders in the framework of universal human rights. We aspire to de-stigmatize contentious elements of gender and cultural relativism through productive, interactive, and respectful debates and events. Value Statement As a Harvard student organization, we recognize our inherent contextualization within Western gender ideology. But the problems we hope to address in the world are contextualized as well. In order to understand the sources of gender conflict and explore sustainable solutions, we reject the notion of culture as a static, unchanging entity. Instead, we hope to work creatively within cultural frameworks to reduce human suffering on the basis of gender.
[email protected]
http://www.facebook.com/hciwrc
Student Initiative for Volunteering Abroad
Student Initiative for Volunteering Abroad (SIVA) is a student-run, undergraduate organization founded with three main goals: To prepare students volunteering abroad to be as efficient and effective as possible in their given environment; To connect students with opportunities to travel abroad and work hands-on with global health issues; And to train future leaders in international health and development. Over the past two summers we have sent more than 30 Harvard students to Tanzania with Support for International Change (SIC), a student-run NGO whose website is currently listed as our club website. This year, we hope to interest more students to volunteer with SIC and other similar NGOs and Public Agencies, especially in needy fields of health, development, and education.
[email protected]
www.sichange.org
Students Taking On Poverty
The Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign is a student-led effort to address and combat issues of poverty. We seek to empower students to confront these issues through three avenues: information, motivation, and action. We are dedicated to connecting our conversations and research about the issues with actual deeds to tangibly affect change and take on poverty.
[email protected]
www.hcs.harvard.edu/stop
Harvard College Sustained Dialogue
Harvard College Sustained Dialogue (HCSD) is concerned with facilitating continuous structured dialogues about- but not restricted to- identity issues among groups of undergraduates with the hope of empowering each to recognize and address social injustice such that the sum total of their raised awareness and activity will translate into a more welcoming and cohesive campus.
[email protected]
Harvard Unite for Sight
Harvard Unite for Sight is part of an international non-profit organization that seeks to eliminate the 80% of global blindness that is preventable. Harvard Unite for Sight members increase eye health awareness and promote public eye disease prevention through free vision screenings and eye health education programs among medically underserved communities in the local Cambridge/Boston community, fundraising programs on and off campus for international eye care initiatives, and an ongoing eyeglass donation drive. Chapter members also facilitate increased public access to general health resources through connecting eligible individuals with free healthcare programs for which they may qualify.
[email protected]
Harvard College UNICEF (HUNICEF)
The overall goal of Harvard College UNICEF is to spread awareness of the situation of the world’s children, and to encourage members to take action to help save lives. Harvard College UNICEF’s efforts will focus on increasing local awareness about UNICEF’s mission both on campus and in the community. Harvard UNICEF aims to 1) educate members on the state of the health and education of the world’s children 2) raise funds to be used towards UNICEF’s work with these children, and 3) provide opportunities for members to directly advocate to protect the lives of children in need. Harvard College UNICEF has an influence and opportunity that reaches beyond life at college. Passionate members who wish to continue working with UNICEF after graduation may do so on an individual basis by volunteering at www.unicefusa.org/volunteer, or through participating in collective initiatives, trips, and boards.
[email protected]