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What is HealtheChildren?
HealtheChildren is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of children in developing countries.
Our guiding principles are in accord with United Nations Convention on Children's Rights which recognizes, "that children not only deserve the same rights as adults, but that children, because of their vulnerability, need special care and assistance."
Our Mission at HealtheChildren is to develop practical models of children's health, education and vocational training that to allow every child in emerging countries to achieve their true potential. These model programs function independently of local governments, and are not a form of long-term foreign aid.
Our History
2008
HealtheChildren moves community-based health care center to a new permanent home at La Fundacíon Aliñambi, Valle de los Chillos, Ecuador.
Manna Project student volunteers begin regularly transporting donated medicine to Ecuador.
World Bank lends advisor to provide technical assistance for Social Capital Asset Tool (SOCAT) survey of 450 local households in areas served by HealtheChildren programs determining health, educational, and socioeconomic conditions.
Planning begins to expand children and family services at existing clinic according to World Health Organization guidelines.
Planning begins to initiate new community outreach programs in health to serve the poorest, most rural and underserved areas in Ecuador's El Valle de los Chillos, especially the most indigenous communities located in the hills surrounding El Valle.
2006
Official 501(3)c non profit charity status granted by the IRS and fundraising begins with the establishment of a our original website www.healtheclinic.org.
Organizing begins to establish a community-based clinic to be owned and operated by the local community, in El Valle de los Chillos, Ecuador.
The area's first cooperative non profit government program is established with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health to distribute childhood vaccines and tuberculosis treatment to free of charge to patients in El Valle through HealtheClinic programs.
Children in pilot malnutrition treatment program noted to thrive.
2007
HealtheClinic open the area's first independent, community-based health care center established to deliver basic medical and dental care to area children and their families.
HealtheClinic joins with Fundacíon Aliñambi, and Manna Project International to undertake a community wide survey of 1200 homes in education, socioeconomic status and health. For more info visit www.mannaproject.org or go to our Partners page.
Children enrolled in pilot program in malnutrition continue to make steady gains in height and weight. Increased attentiveness at school is noted, absenteeism due to illness is markedly diminished.
An agreement is reached with La Fundacíon Aliñambi to host visiting students and volunteers from North America and Europe in a clean and safe environment where they can interact with children and families. Here volunteers may choose to participate in projects as diverse as teaching English, practical job skills, such as wood working and baking, or in the community-based health clinic.
HealtheClinic holds its first fundraiser in Ridgefield, Connecticut, attended by more than 200 supporters.
2005
A team of volunteers, including Danbury Hospital Pediatrics Department Chairman, Dr. Jack Fong, organize to apply for official 501(3)c status with the United States Internal Revenue Service.
HealtheClinic's begins to organize its first long term programs to serve children and families in rural Ecuador.
The first program approved is a program addressing the sobering statistic that more than 75% of all children in Ecuador suffer from malnutrition and stunted growth. The pilot program, administered by La Fundacíon Aliñambi, follows 180 children, ages 1-7, over a 5 year period in which they receive daily vitamin and iron supplementation, and quarterly de-worming treatment.
2003
Medical Missions continue, serving thousands of people who are otherwise without medical care. Most medicines are provided ensuring proper treatment for illnesses and injuries.
An agreement is reached to establish become a long term medicine distribution partner for Americares, in Quito, Ecuador and surrounding areas.
2004
Medical missions continue to schools, churches, community buildings, homes, and a new site: La Fundacíon Aliñambi, a home for former street children, providing education, jobs training, medical care, and a loving home to over 100 children.
A non profit corporation, HealtheClinic Incorporated, is registered with the Secretary of State of Connecticut. Its mission to help establish community based healthcare in the developing world. With a focus on every community's most precious resource: its children
2002
The first medical mission trips are organized to serve rural communities in Ecuador by interested American medical volunteers, distributing thousands of dollars worth of medicine generously donated by Americares, of Stamford, CT www.americares.org.
2001
HealtheClinic's founding members spend 7 months in Latin America studying the differences between one of the regions most advanced health systems (Chile) and one its poorest functioning (Ecuador) while volunteering at local medical facilities ranging from missionary clinics in a shanty towns, to the national government hospitals.