Mahila Partnership’s Project SOAR

Project SOAR strengthens organizational resiliency through strategic mentorships and enables local organizations to better be able to achieve mission success. Project SOAR allows often over-committed organizations to not only consider, but respond to, rapid changes in their operating landscape.  We serve as advisors to provide ongoing support remotely and on the ground with respect to healthcare, gender issues, special needs populations, sheltering and post disaster reconstruction.

It is set up as a separate cause on Facebook and you are invited to join as well.

So how does this work?  As one example, this is how we’ve applied it to our work in Haiti:

Currently we are working with our partners who have close working relationships with the country with over 10 years experience of delivering goods to remote locations of the island. We are fortunate as our partners include CODE Inc, a leading provider in logistics and procurement for materials in the developing world, the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at UMASS with strong ties to the Haitian community and is hosting an international workshop on April 9^th, and ONEXONE who has been led the effort in getting supplies to Partners in Health and hailed as “one of the fastest organizations to mobilize valuable medical supplies and actually get a plane-load of supplies landed at Port-au-Prince airport”. We have been actively communicating with and advising various NGOs, US DHHS, and USAID and it is our goal is to strengthen partnerships with agencies and NGOs as well as facilitate efforts to get them the resources they need.

It has been an amazing experience and we are not done.

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