Welcome to Humana People to People“The Federation for Associations connected to the International HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Movement”, (Humana People to People) is an international membership organization, which at present comprises 34 national associations working in 42 countries.Humana People to People places itself in the frontline of the struggle for development. The movement is built on the understanding of the people as a decisive force in creating development. The people who carry the development must be trained and equipped with the tools that enable them to transform their dreams and wishes for a better world into practical actions making a difference.
The overall purpose of the Humana People to People Movement is to create development where it is needed in an effort to minimize the gap between the rich and the poor.
The members are nonprofit organizations, working in the field of international development and cooperation. Humana People to People members presently operate more than 320 development projects reaching out to more than 12 million people on a yearly basis within the areas of basic health, HIV & AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development. Furthermore, about 6 million people are reached annually through the secondhand clothes sales and distribution system.
HUMANA People to People members work with pressing issues facing mankind around the globe. Education, Health, HIV & AIDS and Food Security represent 4 of its major pillars.
Today, projects include, but are not limited to;
• 24 Teacher Training Colleges, which annually graduate more than 2,200 qualified and compassionate teachers for the rural areas of Angola, Mozambique and Malawi;
• 65 Community Development Programs called “Child Aid” operated in 10 Southern African countries, India, China and Latin America.
• 56 HIV & AIDS Programs known as “Total Control of the Epidemic” are implemented in Southern Africa, India and China.
• 20 Farmers' Clubs Projects with more than 70,000 members train small scale farmers in Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and China.
Furthermore, a number of Vocational Schools, Environmental Projects, Children’s Towns for AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children, are operated on a daily basis.
Humana People to People organizations are known for their implementation capacity, cost efficiency, well established track-records and their close cooperation with National Governments.
The Federation has a 30 year history of working with people at grass root level, building people’s own capacity to help themselves - thus creating sustainable improvements.
Humana People to People works with long-term development programs and concentrates on creating development through projects within areas of health, HIV& AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development and income generating projects like sale of second hand clothes.
The international headquarters is based in Zimbabwe. The headquarters is the home and meeting place for the movement, and for others interested in development.
The complex is designed by the Danish architect Jan Utzon, and was inaugurated in 1998.
Contact information:
The Federation for Associations connected to the International Humana People to People
Movement,
Av. Louis-Casaď 18,
CH 1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel:+41 22 747 7540 - Fax:+41 22 747 7616
Humana People to People International
Headquarters,
Murgwi Estate, Shamva, Zimbabwe
Tel. +263 912 420 420 - Fax:+44 207900 1699
Email: hqchair@humana.org
www.humana.org
See also: www.humana.org/dns and www.humana.org/tce | 
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