Annual Report - Ascend Alliance

MISSION:
Empower those in need to save their
children and ascend out of poverty.
ASCEND, A Humanitarian Alliance is a unique organization where caring
people make an individual impact at home and across the world. Our
Sustainable Development Programs transcend political, cultural, and language
barriers to answer requests for life-saving programs in education,
enterprise, health and simple technology.
ASCEND provides life-skills mentoring to those who need it most. We offer
a “hand up” rather than a “hand out.” We work side-by-side with some
of the most impoverished people of the world, helping them with education
programs and school construction; enterprise training and small
business development; health training, medical and dental services and
building health clinics; technology training, clean water systems, gardens,
greenhouses, food storage, stoves and other energy sources, latrines and
community bathrooms.
As a Service-Learning Participant—on an expedition, as an intern, as part
of a sister-school program, or other volunteer programs—you will have
opportunities to expand your own potential and become informed with
a rich, global perspective. We become partners in progress; sharing the
power within ourselves to help children and families in need
to ASCEND.
HOW Life-skills mentoring with sustainable solutions
in Education, Enterprise, Health and Simple
Technology.
WHERE Africa and Latin America: currently Ethiopia,
Mozambique, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador; with
Headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
WHO Volunteers (young and old)—including expedition
participants and interns—join permanent
staff to mentor children, families and communities
in need.
BACKGROUND ASCEND was organized in 1982
as the Andean Children’s Foundation by Timothy
S. Evans. This foundation was later reorganized
as Chasqui Humanitarian, led by Joel Madsen. In
2005, the Engage Now Foundation, organized by
Tim Evans and Carolyn Dailey, with origins dating
back to 1984, merged with Chasqui Humanitarian
and became known as ASCEND, a Humanitarian
Alliance.