Cigna Foundation Announces Grants to Support Health, Well-Being and Sense of Security For Women and Children Worldwide
February 27 2017 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
The Cigna Foundation today announced $120,000 in grants to the
Leaders' Quest Foundation and to Guiding Light Orphans to support
five Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to help improve
the health, well-being and sense of security for women and children
worldwide.
“Together, these five organizations are bringing health and hope
to communities across the globe and helping to guide and serve some
of our world’s most vulnerable. The Cigna Foundation is proud to
stand with these organizations and help them carry out their vital
work,” said David Figliuzzi, Cigna Foundation executive
director.
Leader’s Quest is a global social enterprise that works with
leaders from all sectors who want to create a sustainable, more
inclusive world. “We are honored to receive this extraordinary
grant from the Cigna Foundation in support of our partner
organizations who work tirelessly to improve the health and
well-being of underserved individuals in their communities,” said
Lisa Smith, director of development at Leaders’ Quest. The
following Leader’s Quest organizations will receive support from
the Cigna Foundation:
The Campaign to Sustain Healthy Childbirths, in Kenya, is led by
Jacaranda Health. It’s creating East Africa’s first sustainable and
scalable maternal health service delivery organization for
low-income women. The model provides comprehensive maternity care
at a network of high-quality, affordable maternity hospitals in
peri-urban Nairobi, close to where women need them. Jacarando
Health provides respectful patient-centered obstetric care, safe
delivery, family planning, and postnatal care.
The Right to Pee campaign, in India, is a grassroots advocacy
initiative led by CORO India to address the lack of clean, safe and
free public urinals for women in India. Public toilets for women
are often dirty, with broken doors and no running water or lights.
Where there are no public toilets, the search for a suitable place
comes with the constant threat of sexual harassment or rape. Women
who lack access to clean, safe sanitation tend to drink less water
and control their bladders for as many as 13 hours a day. This has
significant, long-term effects on their reproductive, sexual and
overall health.
Mumbai Mobile Creches runs day care centers for children of
migrant workers living on construction sites in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai
and Thane in the state of Maharashtra. These children come with
their families from different states of India and live in unsafe
surroundings on the dangerous construction sites. The families have
limited access to basic amenities like water, sanitation and
housing. The program focuses on safety of children on the sites,
along with comprehensive support towards education, nutrition and
healthcare needs. The program disseminates information, builds
community relationships, and communicates with migrant workers
living on construction sites. Through community meetings, the
teachers aim to raise awareness about important social, personal,
or community issues and provide relevant information about best
practices and resources to address these issues. Popular topics
include the importance of breastfeeding, vaccinations, parenting
practices, malnutrition in children, and illnesses like nutritional
anaemia and tuberculosis.
Carney's Community in the United Kingdom provides a combination
of sports and boxing fitness sessions, combined with long term,
consistent and unconditional support to their local community’s
most disadvantaged groups (with a focus on ex-offenders and people
with disabilities). The charity recently set up a social enterprise
which trains up participants, and then employs them to deliver
personal training and fitness sessions to the public. It also
provides emotional well-being counseling, family mediation and
mentoring through one-to-one and family therapy sessions.
Additionally, the Cigna Foundation provided a grant to Guiding
Light Orphans Guiding Light Orphans (GLO), an Avon,
Connecticut-based charity, to open a health clinic in a rural
village. The Nyantonzi Community Health Clinic will serve people in
rural Uganda who have little access to health care, and provide a
base for GLO’s Village Health Teams. The teams are made up of
specially trained volunteers who reach out to villagers often
ostracized by others because they have epilepsy, AIDS and other
afflictions.
About the Cigna Foundation
The Cigna Foundation, founded in 1962, is a private foundation
funded by contributions from Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) and its
subsidiaries. The Cigna Foundation supports organizations sharing
its commitment to enhancing the health of individuals and families,
and the well-being of their communities, with a special focus on
those communities where Cigna employees live and work.
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