Story Wall
At its core, humanitarian work is about people connecting, through day-to-day interactions that transform our world. Enjoy and learn from these stories, and add your own voice to the chorus.
Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow Oyut Bayaraa holding the Mongolian flag with colleagues during a Clubhouse training at Gateway in Greenville, South Carolina. At Gateway, Oyut completed an intensive New Clubhouse Development training and developed an action plan designed to start a Clubhouse in Mongolia.
Please join the Hilton Prize Coalition in congratulating the newest winner of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, SHOFCO (Shining Hope for Communities)! Based in Nairobi, Kenya, SHOFCO is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale transformation in urban slums.
Hilton Prize Coalition’s Fellows Program Manager, Austen Brower, met with Jama Moffett, Director at the Petoskey Club, a branch of Clubhouse International. Clubhouses offer people living with mental illness a caring and safe environment so they can fully participate as valued and respected members of society.
Tsega Negussie Teffera, Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow, SOS Childrens Villages “From Studies to Practice: Immersion”
To mark their 50th anniversary, St Christopher’s is building a new, world-class education center. This Learning Hub will support their vision in which all dying people have access to the care and support they need—when and wherever they need it.
ECPAT International’s Network Development Intern, Mairi Calder, explains the meaning of “trafficking of children for sexual purposes” and highlights the critical nature of ECPAT’s advocacy.
In Lebanon, Humanity & Inclusion’s mobile teams of physiotherapists and social workers care for the injured and disabled refugees who would otherwise have no access to treatment.
Congratulations Amref for winning the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation!
Partner In Health was featured as The Economist calls for universal care.
Casa Alianza and IRCT announce the release of the Trauma Informed Care Curriculum, a comprehensive set of materials to help children affected by multiple forms of trauma in Latin American countries.
In this video from BRAC, Jamalida Bibi, one of our 800 Rohingya community mobilisation volunteers, goes door-to-door six days a week to deliver life-saving messages.
Tostan International helps women become leaders in their communities by educating them on their rights.
International Rescue Committee created a short video showcasing 5 inventions made by refugees.
Watch PATH’s CEO and president Steve Davis speak about the future of global health at TEDxSeattle.
Tsega Negussie Teffera, Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow, SOS Childrens Villages “From Studies to Practice: Outcomes”
Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO; Heifer International “Water. Clean Water”
Operation Smile in Madagascar launched a feeding program to help make sure that children with cleft are a healthy enough weight to undergo surgery. In addition providing nutritional counseling for the families of patients, the program offers a 6-week supply of MANA peanut paste — a nutritional supplement for underweight children.
Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO; Heifer International “Prepared to Lead”
Tsega Negussie Teffera, Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow, SOS Childrens Villages “From Studies to Practice: Mentorship”
Laurie Adams, Chief Executive Officer, Women for Women International “Expensive Expectations”
In Bangladesh, Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow with BRAC USA Hrithik Bansal visits one of BRAC’s programs with an eye towards developing a strategy to meet the changing aspirations of beneficiaries as their living standards improve.
Dr. Dave Ross, President and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health “Gateways to Health”
Kathy Magee, Co-Founder and President and Bill Magee, Co-Founder and CEO, Operation Smile “Contact Sport”
In this clip, “Changing with the Times,” HI’s Jeff Meer describes the process behind the organization’s new name, Humanity & Inclusion.
Women for Women International‘s new campaign, “Match Her Courage,” aims to ensure that the most marginalized and impoverished women on the planet have a chance at reaching their full potential.
Sharad Aggarwal, BRAC “Mechanics of Collaboration”
By amplifying the voices and good work of Laureate organization in Nepal the roots of collaboration were planted. Read more about the creation of the Leading Thoughts Series.
HPC Fellow Josh Tobing studied the worldwide effects of supporting children and communities at SOS Children’s Villages. Read more in this blog post.
Land mines also factor into this “Leading Thoughts” clip of Jeff Meer, ED of Humanity & Inclusion (fka Handicap International). “What’s in a Name?”
Team members from Humanity & Inclusion (fka Handicap International) carefully deactivate an explosive in Colombia. The complexities of demining are the subject of this NPR podcast, which features HI. (Photo by Jules Tusseau/HI)
BLOG: In 2017, the Coalition’s three signature programs created the opportunity for more collaboration and impact in the humanitarian space.
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Blog: Operation Smile HPC Fellow, Ana Rabogliatti, reflects on her time working on the International Student Leadership Conference, a Therapeutic Food Nutrition Program, and actually “doing” research!
The next generation of global leaders is critical to the success of sustainable development. Learn more from this guest blog by PATH‘s director of strategic initiatives, Katharine Kreis.
“To take communities to a living income is to engage them in the value chain–not just to be producers but also to be involved as aggregators…” – Pierre Ferrari, President and CEO; Heifer International
Professor Tiffany Basciano advocates for more responsibility-sharing in the refugee crisis – a global civic duty. Read more.
Reflection “I have found a deep passion to work towards the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout peacebuilding efforts.” – Ruby Holmes, HPC Fellow HI USA
Laureate Spotlight: Women for Women International has served more than 462,000 women survivors of war in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Sudan.
Hilton Prize Coalition Fellows Year 2 Snapshot! 25 Fellows, 16 Cities, and 8 Nationalities!
“You will most likely think and operate differently, so instead of trying to fit into each other’s way of operating, learn about your differences and leverage what you have.” -Meredith Fabian-Ludke, Covenant House Read more
Wendy Pearlman offers insights into her book, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, which is based on over 300 interviews of displaced Syrians weaved into a collective narrative. Read more
#HPCFellow, Catherine May, finds that building partnerships frequently leads to the realization that different sectors speak “different languages.” Learn more!
Laurie Adams, CEO of @PrizeCoalition member Women for Women Int’l, describes in the Huffington Post the work to empower women in the South Sudan, where sexual violence is a tool of war.
Leaders of 16 Laureate organizations convened in LA last week to work on the next collaborative models that will transform the sector. Read about it here.
For Aravind Eye Care System, a Hilton Prize Laureate, every day is World Sight Day. In a year they provide services to more than four million people and perform some 463,000 eye surgeries. Learn more!
Vivian Peng, Creative Activist at Doctors Without Borders/MSF, takes readers on her epic journey of becoming a humanitarian professional in this blog post, “From Intern to Field Worker.”
Watch Kenn Dudek, President of Fountain House, share his Leading Thoughts. “People with serious mental illness die 10-25 years, depending on the country, earlier than everyone else.” #WorldMentalHealthDay
This pilot production of the Hilton Prize Coalition Storytelling Program captures stories told by Laureate staff working on the ground in Nepal before, during and after the great earthquake of 2015.
