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Projects carried out

AFGHANISTAN

In May 1989, medical supplies and 3,520 disposable syringes, donated by Becton Dickinson (Spain) were delivered to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan.

In 2001, in response to the refugee tragedy in Afghanistan, and thanks to Professor Muhammad Yunus, President of the GRAMEEN BANK of Bangladesh, pioneer in providing microcredits to the poor, World in Harmony initiated its collaboration in a project to help Afghan refugee women. GRAMEEN's partner in Afghanistan, Women for Women International, was entrusted with the project, while GRAMEEN TRUST monitors the use of our donation to ensure it reaches the Afghan refugee women for whom it is destined. The objective of this program is to create and support income-generating projects for rural and urban widows, single mothers, women heads of households, and returnees who have recentlyº resettled in their homes after 23 years of war in Afghanistan and, thus, have been deprived access to education as well as economic opportunities.

In early November, 2001, WORLD IN HARMONY also contributed to an emergency assistance mission, Humanitarian Aid to the Afghan Refugees, carried out by the SPANISH RED CROSS, financing the cost of 1,475 blankets and 3,384 plastic containers for water, which were air freighted to the Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

In 2003 grant was made to ASHRAM INTERNATIONAL to support their work in providing relief to victims of landmines in Afghanistan, in partnership with the Sandy Gall Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA). The project involves the physical task of rebuilding what is now called the Kabul Orthopaedics Centre, followed by the training of physiotherapists and technicians to provide services and manufacture orthopaedic devices to the victims of landmines.

ALBANIA

In March, 1992 donation of toys to Mother Teresa of Calcuta’s “Misionary sisters house of charity” in Tirana, Albania.

In 1993, we donated a bread-bakery unit with a daily production capacity of 2.5 tons of bread, for those belonging to all religious communities in the village of Dervitsiani.

Student boarding scholarships, corresponding to the academic year 1994-95, were provided in December 1994 to students originating from the extremely poor, mountain villages of Berat and Korça, who are enrolled in the Korça and Berat Pilot Agricultural Schools. Innovative new curriculum is offered in vocational agricultural training, such as crop cultivation, especially new crops, livestock breeding, and modern agricultural methods and techniques.

In 1999, students and professors of the Kristo Isak Agricultural School in Berat carried out a project consisting in the construction of a 1,000 m2 greenhouse where the students cultivate cucumbers and tomatoes (local varieties). The steel and plastic materials for the construction of the greenhouse were bought with funds provided by WORLD IN HARMONY. In 2001, WORLD IN HARMONY provided additional funding for the Kristo Isak Agricultural School in Berat, to be invested in the greenhouse run by the students and teachers. The Agricultural School in Korça will use their part of the donation to replace the school’s photocopier and repair/upgrade the computer lab.

In 2002, a contribution was made to the humanitarian assistance programs of His Eminence Monseigneur Anastasios Yannoulatos, Archbishop of the Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church of Albania.

ARMENIA

In December 2008, shipment of 20,000 syringes to earthquake victims.

BANGLADESH

In December 1989, donation of 72 pregnant Holstein-Friesian heifers and 1,000 doses of pedigree bovine breeding material to the Savar Livestock Farm.

Donation to rebuild 500 houses of Grameen Foundation borrowers which were destroyed in the Cyclone Sidr in 2008.

Auran bala

Ciclón Sydr : A Bangladeshi lady outside her new home

BOLIVIA

In 2003, WORLD IN HARMONY began collaborating with MEDICUS MUNDI RIOJA (Spain) in a project to combat blindness in Bolivia (in the region of Potosí), one of the most impoverished countries in South America. MEDICUS MUNDI RIOJA is creating an ophthalmic center at the Hospital of the Conception, and training is provided for a network of health professionals to be able to treat patients suffering from eye diseases, in order to provide them with eye care. Combating eye diseases, together with polio vaccination programs, are considered the two most efficient means of reducing poverty in the world. A second donation was made in 2005.

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

In December 1992 and February 1993, we made a shipment of a total of 12,000 blankets, 7,200 litres of sunflower oil, 10 tons of baby cereals and high-protein biscuits, and 40,000 hypodermic syringes, for the victims of the terrible aggressions which occurred among the Balkan states during the 1990’s, resulting in the rupture of Yugoslavia into independent nations.

BRAZIL

In 2008 in collaboration with the Conselho Indígena de Roraima-(CIR) World in Harmony sent funds to support the Indigenous communities to defend their rights to their land and its resources (from which their livelihoods depend). The CIR is made up of the villages of Ingaricó, Macuxi, Patamona, Sapará, Taurepang, Wai Wai, Wapichana, Yanomani y Yekuana with 268 indigenous. In 2009 the Federal Supreme Court ruled that this region would be reserved for the sole use of the 19,000 indigenous people.

