WABA is a global network of organizations and individuals who believe breastfeeding is the right of all children and mothers and who dedicate themselves to protect, promote and support this right. WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration and works in close liaison with UNICEF.
These are the specialised support arms of the WABA network. The Task Forces are:
Code Compliance
Mother Support
Men’s Initiative
Youth Initiative
Gender
Research
Women & Work
Health Care Practices
Global Advocacy
Local Governance
World Faith’s primary goal is to deincentivize religious violence. We do this by:
•Countering narratives of Otherism by encouraging humanization through volunteering together, and
•Addressing the underlying economic issues that make violence possible.
By mobilizing religiously diverse youth to design and implement development projects, we counter each driver of violence. We break down the narrative of conflict by creating opportunities for young people to recognize the humanity of their fellow youth while volunteering together, and provide a non-violent path for young people to make positive change in their communities.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. WHO have more than 7000 people working in 150 country offices, in 6 regional offices and at their headquarters in Geneva. WHO's primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system.
The main areas of work are:
Health systems
Promoting health through the life-course
Noncommunicable diseases
Communicable diseases
Corporate services
Preparedness, surveillance, and response
WHO's current priorities include communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases; sexual and reproductive health, development, and aging; nutrition, food security and healthy eating; occupational health; substance abuse; and driving the development of reporting, publications, and networking.
World Story Exchange partners with schools and educational organizations to offer documentary storytelling workshops to youth ages 7-23. Our workshops invite students to explore their lives, their dreams, their concerns, while finding their creative voice using a variety of media tools and artistic approaches. We teach photography, filmmaking, writing, painting and drawing - all from a documentary perspective with ethnographic ethics.
Yspaniola’s short-term goal is to create vertical access to quality education in Batey Libertad, from pre-K classes to university scholarships. Our long-term goal is to replicate these programs in other bateyes and marginalized communities across the Dominican Republic. We aim to create a network of communities with access to quality education and social and economic capital, so that individuals can advocate and act on their own behalf to petition their government for change. At the same time, we will continue to work, through service-learning trips for students from the United States and Mexico and volunteer programs for Dominicans, to strengthen the Dominican and international coalition that supports civil and human rights for these communities.
Yunus Social Business (YSB) helps entrepreneurs in emerging economies build social businesses that solve the kind of human problems normally tackled by charities, foundations or aid agencies. Through long-term loans and mentoring we help social businesses scale and achieve financial self-sustainability, enabling them to re-invest 100% of their profits back into tackling the challenges they were set up to solve.