The Hope Alliance was organized in 1999 to provide Medical, Dental, and Vision care to remote areas of the developing world. Our focus in 2007 will be health education for women and children. This will include medical hygiene training, dental hygiene, mid-wife training, AIDS prevention using the Stay Alive Program and advanced life support training to local doctors and nurses. The Hope Alliance mission is to improve health in communities of need by setting up long-term, self-sustaining programs that will have dramatic, positive, lasting impact on the children and families in those communities. We provide medical clinics, train health workers and supply existing clinics and hospitals with equipment and supplies. We also operate clean water, educational and micro-business projects.

Beginnings

In the late 1990s, John Hanrahan, a family practice doctor from Park City, Utah and Joe Mitchell, a local minister, organized and led a series of humanitarian relief projects with volunteers from their community. The overwhelming success of these projects convinced Hanrahan and Mitchell to formalize their partnership and expand their efforts. The Hope Alliance was born in December 1999. Since then, staff and volunteers have donated more than 20,000 hours of service, providing care for tens of thousands of patients in medical, vision and dental clinics. In its first two years of existence, The Hope Alliance shipped $8 million in medical supplies and humanitarian aid internationally. We have established permanent medical clinics in remote areas of the world, where we provide temporary volunteer staffing and train local health workers for long-term work. Our volunteers have completed rural water projects that reduce death and disease and free locals from hours spent carrying water. We train residents on hygiene techniques, help construct community buildings and launch micro-business projects.