Giving Back and the Three Charities We Choose to Support

Posted February 20, 2020

Giving Back and the Three Charities We Choose to Support

At HWHC we live what we value: compassion, relationships, family values, uncompromising integrity, ethical behaviour, responsibility and optimal healthcare. We intentionally live what we speak. As a business we believe this goes beyond just our doors. It’s so important to give back to the community, both locally and globally.

There are three charities we support wholeheartedly that have integrity, transparency and line- up with our values.

RESTORE ONE CHARITY

Restore One’s mission is to break poverty one community at a time through; housing, education, employment and health-initiatives. Based in central Cambodia the Restore One School educates children from Preschool all the way to Year 12 with over 600 students and employing 30 teachers. Here they learn English, agriculture, computer classes and even photography. Their aim is to equip students with the tools, skills and knowledge to gain employment on graduation.

They also have initiatives such as the Restore Rose’s (menstrual cup program) and hygiene programs that are active in the surrounding communities.

If you’d like to donate to Restore One visit: www.restoreone.org.au/donate

PANZI FOUNDATION

In 1999 Dr. Denis Mukwege and his staff founded the Panzi Hospital in Bakavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Mukwege and his staff have helped to care for more than 50,000 survivors of horrendous sexual violence. The hospital not only treats survivors with physical wounds, but also provides legal and psycho-social services to its patients. Patients who cannot afford post-rape medical care are treated without charge.

If you’d like to donate to the Panzi Foundation visit: https://www.panzifoundation.org/donate

CATHERINE HAMLIN FISTULA FOUNDATION

The Hamlin foundation is dedicated to restoring the health and dignity of women who have survived the horrendous – and preventable – childbirth injury: obstetric fistula.

Founded 60 years ago by pioneering Australian surgeons Catherine and Reg Hamlin, their extraordinary journey started with an initial three year posting in Ethiopia. Today it reflects a lifetime quest to provide the world’s best treatment to the most marginalised women. Those who have suffered an obstetric fistula (an internal injury caused by prolonged, unrelieved, obstructed labour) which leaves these women incontinent, humiliated and cut off from their communities find help with the Hamlin Foundation.

If you’d like to donate to the Hamlin Fistula Foundation visit: https://hamlin.org.au/how-you-can-help/birthday/

Here are a few great websites we recommend checking out if you’d like to know more about these charities and how you can donate: