HOPE Worldwide
Bringing Hope and Change to the World’s Poorest
Location: 60 countries worldwide
HOPE worldwide: Grantee in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2014
Since 1991, HOPE worldwide has been delivering sustainable, high impact, community-based services to the poor and needy across the globe. Each year, they serve more than one million of the world’s most poor, sick, and suffering regardless of their religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background.
Through affiliates working in-country, HOPE worldwide, along with corporate sponsorships, deploys volunteers to help empower communities to fight poverty. Programs may address ongoing needs or mobilize in response to unexpected disasters and often include the development of assorted healthcare related services. Such initiatives often help children and youth, considered a vital way to build a better future.
Another important focus is vocational training that can improve economic wellbeing and raise living standards. Training focuses on critical skills in short demand (e.g., healthcare aides/nursing) as well as trades like sewing, beauty, and computer management. This training addresses the need to raise the employability of at-risk youth. Micro-loans, often accompanied by financial literacy education, are also offered to help participants start their own businesses.
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GRANT SUMMARY AND PURPOSE
2007: $6,000 for healthcare and health education for expectant mothers and their young children in two New Delhi, India slums. These mothers and children struggle to survive on a few rupees/day in communities with no waste removal, limited electricity and water, and no healthcare. The US Agency for International Development matched this grant 3-to-1, resulting in five staffed outposts that serve 60 or more patients daily.
2008: $25,000 for 100 micro-loans to graduates of vocational training programs in New Delhi to start small businesses. The capital pool for these loans can be partially recycled to help make the program self-sustainable.
2009: $10,000 to contribute to computer learning centers in three government schools in Jodhpur and Pali, India where over 95% of the children come from very poor families (
2014: $20,000 to fund development and pilot implementation of a nurse’s assistant training program for 10 at-risk youth in La Paz, Bolivia.
IMPACT
Improved overall wellbeing of at-risk mothers and children. Better healthcare, education enhance their ability to live productive lives and become more employable.