BULGARIA

In 2005, four old people’s homes, located in the village of Prisovo (the municipality of Veliko Tarnovo), in the village of Krayasen (in Pavlikeni), and in the town of Kazanlak, received donations consisting of medical equipment, household and kitchen appliances, TV’s, bed linens, pyjamas and diapers, individual clothes’ closets, musical equipment, etc. A benefit piano recital, performed by the admirable Bulgarian pianist Vesselin Stanev, was celebrated on 12 May, 2005, at the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, to raise the funds to carry out this project.

CAMBODIA

In August 2008, WORLD IN HARMONY made a donation to the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang to help families to be more self-reliant. The help the organisation provides includes the provision of: Wheelchairs, education scholarships, bicycles, construction of houses and micro credits.

CHILE

School supplies and textbooks for the Republic of Zaire school, for the academic year, 1992-93.

CUBA

In February 1994, a humanitarian aid shipment, consisting of didactic materials, medicines, shoes and clothing, detergents, and 4 tons of livestock fodder seed (alfalfa, hybrid sunflower seed and hybrid corn seed), was carried out in collaboration with the POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY of Madrid.

ECUATORIAL GUINEA

The cost of a generator set was financed by WORLD IN HARMONY in 2006 for the Virgen del Carmen “HOLA-HOLA” school in Campo Yaoundé, Malabo, with a student body of 400 students from the ages of 4 – 13, for the operation a fresh-water well and thereby ensure the supply of potable water for the students.

ENGLAND

In 2004 we collaborated in the construction of a Concert Hall on the grounds of the YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL, founded on 16 September, 1963, at Stoke d’Abernon, for gifted young musicians. The YMS is a microcosm for a world in which Yehudi Menuhin passionately believed: that through music, all peoples could aspire to living in harmony, by means of mutual understanding and cooperation.

ETHIOPIA

In 1988, in collaboration with the MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS OF CATALUÑA (Spain), a donation was made to their Program for Ocular Health in Tigray (Ethiopia) – PROJECT VISION, a project designed to combat eye diseases producing blindness through the organization and follow-up of "eye-camps" and "eye workshops", for the purpose of providing the training of nurses specialized in ophthalmology (Ophthalmic Medical Assistants). 90% of the world’s blind population resides in developing countries.

In 2002 collaboration in the project, Equipment and incentives for the graduates of a School to train Nurses Specialized in Ophthalmology – OMA’s (Ophthalmic Medical Assistants), founded and supported by the MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS OF CATALUÑA (Spain) - PROJECT VISION - in the region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. The principal objective of this project is to supply each of the 10 OMA's with sufficient equipment to ensure they are able to carry out their duties. In addition, WORLD IN HARMONY’s contribution was utilized for the payment of incentives for 6 OMA's, to ensure they remain in the poorest areas of the country, as well as in recognition of increases in productivity.

GREECE

Between 1987&1989 we collaborated in the rehabilitation and conservation of a student residence and an old people's home in the Diocese of Konitsa, which had suffered severe damages due to an earthquake, as well as a donation of didactic materials for the children attending a kindergarten run by the Diocese.

Shipment of 4,000 blankets in February 1995 for Greek refugees who had emigrated from Russia and returned to their Greek homeland.

In collaboration with the GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE of Athens: (a) 1,225 blankets, (b) 1,500 electric heaters, and (c) 1,000 two-burner stoves, with ovens, were donated to the victims of the Athens earthquake of September, 1999. Also, WIH provided subsidies to those earthquake victims having large families, as well as to poor families living in East Trace.

In 2002, the European Court in Strasbourg awarded H.R.H. Princess Irene of Greece, President of WORLD IN HARMONY, an indemnification for properties expropriated from the Greek Royal Family. These funds were donated to WORLD IN HARMONY for the purpose of providing financial aid to humanitarian causes in Greece, with special emphasis on nurturing talented young Greek musicians by providing scholarships to permit them to study (un cours de perfectionnement, with the best available professors and, then, to launch their careers. Hence, the Gina Bachauer Prize Piano Competition was created, thanks to the initiative of The Society of the Friends of Music, headed by Mr. Christos Lambrakis, to be celebrated every two years. The first competition was celebrated in May, 2004, and the winners were Ms. Evangelia Mitsopoulou of Thessaloniki and Mr. Sotiris Louizos of Corfu. Mr. Apostolos Palios, of Karditsa, Greece, was the winner of the 2006 edition of the Gina Bachauer Prize Piano Competition. In 2008, a cello competition, in memory of Maestro Mstislov Rostropovich, was celebrated and the two winners were Ms. Loukía Loulaki and Ms. Ioanna Sira.

Collaboration in 2003 in the celebration of a concert at Wigmore Hall, performed by Ms. Efi Christodoulou, a young, exceptionally talented Greek violinist, to help launch her career.

From 2003 – 2006, WORLD IN HARMONY provided financial aid to an outstanding Albanian student, Olsi Nikos Nini, enrolled in the 3-year lyceum program at the AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL in Thessaloniki, renowned for its quality agricultural education. This assistance represents the amount each family is expected to contribute towards their son or daughter's education, covering partial coverage of room and board charges. Every student is provided with a full tuition scholarship, the balance of the boarding fees being assumed by private donors, companies and foundations.

