Our work to build healthy communities, families and individuals is at the heart of HCI’s vision for social change. By partnering with a range of partners, from village health committees to government agencies, we help build the means to improve maternal, newborn and child health, ensure proper nutrition and combat infectious diseases.
Health and Sanitation
Sohatak Bel Deni: the launching of HCI’s specially tailored healthy eating habits manual in Lebanon
Children, Education and Empowerment, Farm to School, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon
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Oct 282009
Every child deserves to be healthy; the proverb “healthy body, healthy mind” says it all; access to a good nutritious meal and developing healthy eating habits are vital for every child’s well being. In 2009, HCI introduced the “Farm to School Program” in Lebanon, where small scale farmers, low income students, and unemployed women living [...]
Farm to School Project: Expanding Regionally
Agriculture, Children, Education and Empowerment, Farm to School, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon, Youth
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Jul 302009
The “Farm to School program brings healthy food from local farms to thousands of poor school-aged children in low-income remote villages. Moreover, the program teaches students about healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime. In addition, the use of local products in school meals and educational activities provides a new direct market for local [...]
Introducing the Farm to School Program in Lebanon
Agriculture, Agriculture and Food, Children, Health and Sanitation, Lebanon, Woman
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Apr 292009
HCI launched this week its new project in Lebanon, the Farm to School program, with the objectives of improving the economic stability of low-income local small farmers in rural areas, providing jobs for vulnerable local women in food preparation, providing healthy meals for thousands of poor students, improving the nutritional health of poor school-aged children, [...]
Celebrating International Woman’s Day in Gaza by Promoting Cancer Early Detection among Women
Gaza Strip, Health and Sanitation, Palestine, Woman
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Mar 102009
On the 8th of March 2009, HCI worked cooperatively with its Gaza-based partner, the Aid & Hope Center for the Care of Cancer Patients, to celebrate the International Woman’s Day by promoting cancer early detection, particularly mammograms test which is among the best early detection methods for breast cancer among women. Breast cancer if detected [...]
HCI Expands Badly-Needed Health Services for Displaced Sudanese
Health and Sanitation, Sudan
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Oct 242008
For the past five years, HCI has been working for the well being of the estimated 11,000 internally displaced people of Salama settlement, who have fled the violence in the south and west of their country and now live south of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Here they face chronic poverty, both high unemployment and [...]
Bringing hope of New Kalabsha and Garf Hussien: An HCI specialty
Egypt, Health and Sanitation
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Aug 212008
Around the West of Lake Nasser in Aswan, the settlements of New Kalabsha and Garf Hussien felt a breeze of fresh air, arriving when HCI-funded medical care mobile units paid them a visit, and offered medical and health care services covering skin diseases, dental medicine, intestinal diseases, gynecology and much more. The residents of these [...]
