Current Projects:
USA:
San Diego:
Humanitarian Wave’s (HW) purpose is to support community base ideas that promote the well-being and the quality of life of communities and its members.
◦ Mount Hope Boxing Project
Mount Hope Boxing (MHB) is a community base initiative in the ethnically diverse neighborhood of Mount Hope in the City of San Diego. The purpose of MHB is to promote the well being of children and youth of the community through physical and educational programs.
In the beginning of 2010, one community leader, Mr. Juan Cruz took initiative to provide sports and fitness activities as a way of helping the children of the community stay off gangs and drugs. Mr. Cruz was a former U.S. Youth Olympic boxer and it was through this experience and a desire to help the children of the community that he started to teach boxing and fitness out of his small house garage.
The community of Mount Hope had no concrete programs addressing the needs of the children and youth of the community. For the last year on an average week over 50 children form part of Mr. Cruz program and therefore become part of something constructive, healthy and productive that could only translate into something positive in their lives and that of the community.
HW’s purpose is to help MHB create, develop and expands program ideas in the areas of sports, health and education programs. One of the main goals of this project is to help find MHB a facility to run, grow and solidify its programs. This year project will concentrate on solidifying and expanding MHB sports and fitness program and the development of a new education program named “Workshop Wednesdays”.
HB Sport and Fitness program:
MHB sports and fitness programs provides avenues to help the children learn about a healthy mind and body through fitness, boxing, and yoga classes. The classes are supported by a network of volunteers on a weekly basis.
Workshop Wednesdays Program:
In an effort to provide more activities and opportunities for the children of MHB a series of workshops will be created in the areas of arts, music, literacy and sustainable gardening. The intention is to create a community project and organize a volunteer base project that stimulate team-work and develops skills.
Latin America:
Mexico:
Humanitarian Wave is working with various communities in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The projects developed are in the area of education, economic self-reliance and sustainable agriculture. One of the main goals for these projects is to provide the communities with tools that will better help them use their resources to improve their economy and the quality of their lives.
La Majahua is an impoverished fishing community comprised of 45 families living in the outskirts of Troncones, a small resort community catering to foreign tourists on the Pacific coast of Mexico in the state of Guerrero.
Humanitarian Wave is working with community members developing projects to educate the community on ways to improve the quality of life in La Majahua. Priorities are to improve the children’s education and to provide the tools that will assist the adults bring economic stability and prosperity into their families and communities.
As part of the educational program HW funded the construction of a school library and provided computers, new Spanish books and other necessary materials for the use of the library. In addition HW is funding a school teacher and has been providing school supplies and sports equipment for the community school.
HW has provided tools that have benefited various families in the community and that have resulted in improved and stable income for these families. HW helped start a new restaurant providing income to a family of ten peopleandpurchased a fishing boat for the local fishermen co-op that is providing work and income to three individuals and their families. Moreover, Humanitarian Wave has helped the community join a regional Organic Agriculture Cooperative of Farmers as well as help start a Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) Program.
- Organization of Ecologist Women from the Sierra de Petatlan Project
The project combines agricultural production and natural resources conservation as income generating activities for the support of the women owned cooperative “Mujeres Ecologistas de la Sierra de Petatlan”. This project incorporates the development of sustainable income with the conservation efforts of the Melipona bee.
The organization is comprised of 90 impoverished women farmers from the mountain regions of Guerrero. The organization was formed in 2002 in an effort to peacefully stop the indiscriminate and illegal logging of native trees of their region. As of today the women have planted over half a million trees. This group of women has organized to not only educate women from the region on the importance of the conservation of their resources, but also create ecological approaches to food production as well as income generating conservation activities that helpsustain their families.
The MELIPONA bee is under threat of extinction due to the destruction of their natural habitat by the indiscriminate logging of trees in this region. The women received training from apiculture engineers and the local organization Guerrero Verde on how to procreate the bees and to extract the honey and other hive products. Humanitarian Wave provided the funds to initiate the apiculture project including purchasing the necessary material for the construction of wooden hives as well as a workshop area for the extraction of the honey and its products. The market cost for the honey is $80 USD per gallon. The MELIPONAS bee project helped produce a source of sustainable income for these women in addition to helping the sustainability of the natural resources of this region.
Uruguay:
Marindia del Norte is an impoverished community outside of the capital Montevideo. In Marindia we are working with local community leaders to help improve the conditions of a local youth center that consists of a small room that provides food, help with school, and has become a safe heaven for the children of this community. This center has a very strong support of local volunteers, but they and the community lack the funding to improve the conditions of the center. Humanitarian Wave funded a new room with restrooms, tables, school supplies, books, sports equipments, food, and clothing for the children. HW with local community leaders is working on future projects that will generate income to sustain the youth center and that at the same time will provide education and job training for young adults.
Puerto Rico:
- Pediatric Oncology Project
This projects works to improve the quality of life of children with cancer at the public hospital in San Juan. It includes bringing basic necessities like food, clothing, toys, videos and other forms of entertainment for the children during their long periods of hospitalization. In addition Humanitarian Wave has been working hand in hand with the Little Star Foundation to bring kids from the hospital to Little Star Foundation’s sessions. A major accomplishment was made this year when a group of four children with two medical staff from the hospital were able to visit San Diego and participate in various activities like swimming with dolphins at Sea World and going in a Safari at the WildAnimalPark.
Europe:
Croatia:
