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Charitable Partners

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XanGo partners with many worthy charitable partners around the world. Below is some brief information about the organizations we support.

Best Buddies

Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.

National McGruff House Network

The National McGruff House Network supports the McGruff House and the McGruff Truck programs. The Network, which is licensed by the National Crime Prevention Council, educates local lawmakers about strategies to keep kids safe in their neighborhoods.

National Ability Center (NAC)

The National Ability Center (NAC) is committed to the development of lifetime skills for people of all ages and abilities by providing affordable outdoor sports and recreational experiences in a nurturing environment.

Drew Brees Dream Foundation

The Drew Brees Dream Foundation was founded in 2003 with a mission to advance research in the fight against Cancer and provide care, education and opportunities for children in need.

Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA)

The Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA) helps children and young adults who need or have had a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support. Learn more about COTA and our work to ensure that no child or young adult is denied a transplant or excluded from a transplant waiting list due to lack of funds.

Steve Young Forever Young Foundation

The Steve Young Forever Young Foundation serves children who face significant physical, emotional, and financial challenges by providing academic, athletic, and therapeutic opportunities unavailable to them.

SOS Kinderdorf

Since 1949, SOS Children’s Villages have been committed to protecting children’s rights, needs and concerns in 132 countries. With a focus on family based, long-term care of children who can no longer grow up with their biological families, the Children’s Villages offer reliable relationships, a place to recover from traumatic experiences, and most of all, unconditional love. The children grow up in a stable family environment, and are supported individually until they become independent young adults.

Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada

The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada works with the community to provide children living with high-risk, life threatening illnesses the opportunity to realize their most heartfelt wish. More than 14,000 wishes have been granted since its inception in 1984. Every child enjoys an enhanced quality of life including the experience of laughter, shared joy and memories with the important people in their lives to the tune of about 900 wishes per year.

The Tuloy Foundation

The Tuloy sa Don Bosco Street Children Program aims to promote a comprehensive approach in order to meet the physical, economic, psycho-social, moral and spiritual needs of street children. This is achieved by increasing their access to social services, health care, education, training, and placement services, bringing them to a level where they can be employed. This approach implies adopting multiple levels of intervention to deal with the clientele´s various needs.

Operation Smile

Operation Smile is a worldwide children’s medical charity that is dedicated to helping improve the lives of children born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. Operation Smile was founded by Dr. William P. Magee Jr. a plastic surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen, a nurse and clinical social worker. In 1982, the Magees traveled to the Philippines with a group of medical volunteers to repair children's cleft lips and cleft palates. They discovered hundreds of children ravaged by deformities, and although they helped many children, the volunteers were forced to turn away the majority of those who sought help. The Magees saw the need and Operation Smile was born.

AmeriCares

XanGo has partnered with AmeriCares to ensure the delivery of XanGo Meal Packs where they are most needed. For nearly three decades AmeriCares has worked through strategic partnerships to provide more than eight billion dollars of aid to 137 countries. Their uncompromising security procedures assure that assistance is delivered to the designated beneficiaries and not diverted. AmeriCares beneficiaries range from institutions like tertiary hospitals to children's homes to far-reaching outpost clinics allowing them to deliver aid to children and families around the world who would otherwise go without.

Children Charity Association

The Children Charity Association of Taiwan promotes initiatives to care for disabled, sick, and underprivileged children. An active part of the programming is a series of Summer Camps, which XanGo is helping to fund. One unique aspect of these camps is the use of ‘music and art therapy’ specifically designed for these disabled kids in need to help them enrich their lives.

Vitamin Angels

Vitamin Angels is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing vital nutrition in the form of supplements, to developing countries, communities and individuals in need. Vitamin Angels has set its sights on the issue of childhood blindness, with plans to eliminate childhood blindness by the year 2020 through the systematic distribution of vitamin A to at-risk children. Just $1 provides sufficient funding to preserve the sight of one child over a four-year administration period. In addition, Vitamin Angels sponsors programs to supply multivitamins to at-risk children and vital supplements to expecting mothers.

University of Utah Global Health Alliance

The University of Utah Global Health Alliance (UUGHA) is a network of faculty, students and staff that provides medical humanitarian education and outreach for sustainable health care in targeted countries. These programs underscore principles of training, teaching and support models that have proven to be the most effective approach to international help. The focus is in-country development.

 
 
 
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