How you can help
World Health Organization
For overall information on global health problems and projects, including reports by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, see the organization's Web site at www.who.int.
United Nations
Children's Fund
The US Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
Toll-free: 1-800-FOR-KIDS
(1-800-367-5437)
www.unicefusa.org
UNICEF focuses on vaccinations and other preventive care for children and women.
Doctors without Borders / Medecins sans Frontieres
PO Box 1869
Merrifield, VA 22116-9644
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Toll-free: 1-888-392-0392
Doctors Without Borders, through its affiliates in Holland and France, operates various medical programs in Cambodia.
World Vision
PO Box 9716
Federal Way, WA 98063-9716
Toll-free: 1-800-777-5777
www.worldvision.org
Operates primary health care programs in several developing countries.
Cambodian Health
Committee
c/o Center for Blood Research
800 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-278-3464
A small Cambodian-based organization that runs an acclaimed tuberculosis treatment in Svay Rieng, one of the most isolated and impoverished provinces in the country.
Sihanouk Hospital
Center of Hope
c/o Hope Worldwide
353 West Lancaster Ave.
Wayne, PA 19087
Phone: 610-254-8800
www.hopeworldwide.org
This Phnom Penh hospital is among the most advanced in Cambodia. Built by the Japanese, Sihanouk/Center of Hope is staffed by physicians and other health professionals of Hope Worldwide. Offers free or nominal cost medical care to all comers and, just as critically, provides training for Cambodian doctors, nurses, and medical techniciians.
Catholic Relief Services
PO Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
www.catholicrelief.org
Toll-free: 1-800-724-2530
Catholic Relief Service's medical work in Cambodia is centered on Battambang Province, hard hit by civil war, and focuses on strengthening government health care services while helping villagers build community-based health organizations.
The Pendulum Project
1770 Massachusetts Ave.
Box 625
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.pendulumproject.org
The Pendulum Project, a Boston-based non-profit group, funds several grassroots programs in Malawi. Donations can be sent by mail or online.
Kaunda Children of Africa Foundation
Waza F. Kaunda, CEO Projects
21a Serval Road Kabulonga,
Lusaka, Zambia.
www.kaundachildrenofafrica.org
The foundation supports Kaunda's clinic in Zambia. Donations can be made by mail or online and the money earmarked for the Kaunda children
Save the Children
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
203-221-4000
or 1-800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org
The organization operates programs for children in 45 countries, including Guatemala.
Pro Redes
2a Avendida 15-37, zona 10
Guatemala City, Guatemala
011-502-333-4947
proredes@proredes.org.gt
Pro Redes is a non-profit group helping Guatemalan doctors and nurses organize health and education outreach programs in rural Guatemala.
World Education, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210-1211
Phone: 617-482-9485
www.worlded.org
World Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the
lives of the poor through health and literacy and social development
programs.
John Snow, Inc.
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 02210-1211
www.jsi.com
JSI works in over 26 countries worldwide, including Guatemala,
Russia, and Zambia, to John Snow, Inc. (JSI) to improve the health of
individuals and communities. JSI's goal is to build local capacity to
address critical health problems.
Partners In Health
641 Huntington Avenue, 1st Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-432-5256
www.pih.org
By establishing long-term relationships with communities in Haiti,
Russia, Peru and Boston, Partners In Health strives to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in
need of them.
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