The People JTCW Helps
Fistula Foundation Hospital, happy faces of women after surgery. The clinics provide vitally important fistula surgeries for women in more than 30 countries, including the Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and others where most women have no access to care. As of 2016, they have performed fistula repair surgery for 20,000 women, many of whom were cast out from their village because of the fistula.
Many women walk miles to reach Fistula Foundation clinics such as this one in Bangladesh.
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After surgery these women, many of whom have been outcasts for years, can finally rejoin society and live a full life once again.
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World Bicycle Relief helps expand educational opportunities in rural Africa by providing children a safe and efficient way to get to school.
World Bicycle Relief's sturdy Buffalo Bike helps this mom haul produce to her market stand, enabling her to support her family and provide nutritious food to the community.
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Bikes provided by World Bicycle Relief allow dairies to deliver more milk, doctors to see more patients and ultimately families to earn more money.
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Development in Gardening teaches communities, especially those affected by AIDS, to grow food that provides vital nutrition and strengthens communities while using sustainable gardening practices. Here, Children of the Buwala AIDS Orphanage in Uganda harvest seeds.
Development in Gardening, Paul & Rose Orphanage, Uganda. DIG educates community leaders in sustainable agriculture so their projects continue after they move on to other countries.
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Development in Gardening taught this family in Budondo Uganda how to grow more food for themselves in a sustainable way.
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Camp Kesem provides summer camps at no cost for children of parents with cancer.
Camp Kesem allows kids to attend camp surrounded by other kids struggling with the same worries.
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Camp Kesem is staffed almost entirely by volunteer college students.
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Lily's Legacy rescues and re-homes senior, large dog breeds in Petaluma, CA. Barkley was found hairless from a skin infection and 25 pounds underweight. Now after lots of love, at 100 pounds, the big guy is ready for his new home.
Cruz was rescued after his owner died and found a new home with Lily's help.
Community Action Partnership's Michaelangelo Project, an after school art program for low income children, helps at risk little ones create art in Santa Rosa, CA. Shown with program instructor and local sculptor Charles Churchill.
MILO Foundation rescued Cantaloupe from a high kill shelter in the Central Valley of California. She's one of 26,000 animals MILO has saved from euthanasia over the past 20 years.
MILO Foundation, Boswell was rescued from a high kill shelter and found a new family with the help of MILO.
Model Alliance advocates for models, with a focus on girl models who have almost no workplace protections. Former Model Sara Ziff founded the organization and speaks out to shape legislation aimed at protecting these vulnerable girls.
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Tiffany was rescued by Lily's Legacy and adopted by a family after her owner died.
Marin County Bicycle Coalition lobbied and won government funding to build the Lincoln Pathway to provide safe access for cyclists and pedestrians.
Marin County Bicycle Coalition's mission is to provide safe access to bicycling for everyone.
Sonoma County AIDS food bank Food for Thought provides weekly groceries and nutritional supplements to 650 individuals with HIV/AIDS in Sonoma County, CA.
James receiving his weekly grocery delivery from Food for Thought. The food bank was started in 1988 at the height of the U.S. AIDS crisis to feed and nurture those infected when no other resources were available.
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Garment Workers in a Bangladesh Factory provide clothing for the US and European markets. In 2012 1,100 workers–nearly all young women and girls–were killed when a factory collapsed, another 112 died in 2013 when a fire broke out. The documentary Tangled Threads, produced by JTCW, tells their story.
A group of women outside a Bangladesh garment factory where they work.
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Young girls in the garment factories of Bangladesh work long hours for low wages, under dangerous conditions and without even the most basic protections.
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"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers-so many caring people in this world."
From The World According to Mister Rogers
From The World According to Mister Rogers