IMHO Year in Review: 2013-14

Building Health Systems & Addressing Vital Humanitarian

NeedsNanda Nanthakumar, PhDIMHO Board of Directors

The Genesis of a Movement…2

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The idea of IMHO is born

2004

First health care centers in Sri Lanka open

2005

Major tsunami relief efforts undertaken & volunteer teams descend

2009

IMHO launches major relief efforts in final stages of civil conflict

2014

11 years and $3.6M of relief & development assistance

Why do we do this work?

• Our collective motivation & vision for a better tomorrow

• Our shared humanitarian duty• We are building more than just an

organization• Message of hope• Thousands of lives have been positively

impacted by our shared efforts

Persistent Challenges in Sri Lanka

• Livelihoods/Empowerment• Hospital Development (strengthening

systems & infrastructure)• Water & Sanitation• Mental Health & Neuro-

Developmental Disorders• Rehabilitation for Amputees• Primary Care• Non-communicable diseases care

and management

Serving Resettled Communities

War, poverty, and natural disasters don’t discriminate…and

neither do we• IMHO has supported communities in need in 15

countries since our inception

Lives Forever Impacted• A statistic is merely a number, but the

measure of one life is unquantifiable

2012 Efforts & Financials

EXPENSES• Programs: $291,479• In-Kind Gifts: $71,050

2012 Geographic Focus

2013 Efforts & Financials

EXPENSES• Programs: $384,478

2013 Geographic Focus

Hurricane Sandy Relief (2012/2013): $5,000

• Assisting residents of New York & New Jersey affected by Hurricane Sandy: $5,000

Ethiopia Deaf Education: $7,903

• Deaf advocacy materials support

• Hiring a deaf teacher & deaf program coordinator in Bahir Dar

Ethiopia Service Trip• 2-week service trip in August 2013 with 12

volunteers

Haiti Development Efforts: $3,890

• Team volunteer visits to medical clinic• Providing a regular breakfast to school children

Philippines Typhoon Relief: $5,000

For victims of Typhoon Haiyan

India Flood Relief: $2,500For flood victims in Uttarakhand

Livelihoods Support: $22,601

Throughout NE Sri Lanka

Three-Wheeler Livelihoods Support for Paraplegics:

$116,200For benefit of paraplegics and their families

throughout NE Sri Lanka

Children’s Education & Support: $29,559

• Student hostel renovations• Children’s home improvements & toilets• Distribution of shoes and socks to hundreds of children• Financial assistance to students in Kilinochchi• Bicycles

Vocational Training Center: $25,388

• For training of young adults in Batticaloa

Mental Health: $32,651• Facility renovations

and improvements at National Institute of Mental Health

• Multi-disciplinary mental health team in Tellipalai

• Ongoing support for facilities and services at Kalmunai Rehab Unit

• Initial autism project support

Handicap Toilets: $10,575• Constructing specially accessible toilets for the

benefit of disabled persons and their families

Amputee Rehab & Support: $19,380

• Physiotherapy• Wheelchairs and

mobility devices• Support for key

local partners committed to serving these vulnerable persons

Mobile Clinics: $9,491• Ongoing support for mobile clinics in Moolai and

Sandilipay

Hospital Development: $84,068

• Batticaloa Teaching Hospital• Jaffna Teaching Hospital• Kalmunai Base Hospital• Kurunegala Teaching Hospital

Batticaloa Hospital Development:

$15,750• Motorcycles for community services

transportation

Kurunegala Hospital Development: $5,000

• Renovation of women’s orthopedic ward

Jaffna Hospital Development: $49,137

• Ongoing Diabetic Center Support & Development

• Equipment• Patient Services• Neonatal Intensive

Care Unit (NICU)• Staff Salaries• Dental Care

Kalmunai Hospital Development: $14,181

• Mental Health Rehab Unit, staff salaries, capacity-building, etc.

Next Steps: We Need Your Support!

1. Continued support for paraplegics through three-wheeler livelihoods support program

2. Establish a Center for Neurological Disorders (including autism and spectrum related disorders)

3. Provide a bus to provide regular transportation for patients in/around Jaffna to cancer center in Tellipalai

4. Provide ultrasound scanners for screening/treating obstetric patients in Vanni & Jaffna

5. Continued support for livelihoods development efforts

“The highest prayer in this world is service, the greatest devotion is loving the people

around us: and the noblest character trait is divine compassion for all living creatures.”

~Swami Chinmayananda

“The highest prayer in this world is service, the greatest devotion is loving the people

around us: and the noblest character trait is divine compassion for all living creatures.”

~Swami Chinmayananda

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