Who We Serve
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We envision a world in which donors, volunteers, healthcare providers, and patients have overcome all barriers to ensure universal access to modern medicine and modern medical best practices.
More than just aid, impoverished communities all over the world need empowerment through permanent infrastructure, training and education. With a focus on medicine, HEPTO seeks to partner with nations to grow independence and teach community leaders to provide for themselves.
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The Healthcare Extension, Promotion and Training Organization (HEPTO) seeks to unite donors, volunteers, staff, and communities around the goal of advancing universal access to modern medicine and modern medical best practices by establishing permanent infrastructure and continuing medical training and education in impoverished and traditionally underrepresented communities world wide.
By working directly with community leaders, we seek to overcome the language, distance, and cultural barriers that often undermine the efforts of other healthcare outreach organizations, and empower impoverished and war-torn communities to treat illness, educate populace, and promote modern public health practices independently.
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Empower. Enliven. Enrich.
It's how lives are changed for good.
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SWOT
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The Healthcare Extension, Promotion and Training Organization seeks to end recurring turmoil in East Africa through training, education and developing permanent infrastructure.
Our approach is three-fold. First, we seek to empower communities by joining government officials, community leaders, and residents to lay down modern, efficient infrastructure.
We enliven communities through hope for a brighter, more independent future.
Then we enrich these communities through education and expanded outreach, teaching them how to use and maintain their new assets themselves.
Our approach is three-fold. First, we seek to empower communities by joining government officials, community leaders, and residents to lay down modern, efficient infrastructure.
We enliven communities through hope for a brighter, more independent future.
Then we enrich these communities through education and expanded outreach, teaching them how to use and maintain their new assets themselves.
We seek growth through permanent change.
To date, most organizations providing aid to impoverished nations in East Africa and throughout the world have focused their efforts on relief, often overlooking the underlying cause of tumult.
Disease outbreaks, famine, drought - they are recurring causes of dire, preventable tragedies.
That's our focus: prevention. We value the work done by relief-based organizations, but we believe consistent prevention of these dreadful conditions is the key to a bright future for everyone.
To date, most organizations providing aid to impoverished nations in East Africa and throughout the world have focused their efforts on relief, often overlooking the underlying cause of tumult.
Disease outbreaks, famine, drought - they are recurring causes of dire, preventable tragedies.
That's our focus: prevention. We value the work done by relief-based organizations, but we believe consistent prevention of these dreadful conditions is the key to a bright future for everyone.
The Healthcare Extension, Promotion and Training Organization will span nations. Maintaining communication and collaboration between coordinators, educators, healthcare facilities, donors and community is vital to the success of our mission
Our founding office is currently and will remain located in Bloomington, MN, USA. From this location, we will coordinate outreach and fundraising efforts, educators, training development, and organizational growth.
Our first international hub office will be located in Jigjiga, Ethiopia. Regional hub offices will serve to coordinate efforts throughout the service district. These offices will report directly to local officials and back to the founding office in the US.
They will accept, organize, and relay reports for all regional extension offices, clinics, educators, and providers.
Regional extension offices will house a permanent clinic in any village with at least 500 families. They will coordinate and maintain satellite providers, resident and rotating, throughout designated jurisdiction.
The regional extension office will be responsible for administration and record keeping from all associated villages.
The organization will operate under the leadership of a Board of Directors. Each regional hub office will be led by a regional management team who will direct the day-to-day operations on the ground. Managing bodies will be established at each regional extension office, who will be responsible for organizing satellite management.
Our founding office is currently and will remain located in Bloomington, MN, USA. From this location, we will coordinate outreach and fundraising efforts, educators, training development, and organizational growth.
Our first international hub office will be located in Jigjiga, Ethiopia. Regional hub offices will serve to coordinate efforts throughout the service district. These offices will report directly to local officials and back to the founding office in the US.
They will accept, organize, and relay reports for all regional extension offices, clinics, educators, and providers.
Regional extension offices will house a permanent clinic in any village with at least 500 families. They will coordinate and maintain satellite providers, resident and rotating, throughout designated jurisdiction.
The regional extension office will be responsible for administration and record keeping from all associated villages.
The organization will operate under the leadership of a Board of Directors. Each regional hub office will be led by a regional management team who will direct the day-to-day operations on the ground. Managing bodies will be established at each regional extension office, who will be responsible for organizing satellite management.
Unlike other organizations, our focus at HEPTO is on ensuring reliable access to high-quality health care in remote and impoverished communities. We do this by training resident providers, those who come from or live in the communities
who traditionally lack adequate care.
The leaders in charge will be others like, myself, those who are native to these communities they volunteer to serve. This will allow for the highest level of insight as we endeavor to evolve our outreach.
