Location:
Spencer, New York (USA)
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Today, businesses and organizations need every edge to compete and succeed. They must communicate value and stand out from the rest of the crowd to gain marketshare. S-go Consulting, is an innovative and creative website design and marketing services consulting firm. S-go Consulting has donated their design and hosting services to MWH’s website. We are extremely grateful for Steve and Chad’s time.
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Location:
Ithaca, New York (USA)
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Music at the bedside is not a concert, but something for patients and families to simply allow in the environment without having to respond in any way. There is a growing field called Music in Palliative Care. Many cultures over time, have used music at the bedside to help alleviate emotional, spiritual, psychological and even some physical suffering. Music at the bedside has been seeing a rebirth over the last two decades adding a dimension of care to other modalities in palliative care. MWH and Hospicare Ithaca have worked closely together to provide means of bringing music to individuals in time of need.
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Location:
Nairobi, Kenya
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Nairobi Java House, home to Kenya's finest fresh-roasted coffee, and home-made food. They roast the finest Kenyan coffee beans everyday. Java House has been MWH’s Ambassadors of Goodwill sponsor in Kenya for several years, offering discounted or gratis meals to the participants of our yearly trip.
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Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) |
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PO. Box: 8419
Kampala Uganda
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One out of every 6 children in Uganda is an orphan, whether through war or HIV/AIDS. UWESO was founded in 1986 by a group of women with the mission to rescue children and provide food, clothing and shelter. Also, they generate income for training and micro loans. UWESO identified camps or schools in Uganda that MWH can visit and establish visiting musicians programs.
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Internally Displaced People Camp (GULU) |
Location: Gulu Municipal Council, Gulu, Uganda
It is extremely unsafe to travel to this camp which harbors refugees from the kidnapping, terrorizing and murdering done by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA has captured and enslaved more than 20,000 children. Terrorism and clashes between Uganda’s army and the LRA have caused 90% of Ugandans to become displaced in their own country. Many girls are raped by the LRA and all captives are forced to become soldiers. This is the organization that brought Samite to meet three teenage girls who escaped the LRA.
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Nyumbani Children of God Relief Institute |
Location:
3050 K Street NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20007-5108
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This home provides comprehensive care for HIV/ AIDS positive children. Testing since 1999 for HIV/AIDS and related diseases, they recently worked with the Kenyan government and private donors to insure drug treatment for all of the children. They won a legal battle with the government of Kenya to allow their children to attend primary school. MWH’s Ambassadors of Goodwill visit this orphanage yearly.
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Shangilia - Children’s Theatre |
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Home & School
P.O. Box 39236
Nairobi Kenya
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Shangilia has been aiding street children through aggressive yet compassionate community outreach. Shangilia is open to children who have HIV/AIDS, are abandoned, neglected, experiencing poverty, using drugs, destitute, or in need of short term refuge. They provide residence, education, drama, music, acrobatics and skills development programs. The public performances of their children raise awareness on issues such as street living, abandoned children, HIV/AIDS, and poverty. MWH’s Ambassadors of Goodwill visit this orphanage yearly.
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Location:
National Office
P.O. Box 27510
Kampala, Uganda
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Founded in Uganda in 1991, SOS Kakiri and SOS International have 400 children between them and have implemented 1100 other projects in similar villages in over 132 countries throughout the world. Their purpose is to help orphaned and abandoned children by providing housing and education.
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Location:
Ithaca, New York (USA)
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The Park Foundation has given over $10,000 to MWH in the past several years to assist MWH with its programs and video footage for a full length documentary feature.
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AACAN - Action Against Child Abuse and Neglect |
Location:
P.O. Box 724 Plot 22 Solot Avenue
Soroti, Uganda
AACAN provides rehabilitation for child soldiers used as combatants, messengers, porters, cooks, and prostitutes. Some were abducted or forcibly recruited by the LRA, while still others are driven by poverty, abuse and discrimination. Children are desensitized to violence and rehabilitation is difficult. The Ministry of Health in Uganda and MWH coordinated to get all the children in this camp tested for HIV/AIDS shortly after MWH’s 2005 trip
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Location:
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215 (USA)
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Students in the Music Therapy Program, a major at Berklee, learn to apply music's enormous force to improve the quality of life in individuals with special needs. MWH has been working with faculty and students to devise a plan to both satisfy academic accreditation by providing a quantifiable, on-going study which demonstrates the healing powers of music as well as providing an on-going education and instruction to those refugees and orphans involved in MWH programming. In May, 2007 Samite accompanied 9 students and 1 professor to both Nyumbani and Shangilia orphanages in Kenya. MWH and Berklee will continue trips to Africa as part of the academic programming in the future
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Ithaca Downtown Partnership |
Location:
Ithaca, New York (USA)
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Sponsored a children’s music event during the Apple Harvest Festival in September 2006 with a concert on The Commons in Ithaca NY. Vitamin L, a local non-profit singing group whose purpose is “to uplift and inspire young people and encourage positive character development through music” first performed. Then Charlie Shew, Ritchie Stearns and members of the Indian performing group Musafir, who offered their services gratis, joined Samite on stage to promote the work of MWH.
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Location:
Ithaca, New York (USA)
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A non-profit group dedicated to giving safe harbor to dissident writers whose works are suppressed, invited MWH to collaborate in their event “Voices Of Freedom” commemorating “banned books” week. The September 2006 event at the Unitarian Church in Ithaca, included a short concert by Samite and the opportunity for MWH to raise awareness of its program.
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Unique and Born Free Safaris |
Unique Safaris – Tanzania
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Born Free Safaris – Kenya
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Assisted MWH in their first ever 2006 MWH SOUL OF AFRICA SAFARI. Unique and Born Free Safaris Partners offered their services for free to co-ordinate an “Ambassadors of Good Will” trip to Kenya and Tanzania in 2006. This virgin trip was captured on video footage and will be included in a full-length documentary.
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Location: Ithaca NY
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Sheryl Sinkow, a professional photographer from Ithaca NY, participated in MWH 2006 Soul of Africa Safari. She took many remarkable still pictures on the trip and donated many of them to MWH for our promotional needs. A special thank you to Sheryl for providing so many photos for our use.
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