Could You Become Our Corporate Sponsor?
Why Corporate Sponsorship Benefits Your Business Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is more than a buzzword—it’s an integral part of a company’s brand, values, and long-term success. For charities like Humanity Direct, it opens doors to fund impactful initiatives like surgical clinics and educational programs, allowing us to expand our reach and create lasting change. Read…
Why Becoming a Regular Donor Is So Important
Providing Life-Saving Surgeries for Children Every child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, happy, and full of potential. Yet millions of children around the world are denied that opportunity simply because they don’t have access to the medical care they need. Monthly Donations can help fund life-saving surgeries— whether to correct congenital conditions, treat…
5 Effective Charity Fundraising Ideas
Why Fundraising Matters for Humanity Direct Donations fund our surgical and eye care outreach clinics, essentially putting fuel in our minibus, so our healthcare coordinators can reach areas where children, far from medical care, can be assessed for treatment. Donations also fund our eye test clinics, allowing us to visit schools, and provide eye tests…
How Non-Profits Address Global Healthcare Gaps
Non-profit organisations like ourselves play a critical role in plugging the huge gaps that exist in global healthcare systems. The Shocking Statistics on Global Surgical Needs Today, 1.75 billion children around the world don’t have access to safe surgery. It is estimated that 30% of the global burden of disease is treatable with surgery, yet…
Why I Co-founded Humanity Direct
Why I Co-founded Humanity Direct, Marc Shalam I’ve always had an active interest in charity and volunteering. I’ve helped build homes in South Africa with Habitat for Humanity and also taught in secondary schools there. More recently, I volunteered here in London for Open Age, helping elderly people with tech/computer skills. All of these experiences…
Five Top Tips for Christmas Fitness.
My Ultimate Guide To The Healthiest Christmas, Neil Thubron, XNRG Founder With less than six weeks to go the countdown to Christmas is on and it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and put fitness goals off until the New Year. But with 80% of people abandoning their resolutions by February, I would urge…
The Best Christmas Gift Idea: Life-Changing Donations for Children
Life-Changing Donations for children who need medical care Christmas is almost here and it’s time to find the perfect gift for your loved ones. But before you hit the shops it’s worth remembering that last year an estimated £232 million worth of unwanted presents were returned! We have a fantastic alternative that would beat any…
How our holiday turned into a life changing charity, Nick Swift, Humanity Direct’s Co-Founder.
While on holiday in Uganda our tour guide suddenly became seriously ill and urgently needed medical care. We drove down bumpy roads for what felt like hours in search of the nearest hospital. When we finally found a hospital the diagnosis was clear – he needed emergency surgery but, to our shock he hesitated, fearing…
Meet Dickson, Humanity Direct’s Healthcare Coordinator.
Meet Dickson, our Healthcare Coordinator In Ugandor. A Behavioural Scientist with a MA in Social Science focusing on “Health and Society”, Dickson has been with Humanity Direct for over 10 years, helping us provide safe surgery for children in Uganda.