In 2006 financial help was given to the Veroia association for disadvantaged children, whose efforts are applied to supply the basic needs of children living in poverty in Veroia, particularly educational materials, food and clothing.

2008-2009 Scholarship to pay for one student’s violin studies in the Juilliard School, New York with the teacher Kyung Wha Cheng.

In 2009 a donation was made to Mr. Palios (Gina Bachauer Scholarship holder 2006-2008) to sponsor a piano recital which will take place in the Carnegie Hall, New York in 2010, in memory of the conductor D. Mitropoulos.

We purchased a 9 seater van in September 2009 to cover the urgent transport needs for an orphanage, the Lyrion Foundation for children, situated in Nea Makri:

A donation was made to help with the organisational costs of Religion Science and The Environment’s 8th symposium which took place in the Mississippi river, USA in October 2009.

SUPPORT TO NGOs: Creation of a website containing a comprehensive list of Greek NGOs in order to provide information for those who need help and for those who wish to offer their services.

YOUNG RESEARCHERS (Social): In 2006 in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Athens, a four year scholarship was awarded to carry out a Post Doctoral thesis to develop a tool to detect linguistic problems at an early age in the Greek language.

ROMA COMMUNITY: We collaborated with the “Roma” organisation in 2009 supporting an investigation into the health, hygiene and educational needs of a gypsy community (230 Roma families) based in Psari, Athens. We intend to continue working with them in order to help them to improve their standard of living.

In 2009 funds were sent to provide psychological therapy to 100 children affected by the impact of the forest fires in the Peloponese region of Greece in August 2007. The purpose of the “Tree project” of the Merimna organisation is to give the children an opportunity to express their feelings about their traumatic experiences through writing tree stories. Drawing is a psychological technique used to help children recover from trauma.

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Children taking part in the Project “Merimna”

GREENLAND

In 2009 we sent a donation to the Center for Human Rights and Indigenous Studies established by the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) in Nuuk to promote the education and rights of the Inuit people, Arctic Policy and traditional knowledge.

HAITI

EMERGENCY: As a result of the earthquake which Haiti suffered on 12 January 2010, 1,200 kits containing health care and household products were donated in collaboration with the Save the Children organization

Woman opening one of the hygiene kits(Save the Children)

HEALTH COLLARS FOR DOGS: In 2010 we donated dog collars and anti-parasite sprays for abandoned dogs cared for by the “Zoofilikos Syllogos Elefsinas” Center.

One of the dog carers of the centre ties the collar to one of the dogs (Athens)

HONDURAS

Following the devastating consequences left in the wake of Hurricane Mitch, which occurred in 1999, an emergency aid program was undertaken in the region of Moskitia, in collaboration with the CODESPA FUNDATION (a Spanish NGO), consisting of the acquisition, transportation and distribution of food. In addition, construction materials were donated for the repair of infrastructures. The local population participated in the rehabilitation works in exchange for food.

In 2001, WORLD IN HARMONY initiated a collaboration with the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EX-SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HONDURAS (ANEDH) in an educational project called Honduran Girls, which provides scholarships to girls with good academic potential, coming from impoverished families living in the Department of Valle, one of the most economically deprived areas of Honduras, thus permitting them to continue their studies up to the 9th grade. This project commenced in 1997, thanks to the initiative of ex-scholarship holders whose scholarships were made possible thanks to the program Scholarships for Peace, under U.S. Government auspices

INDIA

In 1986, negotiations between WORLD IN HARMONY and the Federal Government of Germany resulted in the donation of 1,000 surplus Holstein-Friesian dairy cows for their integration into India's large-scale crossbreeding programs, carried out by the National Dairy Development Board (N.D.D.B.) of India (called Operation Flood).

In 1986, donation of 30 tons of powdered milk to the N.D.D.B. to be dispensed among poor families. A total of 400 Holstein-Friesian dairy cows were distributed, in different stages, among the members of the dairy cooperatives of the N.D.D.B., primarily to poor widows.

In November 1989, 1,500 doses of pedigree bovine breeding material, a gift of the Regional Government of Cantabria (Spain), were donated to the N.D.D.B.

In 1990, donation of medicines to the Gandhiji Prem Nivas Leprosy Centre, run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, at Titagarh, Parganas, in West Bengal.

In October 1991, 2,500 "lungis" (typical Indian robe for men) and 2,500 "saris" (typical dress of Indian women) were distributed to destitute people (Christians and Muslims), in the region of Tanil Nadu, South India.

In January 1994, the proceeds of a concert sponsored by BMW IBÉRICA, S.A. were donated to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for the victims of the earthquake which destroyed the Province of Maharashtra, in September, 1993.

