About Us
About Us
Tum-a-ini is the Swahili word for hope
Tum-a-ini is the Swahili word for hope
Research has shown that this is a critical element of physical and mental well-being. But having a goal or wish isn’t enough; you have to have reason to believe that you will succeed. Empowerment is a component of hope and results from feeling strong and capable, but to feel this requires good health. So a cycle develops, health allows hope and hope improves health. Together they can lead to a productive and satisfying life.
What We Do
Tumaini currently has five undergraduate institutions where we promote public and global health literacy with support of speakers and take a student from each school to a yearly global health meeting at Yale U. We hope to add five more in the next two years. Our board members additionally support affordable total joint replacements in low income countries, give a senior award at DePauw, and teach at Butler and Harvard universities. Tumaini also has an aspirational goal of starting a medical school dedicated to global health education where care of the individual would be combined with population health and concern with the determinants of health.
Join The Mission
The Tumaini Foundation for Global Health and Humanitarianism a dedicated nonprofit organization with a global health mission. Everyone can participate. Click the button below to donate now, or contact us about how you can participate.
Join The Mission
The Tumaini Foundation for Global Health and Humanitarianism a dedicated nonprofit organization with a global health mission. Everyone can participate. Click the button below to donate now, or contact us about how you can participate.
The Tremendous Need for Global Health
Unfortunately, a significant proportion of the world’s population is not healthy and this disparity is profound. For example in Kenya one out of every ten children die before their 5th birthday. Also this disparity is not limited to just low- and middle-resource countries but the disadvantaged worldwide.
As an example, an African-American man living in a high-crime American city can expect to live 21 fewer years than a woman of Asian descent in the United States. An Asian-American woman living in Bergen County, N.J. has an average life expectancy of 91 years while Native Americans in South Dakota have an average life expectancy of only 58 years.
Many are working to alleviate these health care disparities, be they in downtown Baltimore or the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. However, there is no medical school in the U.S. solely dedicated to global health. So a group of individuals joined together to incorporate a not-for-profit foundation, the Tumaini Global Health and Humanitarianism Foundation to promote this.
