Past Projects

Humanist Charities was founded as an adjunct of the American Humanist Association in late 2005. Since then, Humanist Charities has supported worthy development and disaster relief projects around the world, including:

• At the end of 2008, Humanist Charities participated in a medical textbook drive for students of medicine in Afghanistan.  Primarily sponsored by a Las Vegas area teacher’s sorority, Alpha Delta Kappa, the donations were coordinated by AHA members David and Sandra Clapsaddle of Las Vegas. As a result of Humanist Charities’ publicity to AHA members and supporters through email and on the Humanist Charities website, the drive collected over 160 medical textbooks, which were shipped to Afghanistan via Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The drive sought to alleviate a chronic shortage of medical textbooks in Afghanistan caused by the systematic destruction of any materials depicting the human form, which was considered to be blasphemous, during the years of Taliban rule.

• In September 2008 Humanist Charities raised over $2,500 on behalf of an effort by the Children of the Border project, a relief and development project run by humanist Sebastián Vélez of Harvard University, to expand emergency medical service and health care for expectant mothers living in the Haitian border region of the Dominican Republic.

• When Cyclone Nargis struck the Asian mainland in May 2008, Humanist Charities worked with Planet Care/Global Health Access Program, a US based nongovernmental organization, to deliver aid to Myanmar (Burma). Planet Care/Global Health Access partnered directly with secular, grassroots organizations in the affected area to provide assistance.

• Following severe and destructive monsoon rains in India in August of 2007, Humanist Charities coordinated with the International School of Humanitarian Thoughts and Practices to send over $1,000 to assist in relief efforts in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. 

• In July of 2007 Humanist Charities worked with the D.R. Schools Project to help bring free, secular and non-discriminatory education to Haitian-Dominican children living in the community of El Mogote, Dominican Republic. With donations totaling over $2,000, Humanist Charities was able to support the cost of the library building at the school. 

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