In May, 1999, a joint project was initiated with ASHRAM INTERNATIONAL, in the village of Thirumullaivogal, near Madras, entitled Enabling the construction of 15 self-help, low-cost row houses, focusing on two basic components: self-help shelter and the empowerment of women.
On January 26, 2001, a terrible earthquake struck GUJARAT STATE (measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale), resulting in 100,000 deaths, as well as producing extensive damage and the devastation of homes and industries. The small town of Bhuj was the epicenter. WORLD IN HARMONY contributed $10,000 to the “Earthquake Relief Fund” of the CHARUTAR AROGYA MANDAL FOUNDATION, which manages the Shree Krishna Hospital & Medical Research Centre, located in that region.

Contribution to the ILA TRUST, Medicare and Rehabilitation Multi-Service Center, at Betkuchi Village, Guwahati, Assam (northeast India). Since its creation in 1994, the ILA TRUST Multi-Service Center attends to the health needs, free-of-charge, of patients suffering from stigmatic diseases such as AIDS, as well as tuberculosis, diarrhoea, dysentery, and numerous water-borne diseases relevant to the North East region, with special emphasis on women and children. The North East region is among the most deprived regions of India, with chronic problems of floods, poverty, unemployment and insurgency. In addition, the ILA TRUST provides professional training in local arts and crafts wares, such as weaving, cane and bamboo crafts, etc., as a means of income generation.

In 2004, humanitarian assistance, in the amount of $10,000, was provided to the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund for the victims of a devastating fire suffered by the students of the Elementary School at Kumbakonam in the State of Tamil Nadu.

IRAN

A donation was made to H.A.H. The Ecumenical Patriarch M.M. Vartholomaios for the relief effort carried out by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate to assist the sufferers and victims of the devastating earthquake which occurred in the city of Bam (Kerman Province), on 26 December, 2003, causing the death of 41,000 persons and injuring 26,500.

IRAQ

In collaboration with the SPANISH RED CROSS, WORLD IN HARMONY participated in a program of emergency assistance to assist the victims of the Iraq war (March/April, 2003), by means of financing the cost of 3,000 blankets, within the 1st Phase of the Humanitarian Assistance Program carried out by the INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS, to provide for the war victims and those displaced during the war.

In collaboration with DOCTORS OF THE WORLD, 3 emergency medical assistance kits (New Emergency Health Kit) containing medicines and complementary medical supplies sufficient to attend to 10,000 persons during a three-month period, were donated by WORLD IN HARMONY in 2003 to assist in the development of their health and nutritional programs, of vital importance once bellicose conflicts have terminated, and to contribute to the reconstruction of the health system in Iraq. Each kit consists of 24 boxes of medicines, materials and health equipment.

ISRAEL / PALESTINE

In December, 2003, a benefit concert, entitled “Bridge of Hope”, was celebrated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid for the purpose of raising funds in order to collaborate in a joint project being carried out by the PALESTINIAN COUNCIL OF HEALTH and the PERES CENTER FOR PEACE entitled: "The improvement of the mental health status of Palestinian and Israeli children”.

Arrival of shipment of sleeping bags and higiene kits in Amman for transportation to Gaza

In January 2009 the conflict in Gaza produced a devastating situation for the people living in this area. Our association financed the shipment of 1200 sleeping bags and 999 hygiene kits via Red Cross Spain to Amman for subsequent distribution in Gaza. The plane was organized by the Spanish Association of International Cooperation.

IVORY COAST (WEST AFRICA)

In October 1989, 100 kilos of medicines were donated to N'Daya International, Abidjan.

JORDAN

Contribution to the "Gulf Emergency Program" carried out by the INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (I.O.M.) in Geneva, representing the cost of a charter flight for the repatriation of 275 Bangladesh refugees from Amman, Jordan, to Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 10 October, 1990.

A fund-raising exhibition of Jordanian arts and crafts was organized in Madrid in 1990 in solidarity with the Jordanian nation, which had suffered greatly during the Gulf crisis. In collaboration with the NOOR AL-HUSSEIN FOUNDATION, the proceeds were destined for the disadvantaged populations living in rural areas, the sector of Jordanian society most severely affected by the embargo.

In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war (Jan./Feb. 1991), two shipments of refugee aid were sent to the NOOR AL-HUSSEIN FOUNDATION, consisting of 343 blankets, 37 bed spreads, a total of 40,000 hypodermic syringes, 3,000 tins of low-fat, powdered milk with vitamin additives, 6 tons of high-protein biscuits manufactured by "Nabisco Brands", and an anti-cancer drug, Plastistyl, (produced by the Cefamasa laboratories) for cancer patients in Jordanian hospitals, as well as other medicines.

In 1991, a donation consisting of 1,370 kilos of seed for agricultural produce (beet, spinach, cabbage, pea, bean, tomato, cucumber, and melon crops), and 211 kilos of seed for the cultivation of sweet corn, onion, cauliflower, green pepper, watermelon, and lettuce, was made to the NOOR AL-HUSSEIN FOUNDATION.

