Welcome to KinderUSA as the 37th full Member of HAP International
Founded in 2002, by a group of American physicians and relief workers, KinderUSA is an international humanitarian organisation based in Dallas, United States, with a subsidiary office in Brussels, Belgium. It has a focus on the rights of children and the importance of alleviating human suffering and the fostering of charity, kindness, and justice.
With the mission to alleviate the suffering of children and their families - regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs - by bringing material goods into war zones and areas of disaster, to provide material support to those living in refugee camps, to initiate educational, health, and rehabilitation programs, and to dynamically reverse the psychological damage caused by conflict and natural disasters, KinderUSA provides assistance to children and their families living in conflict and disasters without regard to race, religion, or political affiliation; and, with complete impartiality and neutrality irrespective of political and economic realities.
Currently, KinderUSA is focussed on the children in the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps in Lebanon.
For more information on KinderUSA please visit their website
The 2009 Humanitarian Accountability Report opens with an overview of the principal developments and trends in relation to accountability in the humanitarian system in 2009, written by John Borton. The report highlights the main challenges to improving accountability to crisis-affected communities
Accountability is not only our responsibility, it is inherent in the missions and the core values that drive ouor organisations and the individuals working in them who strive to save lives, alleviate suffering and support the world's poor in developing the capacity to thrive in self-sustaining communities around the world.
Barbara Wallace, Vice President, Membership and Standards, Interaction, Self-Certification Plus, Monday Developments.
