Student at Bebor Model Primary School, Bodo City, Nigeria

Mary Lou Hoffa and Leslie Boehrer staffing the Timmy Table at the 2004 high school Battle of the Bands

Maria Lataillade volunteering in Haiti

Volunteers packing vitamins in the Timmy Foundation office

Wilkins, a student from Haiti, after his clubfoot surgery.

Our Vision

A world in which basic healthcare and education are available to all children.

Our Mission

Building healthy futures worldwide, one child at a time. We accomplish this by strengthening community-based health and education initiatives and by empowering young people to share their energy and compassion.

Mission Objectives

A. Strengthen community-based health and education initiatives

• Organize international service trips
• Collect and distribute appropriate medicines, medical equipment/supplies, and educational materials
• Provide funds to grow outreach
• Advocate for these initiatives and the people they serve

B. Empower young people to share their energy and compassion

• Promote global awareness and involvement at schools and universities
• Create meaningful international service opportunities for student volunteers
• Encourage life-long commitments to service

Annual Reports

See in photos, numbers and text exactly how our outreach to children in need appeared in previous years. We are glad to report that over 96% of our resources went directly to program expenses in the past two years. (Our fiscal year runs July 1 through June 30.)

• 2005-06 Annual Report
• 2004-05 Annual Report
• 2003-04 Annual Report

Our Values

Respectful Service

• We serve others in a way that, above all else, maintains their dignity and honor. We take action only after we have listened to and understood the needs of those we serve.

Empowerment

• Our service promotes empowerment of individuals and communities, not dependence.

Collaboration

• We recognize the unique expertise of community-based organizations in meeting local needs, and we seek partnerships that stretch resources and leverage the impact of our outreach.

Community

• We look after those in our community.  The world is our community and all children without access to proper healthcare and education are in our sphere of concern.

Solidarity with the Poor

• We seek to heighten our awareness of the sources of poverty and to ‘walk’ with the poor in their daily struggles.  We fuse action and contemplation in all of our service opportunities.

Mutual Healing

• Each individual has a gift, an ability, a talent to share with those in need. In selflessly giving of ourselves to others, we realize and develop more fully our own abilities. We promote direct intercultural exchange, realizing that each individual is simultaneously both giver and receiver.

Youth Involvement

• We encourage the active participation of students in all aspects of our mission, tapping into their limitless potential as healers and servant leaders.

Further Information on our Key Mission Objectives


International Service Trips
We enable volunteers to travel with us to strengthen the health and education initiatives of our international partners, such as Fundacion Tierra Nueva in Ecuador and the Clinic of the Haitian Academy in Haiti. These service trips are typically one week in length and are paid for by the volunteers themselves. Trip expenses (typically around $1,200 per person, everything included) are kept to a minimum by living in community with the people we serve. While most of our trips are centered around primary healthcare outreach, some trips include public health education, dental, construction, medical equipment maintenance, and child development projects. Non-medical volunteers can serve in our clinics in a variety of capacities: translation, triage, pharmacy assistance, fluoride station, etc.

Medical Supply Warehouse
Another way in which we support our international partners is by delivering important medicines and appropriate medical equipment and supplies. We coordinate with our partners to determine their material needs, then collect, organize and ship accordingly. Some items are hand-carried by our volunteers, while larger items are shipped in crates or containers. Many of the durable goods (wheelchairs, shower chairs, etc) we collect are distributed in the Indianapolis area to children and seniors in need. Other medical outreach organizations are welcome to shop our warehouse free of charge.

Funding for Outreach Growth
We seek funds to distribute to our international partners for the structural improvement of existing clinics and hospitals, for the general support of child development/education projects, and for the medical needs of impoverished children. For example, we provide monthly support to Quito's Tierra Nueva hospital, enabling them to offer quality healthcare to those without the ability to pay. We also support the monthly salary of an MD in the Haitian Academy's clinic, who cares for impoverished patients and mentors Haitian medical students.