The Cow Breeding Scheme or Quality of Life Project, under the direction of the NOOR AL-HUSSEIN FOUNDATION, commenced on September 14, 1992, in Qanieh Village. WORLD IN HARMONY made an initial donation of 10 prime pregnant cows, accompanied by 10 tons of concentrated forage, representing a three-month supply of livestock feed to cover the needs of the animals until they began to produce milk. In February 1994, an additional 10 heifers were purchased for 10 families living in the villages of Al-Bassa and Iraq Al-Amir, together with a three-month supply of livestock feed.

KOSOVO

Appeal for an Emergency Humanitarian Aid Program – S.O.S. KOSOVO - for the Albanian-Kosovar refugees who had been forced to flee their villages in Kosovo due to the policy of genocide carried out by the Milosevic regime, and had sought asylum in the refugee camps of Kukes, Korçe, and Pogradets.

WORLD IN HARMONY donated in May 1999 to Archbishop Anastasios' extraordinary aid effort, for the purchase of food, warm clothing, and tents (with a 12-person capacity) for the refugees.

KURDISTAN

En 1995 40,000 disposable hypodermic syringes were sent to the FRANCE-LIBERTÉS FOUNDATION in Paris, presided by Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand, for the Kurd refugees living in North Iraq.

250 kilos of medicines, donated to WORLD IN HARMONY by PHARMACISTS OF THE WORLD of Valencia (Spain), were air freighted to London for their posterior delivery to the Kurd refugee population in August 1995.

MEXICO

Between 1997 & 2000, in collaboration with the Mexican NGO, ASSOCIATION PROGRAMA COMPARTAMOS, WORLD IN HARMONY contributed to an Income-Generating Project consisting of the creation of a community association (women’s cooperatives) composed of 35 low-income women living in the Yucatán Peninsula, who receive financing (in the form of loans, in four-month cycles, proceeding from a revolving-fund) which enable them to develop cottage industries (i.e. the production of handicrafts) and carry out small crop cultivation, thereby increasing their families’ income.

MOZAMBIQUE

In May 1990, 1,700 kilos of rice were donated to the GENERAL HOSPITAL JOSÉ MACAMO and the HOUSE OF JOY, run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

In 1990, 15 manually operated corn mills were purchased for the families living in the transit camps in Boane (Maputo).

In June 1993, 40 kits for the blind were donated to the Blind People's Home in Beira, in collaboration with the O.N.C.E., and didactic material and schoolbooks were donated to the "Massaca II" school in Boane.

NICARAGUA

In 1999, a development project was initiated, in collaboration with the CODESPA FOUNDATION, for the purpose of providing job training (instruction in the various aspects of credits, production, marketing, costs and basic bookkeeping, natural resources and respect for the environment), as well as financial aid for disadvantaged families living in marginal urban areas in the Department of New Segovia (encompassing the towns of Ocotal and Madriz).

PARAGUAY

In the wake of summer floods in 1988, 441 envelopes of Meritene Chocolate, a cacao vitamin complex, were sent to the ABEL COMMUNITY, a local NGO dedicated to providing basic health care services for the poor in the city of Pilar.

A donation consisting of 25 kilos of medicines, 500 kilos of rice, and 30 kilos of clothing was air-freighted to ACTION AND DEVELOPMENT, an NGO located in Asunción, in March 1990.

In June 1992, collaboration in the project, Water for the Street Children of Asunción, carried out by the SALESIAN ORDER, under the leadership of Father Martín, Director of the "Don Bosco Roga Centre for Homeless Children”.

PERU

In January and September 1990, in Cuzco, a humanitarian aid shipment was sent to the SERVERS OF THE POOR OF THE THIRD WORLD, consisting of clothing, toys, and medicines, as well as 20 tons of powdered milk (10 tons to “Fe y Alegría” and 10 tons of powdered milk to “Cáritas”).

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

In 2007, World in Harmony made a donation to the Areitos Association, Artists for Development,to purchase musical instruments for children supported by the NGO ADASEC, within a musical educational project. The head of Extremadura and the Deputy of Badajoz were co-financers. The objective is to bring music to children who live in extreme poverty, through the creation of workshops which stimulate creativity and communication, at the same time providing a musical education.

ROMANIA

Between 1992 and 1993, we contributed approximately $50,000 for the rehabilitation of the orphanage of "Abrud", a former military barracks, which was in a state of total abandonment, together with medical-sanitary supplies, food, blankets, and mattresses.

RUSSIA

In 1992, donation of didactic material and clothing for the children attending the Sunday School of the Church of the Assumption in Moscow; clothes and baby bottles (“Chico” brand) for new-born infants at a maternity clinic in Moscow; and shoes and clothing for the children of Schools #113 and #527, in Moscow.

SOMALIA – LIBERIA

Donation of $40,000 to the SPANISH COMMITTEE OF UNICEF, for a well-drilling project carried out in Somalia and Liberia in 1993.

SOUTH AFRICA

In 2001, WORLD IN HARMONY contributed to the Education & Development Program of the NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND, to assist them in projects they are carrying out, with an emphasis on children within the 5 - 15 age group.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Emergency assistance to the survivors of the devastating tidal wave (tsunami) which struck Southeast Asia on 26 December, 2004, inflicting massive devastation in the Gulf of Bengala. A Benefit Concert for Asia was celebrated in Madrid, on 26 January, 2005, for the purpose of raising funds in order to collaborate in the relief efforts. The majority of those whose lives have been destroyed belong to the most impoverished segment of the population living in the coastal areas of the Gulf of Bengala. The concert proceeds were destined to provide:micro-credits to permit the tidal wave victims to rebuild their livelihoods, with the collaboration of the GRAMEEN FOUNDATION, founded by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, and creator of microcredits. Rehabilitation projects to restore health facilities and attend to the injured and those who will suffer long-term disabilities, to be carried out by DOCTORS OF THE WORLD.

SPAIN

In 1986, donation of 3,448 litres of CLESA brand milk to provide for the needs, over a one-year period, of the Málaga branch of the Association Proyecto Hombre, for the drug addiction victims enrolled in their rehabilitation program.

Donation of food products for the dining halls run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in Madrid in 1986 and 1996.

Donation of a First Aid Unit to the Home of the Poor, run by the Missionary Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in Madrid in 1987.

In 1989 a donation was made of 20 sheep to the El Reiets farm in Alicante, financed by the Generalitat Valenciana, for their drug rehabilitation program.

In 1990 a donation of one 5-year-old, lactating, Holstein-Friesian cow, and one Holstein-Friesian yearling, and one five-month-old calf was made to the Spanish NGO Nuevo Amanecer, for the occupational therapy program of drug victims enrolled in their rehabilitation program.

In 1990, donation of 1,000 kilos of livestock feed to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction Victims, in Cáceres.

In December 1991, distribution of toys among the children of the AIDS HOSPITAL in Ambite de Tajuña (Cuenca) and the REFUGEE HOUSE, in Alcobendas (Madrid).

Donation of 6,000 adult-size diapers to the Association Cottolengo del Padre Alegre, a centre for handicapped persons located in Madrid in June 1995.

10,000 adult-size diapers, a gift to WORLD IN HARMONY from Pharmacists of the World of Cataluña, were donated to a retirement home in Bilbao in 1995.

In 1999, the association collaborated with the COMMUNITY OF MADRID in a program for adults with disabilities possessing sufficient autonomy to enable them to live on their own in apartments, under the supervision of professionals, thus permitting their maximum integration into a normal neighbourhood community.

In Seville in 1999, under the direction of Father Emilio Calderón from the Community Parish of San Pío X, WORLD IN HARMONY collaborated in the project “ALBOREAR” which is dedicated to intervening in favour of youth in high risk situations, belonging to the marginalized population of the most conflictive areas of the Polígon Sur of Seville (slums, inhabitable accommodation etc.). In general, the youth suffer social marginalisation because they come from unstructured families as a consequence of high levels of unemployment, they lack educational opportunities and are exposed to the sale and consummation of drugs. In the summer of 2000, a donation of office furniture was made to the Parish of St. Pius X. WORLD IN HARMONY continues its collaboration in the ALBOREAR project, together with BASF SPAIN. Funding was provided to cover the educational expenses, corresponding to the 2001 - 2002 school year, for 30 young people enrolled in the ALBOREAR programme. Additional financing was likewise provided in the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. The project is now called: Young People in a High-Risk Situation in Society.

Humanitarian aid to the victims of a devastating storm which occurred in the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) in March, 2002, producing significant material damage as well as the irreparable loss of human lives. WORLD IN HARMONY’s contribution was utilized for the rehabilitation of the districts which had suffered the greatest damage, as well as for emergency aid.

In April 2002, a contribution was made to the construction costs of the new Occupational Center URCI, in Águilas (Murcia), which treats persons with physical disabilities, in order to permit their full integration into society, and where disabled children are given the opportunity to acquire professional training, thus building up their self-confidence and permitting their active participation in society.

In 2005, WORLD IN HARMONY made a donation to the MUSIC FOR LIFE FOUNDATION, destined to orphanages in Africa which care for and offer shelter to children and young people, principally refugee children fleeing ethnic conflicts and wars. Emphasis is placed on providing musical instruction in order to permit the children to participate in coral groups (African Children’s Choir) of tribal music and offer musical performances in Spain.

In 2005, the Immaculate Heart of Armenteros Institute, located in Salamanca, received a donation from WORLD IN HARMONY for the purpose of collaborating in an educational project initiated by the First Lady of Honduras, Mrs. Aguas Ocaña de Maduro, to provide an education to outstanding students from Honduras (the top students from their respective classes), who originate from deprived sectors in their native land. Given their brilliant academic potential, these young people are offered the opportunity to spend two years in a private secondary education institution in Spain.

