ABOUT JustWorld
OUR MISSION:
JustWorld International acts as a catalyst for positive change in the developing world:
- by working with local partner organizations to provide basic education, nutrition, health and hygiene programs, and vocational training for children in impoverished communities.
- by raising awareness and funds in the international equestrian community and its networks to support JustWorld programs and projects.
- by providing young people with the opportunity to actively participate in humanitarian work.
Founded by former international equestrian champion Jessica Newman, JustWorld International is a recognized 501(c)(3) charitable organization in the United States and a registered Association 1901 in France. Local branches have also been established in Mexico and Honduras. JustWorld International has no political or religious affiliation.
Our Philosophy and Vision
While many nonprofit organizations focus primarily on providing short-term assistance to developing countries, JustWorld’s goals are long-term. Studies worldwide show that education is a key to breaking the cycle of poverty. JustWorld International focuses its efforts on some of the poorest communities in countries such as Brazil, Cambodia, Honduras, Kenya, Mexico, and Senegal where public education is limited or inaccessible, threatening many children’s chances for productive lives.
JustWorld helps children who live in poverty that is unimaginable to many people in the developed world. Some examples include:
- Cambodian children who contribute to a family’s meager income and food supply by scavenging barefoot through the vast city dump that contains the shacks these families call home.
- Honduran children who have little chance of attending “free” public schools because their families cannot afford the $150 to $300 needed each year to pay for class fees, school uniforms, and daily transportation.
- Children in the minority Garifuna community of Honduras orphaned by HIV/AIDS and left with extended families who struggle to provide them with food, let alone school fees.
- Kenyan children living in a community where the majority of households live on less than $1.64 a day.
- Brazilian children in remote areas of the country with little access to medical care and education.
- Senegalese children sent from the countryside to the city for religious education but with no means of acquiring secular or vocational skills and who are left begging in the streets.
In these communities, lack of schools, few family resources, reliance on child labor to meet family needs, and the effects of HIV/AIDS prevent many children from receiving much, if any, education.
- JustWorld envisions a world in which all children have access to education, nutrition, and the opportunity to create their own bright future.
- Because JustWorld believes in developing culturally sensitive, sustainable projects, it targets communities where local organizations have evolved to help children who often fall beyond the reach of government and large-scale humanitarian programs.
- Recognizing that poor communities need help feeding and clothing their children to prepare them for school, JustWorld and its partners provide food, water, and other supplies that address some of the immediate needs of desperately poor children while offering education that helps equip these children for lives of self-sufficiency.
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