Partners

IPOP's partners are its ultimate inspiration. We are humbled by the commitment of our professional colleagues who work to deliver quality medical care to children under very difficult conditions.

Heal Africa

IPOP currently partners with HEAL Africa (Health, Education, Community Action and Leadership), a Congolese non-profit that began in 1995 and is headquartered in Goma, DRC. With a core of medical and public health specialists, HEAL Africa deals with the broad impact of war and poverty on its people, addressing the physical, psychological and economic consequences with a wide variety of programs. IPOP partners with HEAL Africa because of their holistic, grassroots community approach and clear record of accomplishment in the region. IPOP programs in Goma are aimed to reach the greater medical community in Eastern DRC as well.


Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

IPOP partners with Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), an Indian non-profit organization founded in 1984 by physicians from Mysore who as medical students began to care for the most marginalized in their surrounding community. SVYM is at the leading edge of providing a holistic community-based approach to rectifying the social and preventable determinants of ill health.

SVYM's main campus is in Saragur, a town of approximately 15,000 in the state of Karnataka in southern India. Today, SVYM operates a rural secondary level hospital there that provides care to local tribal communities and villages. As part of their community-based approach, SVYM has also created a complete school system for the children of the region, and developed numerous educational outreach programs aimed at dealing with many of the root causes of poor health and welfare in India.

Saragur, India