SUDAN

BEDU: Collaboration with the “Joseph Bedu Primary School” situated in the city of Dafur.

TUNISIA

In 2002 a contribution was made to the NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT FUND 21-21, under the auspices of the Tunisian Government, whose objective is to offer equal employment opportunities to all Tunisians. The program focuses upon: (1) self-employment initiatives (cottage industries) and the creation of small companies; (2) professional job-conversion programs to teach workers new skills; (3) job-training programs, especially in the public works sector.

In 2002 World in Harmony collaborated with the ENDA Inter-Arabe - Environment & Development in the Arab World, an international NGO which receives the support of the SPANISH AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, in an educational project to assist disadvantaged young people living in the north western section of Tunis, composed essentially of families from rural areas seeking better opportunities in an urban environment.

In 2003, WORLD IN HARMONY continued to support the international NGO, ENDA Inter-Arabe - Environment & Development in the Arab World, in an educational project to develop the aptitudes and stimulate the interest of children and youth in persevering in their studies, by providing them with the necessary tools to be successful in school. Academic failure is a dominant factor in social exclusion.

In 2004, 10 wheelchairs were donated by WORLD IN HARMONY to the Association ADEBA (Development – Excellence – Bouarada) which assists the insertion and integration into society of disabled persons, specifically, permitting them to work, living in the village of Bouarada, near the Tunisian capital.

TURKEY

In 1999, WORLD IN HARMONY began its collaboration with the Contemporary Education Foundation (ÇEV), of Istanbul, Turkey, in the "Students' Housing Project" for Sakarya University students. Humanitarian aid was provided for the construction of student housing for the 18,000 students enrolled at the University of Sakarya in the city of Kirkpinar (region of Marmara), whose dormitories were totally destroyed as a result of the terrible earthquake which devastated Turkey in the fall of 1999. In 2001, a second donation was made for the same purpose. The new buildings will be earthquake-proof.

U.S.A.

In 2002/3/4 and in 2006 & 2007 & 2009 a donation was made to the ANSER (Arizona Native Scholastic Enrichment and Resources Program) FOUNDATION, established through a unique partnership of the University of Arizona and leaders of the state's Native tribes and premier independent college preparatory day school, dedicated to teaching the history and traditions of the Native American HOPI people to the young generations. The Program provides opportunities for academic success by means of: (1) offering challenging pre-collegiate programs; (2) increasing ethnic diversity and cultural understanding within the context of Arizona's independent school community; (3) helping Native students to complete their college studies.

Since 2002 WORLD IN HARMONY has been collaborating in the realization of an Arts Magnet School on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, based on Hopi philosophy, teaching, values, processes, conceptual development, and interests. By utilizing, as opposed to destroying, those elements or processes that are innate in the Hopi people, the project objective is to create a school system focused on the development of individuals with the ability to succeed in any environment.

The Arts Magnet School on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, is based on Hopi philosophy, teaching, values, processes, conceptual development, and interests. By utilizing, as opposed to destroying, those elements or processes that are innate in the Hopi people, the project objective is to create a school system focused on the development of individuals with the ability to succeed in any environment.

HOPI: In 2005 and 2008 World in Harmony provided support to the Black Mesa Trust for the rights of the Hopi people in the state of Arizona, USA for the conservation of their water supply.

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Students in workshops in the Hopi Magnet School

HOPI SCHOOL

Since 2002 World in Harmony has been collaborating in the realization of an Arts Magnet School for the children of the Hopi indigenous population. Young native Americans are educated “to be the eyes, ears and word of the Hopi people”.
The Arts Magnet School on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, is based on Hopi philosophy, teaching, values, processes, conceptual development, and interests. By utilizing, as opposed to destroying, those elements or processes that are innate in the Hopi people, the project objective is to create a school system focused on the development of individuals with the ability to succeed in any environment.

VIETNAM

In September 1991, WORLD IN HARMONY financed a project conceived and realized by the Centre for Applied Physics and Scientific Instruments in Hanoi, for the manufacture of portable, solar-powered lamps for the rural population.

In 1992 a donation of powdered milk and items for babies was made to an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.

In 1992 in collaboration with the Vietnam Women's Union, a revolving-fund was created to assist 300 families, representing an initial investment of $16,000, for the purpose of carrying out a vegetable cultivation project for poor women.

In 1993 a donation was made to the Vietnam Women's Union consisting of 170 boxes of powdered milk which were evenly distributed between an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City (in South Vietnam), and an orphanage in Hanoi (in North Vietnam).

