Hesperian gratefully acknowledges our partners from around the world. Our Funding Partners, Field Partners, and Technology Partners provide us with generous financial and organizational support. Hundreds of partners from around the world work with us to develop, update, distribute, translate, and adapt our health guides – we could not do what we do without them! Together we work to make health for all a reality.
Featured Partners
UnaMesa, Palo Alto, CA
UnaMesa Association began working with Hesperian in 2008 and is a key partner, providing us with invaluable support for Hesperian’s new digital resource center. UnaMesa has worked with us to develop and field-test a new tool to let people create their own health materials based on our content, the wiki-based platform to share online content across languages, and supported the development of the new image library. UnaMesa also helped to build and test a mobile health application for Android and iPhones. Greg Wolff, the founder of UnaMesa, believes that major advances in health will come from putting appropriate technologies and reliable information into the hands of community health workers served by Hesperian.
Rural Health and Education Service Trust (RHEST), Nepal
Dr. Aruna Uprety is the founder of the Rural Health Education Services Trust (RHEST), a health and education nonprofit working in Nepal, and chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation’s Stop Girl Trafficking Program. RHEST has translated and distributed the Nepali editions of Where Women Have No Doctor and A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities; their translation of A Book for Midwives is currently underway. During the summer of 2010, Aruna spent several weeks at our offices as a Hesperian Fellow, contributing her extensive knowledge of nutrition, disaster relief, and women’s health to the development of the New Where There Is No Doctor, and other book projects.
Funding Partners
Hesperian’s funding partners are integral to our work and we are deeply grateful to them. Current funders include:
Arntz Family Foundation
Berger-Marks Foundation
Bushrod H. Campbell & Ada F. Hall Charity Fund
Cogan Family Foundation
Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
Flora Family Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grousbeck Family Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
International Foundation
Ipas
Kadoorie Charitable Foundation
Kind World Foundation
McCall MacBain Foundation
New Field Foundation
Partnership Foundation
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Dorothy & Jonathan Rintels Charitable Foundation
May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Levi Strauss Foundation
Sweetgrass Foundation
Marty Tomberg Charitable Fund
United Methodist Church — Women’s Division
Wang-McLaren Foundation
West Foundation
Bernard E. & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation
Women Working Worldwide
Field Partners
Hesperian guides are developed in close collaboration with our field partners worldwide. Working closely with non-governmental organizations of all sizes helps us develop culturally appropriate, state-of-the art health information. A few of the many partners who have helped us to develop, update, translate, adapt and distribute our health guides this year include:
Ability in Disability Initiative, Nigeria
ACOTCHI, Guatemala
AMDV, Honduras
Arab Resource Collective, Cyprus and Lebanon
Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC), Hong Kong
Berkeley Free Clinic, US
Centro de Innovación en Tecnología Alternativa A.C.(CITA), Mexico
CHETNA, India
Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN),Ecuador
Equipo Maíz, El Salvador
Estamos, Mozambique
Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), Bangladesh
GRACE, Kenya
Haitian Health Foundation, Haiti
Human Development Center “Tree of Life” (HDC), Kyrgyzstan
Jagruti, India
John Dau Foundation, Sudan
Journey Woman, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, US
Likhaan, Philippines
Local Solutions Foundation, Mongolia
“Lotos” Disability Awareness and Learning Center (DALC), Azerbaijan
MCC (Mennonite Central Committee), Laos
Pakistan Medical Association, Pakistan
Partners in Health, Haiti and US
RHEST, Nepal
Save the Children, Nepal, UK, Tibet Autonomous Region
SEWA, India
World Vision, Taiwan, Thailand, Zimbabwe, and US
To view more Hesperian field partners please see our Annual Report.
Technology Partners
Our technology partners play a key role in the conceptualization and ongoing development of the digital resource center. Our partners include:
UnaMesa Association
Dimagi/Commcare
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley School of Information
Ebrary
Adobe
Intel