Humana People to People is a movement that focuses its attention on creating answers to some of the main questions facing humanity.
It does not compare itself to anything or to anybody but itself.
Luckily this places the organization completely outside any sort of competition - left or right. It has done its own things - and still does.
The inspiration to start what is today Humana People to People back in 1977, came from years of travel done by teachers and participants at the first "Traveling Folk High School" - meeting people around the world in their often horrible conditions. This first meeting inspired action - and ever since the first actions, it has been the reality facing fellow human beings that have inspired to fierce competition - to do more, to become better, to raise the quality, to reach more people ...... And that is still where the inspiration comes from.
Ideas for projects and actions are provokingly simple and uncomplicated to understand and take their point of departure in the fundamental issue of bringing about humanizing conditions for people in need. These needs are often very basic, and it is not lack of know-how or technology that prevents them from being met. We know how to drill a bore hole, how to prevent and treat diseases, how to grow nutritious food, how to build schools, etc. So somehow it is a matter of just doing it - placing the needs of fellow human beings at the center - building capacity - and mobilizing as many people as possible to become active creators in their own development.
Today, there are 32 national associations connected to the Humana People to People Movement. The associations are working in 40 countries around the world. Humana People to People members presently operate more than 225 development projects reaching out to more than 7.5 million people on a yearly basis within the areas of basic health, HIV & AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development. Furthermore, about 4.5 million people are reached annually through the secondhand clothes sales and distribution system.
In brief the activities cover:
- 17 teacher training colleges in Angola, Mozambique and Malawi educate every year more than 1,000 primary school teachers for the rural areas.
More than 4,000 teachers have been trained so far.
- 24 schools for children and vocational schools provide education to street children, orphans and other children from grade 1 to grade 9 and vocational training
of youth.
- 500,000 people are reached by Child Aid Projects, which is a variety of activities aimed at improving living conditions for the whole family and for the children
in particular.
- HOPE centers in 8 countries have over the past 10 years played an active role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Through mobilizing the communities around education,
information, counseling, testing and care, tens of thousand of people have got new hope in countries where the HIV prevalence sometimes is 30%.
- Since the year 2000, the TCE Program - Total Control of the Epidemic - has been involved the fight against AIDS on a larger scale and with a radical approach that
mobilizes each and every person in the community to do their part. TCE is implemented in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Angola
and South Africa.
- In emergency situations Humana People to People has given relief aid to refugees from wars in Africa and Europe, to people hit by drought or floods in Malawi,
Mozambique, India and Sri Lanka.
It does not compare itself to anything or to anybody but itself.
Luckily this places the organization completely outside any sort of competition - left or right. It has done its own things - and still does.
The inspiration to start what is today Humana People to People back in 1977, came from years of travel done by teachers and participants at the first "Traveling Folk High School" - meeting people around the world in their often horrible conditions. This first meeting inspired action - and ever since the first actions, it has been the reality facing fellow human beings that have inspired to fierce competition - to do more, to become better, to raise the quality, to reach more people ...... And that is still where the inspiration comes from.
Ideas for projects and actions are provokingly simple and uncomplicated to understand and take their point of departure in the fundamental issue of bringing about humanizing conditions for people in need. These needs are often very basic, and it is not lack of know-how or technology that prevents them from being met. We know how to drill a bore hole, how to prevent and treat diseases, how to grow nutritious food, how to build schools, etc. So somehow it is a matter of just doing it - placing the needs of fellow human beings at the center - building capacity - and mobilizing as many people as possible to become active creators in their own development.
Today, there are 32 national associations connected to the Humana People to People Movement. The associations are working in 40 countries around the world. Humana People to People members presently operate more than 225 development projects reaching out to more than 7.5 million people on a yearly basis within the areas of basic health, HIV & AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development. Furthermore, about 4.5 million people are reached annually through the secondhand clothes sales and distribution system.
In brief the activities cover:
- 17 teacher training colleges in Angola, Mozambique and Malawi educate every year more than 1,000 primary school teachers for the rural areas.
More than 4,000 teachers have been trained so far.
- 24 schools for children and vocational schools provide education to street children, orphans and other children from grade 1 to grade 9 and vocational training
of youth.
- 500,000 people are reached by Child Aid Projects, which is a variety of activities aimed at improving living conditions for the whole family and for the children
in particular.
- HOPE centers in 8 countries have over the past 10 years played an active role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Through mobilizing the communities around education,
information, counseling, testing and care, tens of thousand of people have got new hope in countries where the HIV prevalence sometimes is 30%.
- Since the year 2000, the TCE Program - Total Control of the Epidemic - has been involved the fight against AIDS on a larger scale and with a radical approach that
mobilizes each and every person in the community to do their part. TCE is implemented in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Angola
and South Africa.
- In emergency situations Humana People to People has given relief aid to refugees from wars in Africa and Europe, to people hit by drought or floods in Malawi,
Mozambique, India and Sri Lanka.
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