Initiation of the Dairy Development Project, in 1993, in Hanoi, in cooperation with the Vietnam Women's Union and the National Dairy Development Board (N.D.D.B.) of India. Thanks to the goodwill and professional expertise of the N.D.D.B., a training course was held at the headquarters of the N.D.D.B. in Anand (India) in November 1993, co-financed by WORLD IN HARMONY, for four Vietnamese experts: 1 agricultural engineer; 1 engineer specialist in cattle-raising, 1 engineer specialist in food industries; and 1 engineer specialist in cattle-raising and veterinary services. Upon their return from Anand, they provided training to poor, rural women, many of whom were usually the sole providers of their families, to teach them how to properly care for their dairy cows. Once trained, a dairy cow was then "sold" to the women at asymbolic price. The milk supply is destined to cover the needs of their own families, while the remaining amount is processed at the dairy cooperative and sold at local markets. Start-up of the dairy project began with the founding of the Harmony Cooperatives of Ba Vi, by means of an initial donation of 50 dairy cows to 50 cooperative families. A total of three cooperatives have been founded, Hai Hoa I (1993), Hai Hoa II (1996), and Hai Hoa III (1997), in the Ba Vi district.

In 1993, 20,000 doses of high pedigree breeding material, received from the SPANISH MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, and in June 1995 20,000 doses, a gift from the REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF CANTABRIA (northern Spain), were donated to the Harmony Cooperative of Ba Vi to improve the livestock herd.

Donation of a Toyota Land-Cruiser Refrigerator Truck, with a loading capacity of 800kg., and a 12-seat passenger van, was made to the Harmony Cooperatives of Ba Vi in September 1995.

In 1995 to the Huongkhe Branch of the VIETNAM WOMEN'S UNION in the Province of Hatinh for the project: Establishment of a Training Center for Invalid Women and Children.

In 1998 a donation was given to an emergency aid project carried out by the Ca Mau Province branch of the VIETNAM WOMEN'S UNION, for the creation of a revolving-fund to provide one-year, subsidized, non-interest-bearing loans, to offer the means of subsistence to poor women, victims of Typhoon Linda, living in the coastal regions of southern Vietnam.

In 2000, a donation was made to the VIETNAM WOMEN’S UNION for the purchase of an additional 20 dairy cows for the Harmony Cooperatives of Ba Vi.

In February, 2001 a project was initiated, under the leadership and direction of the INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED PHYSICS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS (IAPSI) of Hanoi, financed by a grant from the SPANISH AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION (S.A.I.C.), donations from WORLD IN HARMONY and the SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO FOUNDATION, together with the collaboration of the CODESPA Foundation, a Spanish NGO.

This is a pilot project, denominated "Educational method for preventive health care for the Vietnamese", consisting of education assisted by technology, to be implemented by means of Interactive Learning Stations (ILS), oriented towards improving knowledge about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases among primary health care workers of the communities located in the region of the Mekong River delta and in the mountainous areas of Central Vietnam. The objective of this project is to improve the health services and to fill the gap of knowledge of the medical staff in 30 communities who do not have a health centre.

In December 2003 a van with a capacity to seat 12 passengers was bought for the Harmony Cooperative of Ba Vi.

In 2003, Phase II of the Dairy Development Project was signed between WORLD IN HARMONY and the VIETNAM WOMEN'S UNION, with the objective of making the best use of Ba Vi's potential for raising milk cows, thereby assisting farmers in hunger elimination and poverty alleviation. Ba Vi has plentiful land and manpower resources: almost all households have from 500 to 4,000 m2 of land for grass planting. Also, Ba Vi has a tradition in raising milk cows, thereby attracting many milk producers and processors.

In 2004, books representing Greek excellence in literature and philosophy, were sent to Vietnamese students who are studying Spanish language at Hanoi University.

Biogas systems 2008

In 2008, funds were sent for the construction of 2 biogas systems for the treatment of waste and the production of organic gas to the Ba Vi Cooperative.

YUGOSLAVIA

In 2000, 1,000 blankets were donated to the Clinic Center of Serbia, located in Belgrade.

In 2001, in collaboration with LIFELINE Humanitarian Organisation, a donation of 3,000 blankets was made to the National Health System of Yugoslavia.

IVORY COAST (WEST AFRICA)

ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY OF ABIDJAN: In June 2009, we made a donation of 450 books in Spanish to disseminate the Spanish language and culture amongst the students of the Atlantic University in Abidjan.

HOSPITALS IN ABIDJAN: In the month of October 2009, we gave 6 dialysis monitors donated by the Fresenius company through the Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo foundation to hospitals that are being built in Abidjan.

ZANZIBAR (UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA)

In 2004 and 2005, WORLD IN HARMONY made an important contribution to the water supply and waste management project which the ZANZIBAR WOMEN’S CORPORATION (ZAWCO) is carrying out, to overcome disease and hardship in 12 remote villages (affecting between 20,000 to 30,000 people) on the Pemba and Unguja islands, which compose Zanzibar. The objectives include the improvement of sanitary conditions and health of the inhabitants through projects aimed at water treatment, effective waste management, and economic support via microcredit projects for women.

In 2008, we made an additional donation to ZAWCO for the purchase of solar panels and technical training for the installation of these panels.


Solar panels being transported to Jongowe Island, Zanzibar	A training workshop on the installation of solar panels in Jongowe, Zanzibar

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