HEPTO will limit opportunities to exploit our program for personal gain by creating a broader spectrum of power and responsibility.
HEPTO seeks to succeed where other aid-based organizations have failed to empower communities to provide for themselves. As a child growing up in a small village in Ethiopia, worked in Somalia and the refugee in Kenya, I witnessed firsthand the corruption and inefficiencies of the current medical aid model.
who traditionally lack adequate care.
The leaders in charge will be others like, myself, those who are native to these communities they volunteer to serve. This will allow for the highest level of insight as we endeavor to evolve our outreach.
HEPTO will limit opportunities to exploit our program for personal gain by creating a broader spectrum of power and responsibility.
HEPTO seeks to succeed where other aid-based organizations have failed to empower communities to provide for themselves. As a child growing up in a small village in Ethiopia, worked in Somalia and the refugee in Kenya, I witnessed firsthand the corruption and inefficiencies of the current medical aid model.
HEPTO is a newly founded organization. We are building and expanding our network in here the USA and the communities we serve. Our budget is minimal this time.
We are adamant about demonstrating honesty, transparency, and accountability to win the hearts and minds of both donors and the communities we serve. Because of our limited budget, we cannot afford to hire qualified employees. We depend on volunteers and board members time and efforts.
We are adamant about demonstrating honesty, transparency, and accountability to win the hearts and minds of both donors and the communities we serve. Because of our limited budget, we cannot afford to hire qualified employees. We depend on volunteers and board members time and efforts.
Economic development is a vital component of long-term progress among impoverished communities in East Africa. We believe it could even be said that poverty in these communities is a public health crisis. Therefore, our plan includes consideration for the development of economic health.
We will train healthcare providers native to the communities they will serve. This will create permanent, professional jobs and business ownership opportunities for current residents.
We will train paraprofessionals native to the communities they serve to manage records, facilities, etc. for newly established healthcare facilities.
We will partner with local community leaders to promote the development of trade opportunities among neighboring villages to increase food production, decrease production burdens, and thereby address malnutrition.
We will work with the international community to bring permanent jobs in medically-aligned fields such as medical record keeping and digital transcription.
We will partner with, educate, and support entrepreneurship in fields whose success will benefit their native community.
We understand that to effect permanent change we must bring up leaders from the communities we serve. Therefore, we will work to identify and prepare emerging leaders to make progress in their community further.
We will train healthcare providers native to the communities they will serve. This will create permanent, professional jobs and business ownership opportunities for current residents.
We will train paraprofessionals native to the communities they serve to manage records, facilities, etc. for newly established healthcare facilities.
We will partner with local community leaders to promote the development of trade opportunities among neighboring villages to increase food production, decrease production burdens, and thereby address malnutrition.
We will work with the international community to bring permanent jobs in medically-aligned fields such as medical record keeping and digital transcription.
We will partner with, educate, and support entrepreneurship in fields whose success will benefit their native community.
We understand that to effect permanent change we must bring up leaders from the communities we serve. Therefore, we will work to identify and prepare emerging leaders to make progress in their community further.
There are many organizations worldwide that provide relief for one or more of the issues discussed by The HEPTO. Though these organizations are ultimately allies in the endeavor to end the turmoil in East Africa, they should be considered competitors. As we attempt to build credibility and solicit donations, our actions will be compared to these organizations during the decision-making process.
- CRISIS
- Crisis relief organizations such as CatholicCharities and the American Red Cross seek to provide primary relief from acute disaster but do not account for disaster prevention. The result of their efforts is temporary and creates a cycle of dependence as recipients of their generosity are relieved of immediate suffering, but not empowered to prevent or lessen future disaster. These organizations can capitalize on reputation and the urgency of emergency relief to cull donations from large and small donors.
- MEDICAL
- Medical intervention organizations such as Doctors Without Borders seek to preserve lives in areas where access to health care is limited by poverty, natural or human-made disaster, and war. Their intervention is reactive and non-permanent. These organizations can capitalize on reputation, the urgency of emergency medical need, and guilt to cull donations from large and small donors.
- CHILD RELIEF
- Organizations such as Save the Children (https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us) seek to provide temporary relief from acute but varying threat from disaster to disease. They offer extreme medical treatments including organ transplants. Their focus on children and pristine reputation makes them very effective fundraisers.
- FAMINE
- Hunger relief is perhaps the most visible small donor opportunities, probably because hunger is currently the most far-reaching worldwide epidemic. Organizations like World Vision, Bread for the World, and The Hunger Project are international hunger relief programs. Their visibility and local charity make them more tangible to prospective donors
Our Leadership Team
Abdi M. Jama BOARD MEMBER |
Halimo Ahmed Board member and Trainer |
Ahmed Jama Board member |
Consultants and Mentors
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