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Hope Worldwide
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Hope Worldwide is an international relief and development agency with 20 years of experience in community-based HIV/AIDS work in Africa. |
According to UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, Hope Worldwide has developed "Best Practice" community models that they use across Africa. These "Best Practices" will impact more than 145,000 orphans over the next 5 years. Hope worldwide began in 1989 as the Centre D"Assistance in Abidjan and initiated thr33 small projects in 1991.
In 2004, Dr. Mark Ottenweller from Hope Worldwide worked with Marion Bunch from RFFA to establish The ANCHOR Partnership with the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation and the Emory Schools of Public Health and Nursing. Dr. Marc Aguirre serves as the Regional Orphan and Vulnerable Children Advisor for all Anchor programs. Dr. Ottenweller, also of Hope worldwide, serves on the OVC Task Force of the US Government while Dr. Aguirre serves on UNICEF's Regional Inter-Agency Task Team on Orphans for Africa. Hope Worldwide currently works in over 60 countries around the world. It is registered with USAID and has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Together with its Anchor Partners, Hope Worldwide would like to expand the projects and their impact to sites around the world. |
