The Foundation has focused on helping communities master basic survival skills and then develop sustaining systems for ongoing health, nutrition and education, and finally to develop micro-financing and investment opportunities that help village residents help themselves. Our outreach has always included the most vulnerable of all humans – orphans.

To help expand the impact of the sustainable village concept, One5 has merged with Global Tribe, which has tackled the same challenges as One5 — but on a global basis –  around the world for the last 20 years. The merger creates Global Tribe Partners with offices in Kansas City, Nashville and New Zealand.

“There are thousands of NGOs currently vying for the attention of potential givers,” says David Miller, One5 chairman and chairman of Global Tribe Partners. “With Global Tribe we have found a group whose vision is so similar as to be the same.  By merging the two organizations we can more effectively break through the competing messages of other organizations and more efficiently direct our efforts.”

The combined core tenets will include: health care, education, housing, economic development and leadership. These five pillars comprise the mission of Global Tribe Partners and merge the key elements each organization brings to the relationship.

Two key projects currently under way are the building of a hospital in the village of Maganga in Malawi, Africa, and the launch of a sustainable village of up to 350 homes in Mexico, to include a medical clinic, orphanage and church. Global Tribe will also continue the medical work One5 initiated 48 hours after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

With Malawi sharing the highest Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the world, we are continually made aware of the importance of this women and children’s hospital, which will include a birthing center. As thrilled as we are about building this hospital, we are reminded on every trip of the importance of our partners, Dr. Peter Maseko and Dr. Anne Alaniz, the heart and soul of Pothawira Foundation and this project. Great partnerships are at the very heart of what One5 is all about in our work around the globe. The life saving resources that this hospital will provide to the Salima Region is a strong testament to this!

That includes the Leopold Gallery at 324 W. 63^rd St. in Kansas City’s Brookside neighborhood, which on Friday, June 4 from 6-9 p.m. will feature photographs that Luke Shelton took in Haiti following the earthquake while he was on a relief mission with the One5 Foundation.

Luke has an impressive ability to brilliantly capture the spirit and resilience of the Haitians, especially the children. Sales of Luke’s photographs will go to support the One5 Foundation’s ongoing effort to provide health care to Haiti’s people.

We wish to thank Leopold Gallery owner Paul Dorrell for this opportunity to keep the Haiti disaster in front of the public and allowing One5 to expand our support base in our community.

We hope to see you at the Leopold Gallery on the evening of June 4! Read more about it on Facebook.

As you know, the One5 Foundation has been working with orphans in Haiti for some time and was able to make a real difference for thousands of people after the earthquake struck in January. Because of our experience in Haiti, the One5 Foundation has been selected to demonstrate an innovative water pump that could help provide communities around the world with safe sources of water.

The hand-operated Feltenberger Pendulum Pump is manufactured by Gravitational Energy Corp. of Akron, Ohio. Representatives of the company and One5 Foundation will make public demonstrations at 7:30 and 11:30  a.m., Thursday, March 18 at Leawood City Park, Shelter C, 10601 Lee Blvd.

The device uses gravity (via a pendulum) to help the operator work, making it much less tiring than traditional lever-arm pumps.  It is designed for use in areas where there’s no access to fuel to operate motorized pumps.

Built into the machine is an Aquashield water filtration system that can produce more than 1,000 gallons per hour of clean drinking water, which meets or exceeds the World Health Organization standards.  Virtually any type of contaminated water source can be filtered to these standards.  It can also be set to produce 400-500 gallons per hour of hospital-grade pure water. Larger scale versions of the pump are under development.

This particular pump, the first one manufactured, is on its way to Haiti where it will be put into action by the end of this month, donated by Gravitational Energy.

The Feltenberger Pendulum Pump is the sort of invention that is desperately needed in Haiti and other developing countries. It allows people in specific communities the means to improve their lives dramatically, giving them a foundation of basic health. We hope that other charitable organizations will take notice and sponsor pumps in communities where there is a need.

housing, education, health care, nutrition and economic development. Countries can’t depend on international handouts if they are to pull themselves from poverty; they must learn how to do it themselves, once given the knowledge and tools

Because Nueterrra’s business is health care, our end of the bargain is to encourage our providers to donate their time, expertise and materials to directly tackle the health care needs in specific communities. Our partners build on their own areas of expertise to provide the housing, food and education needs.

In keeping with our health care expertise, we will be changing the name of our foundation from Integral Life Foundation to the One5 Foundation, which comes with the tagline, “One child, one world, five killers.” This refers to the five greatest killers of children in the developing world:

1. Acute respiratory infections (pneumonia)
2. Diarrheal diseases (cholera, typhoid, dysentery)
3. Malaria
4. Infectious and parasitic diseases (measles, whooping cough, TB, worms)
5. HIV/AIDS

We believe the new name will more accurately portray our role in the overall philanthropic strategy – health care. We will help one child at a time to make this one world smaller by connecting them to the health care they need to avoid the five most deadly diseases in the world.

It is tragic that so many children in the world must succumb to these very treatable diseases. We think the new One5 Foundation will be more descriptive of our role so we can better tell our story to potential donors. Countries can only pull themselves from poverty once their basic needs are met, which include basic immunizations, food and clean water.

We continue to support the NCM-C3 Global Growth Fund to provide the financial means to help communities sustain the move from extreme poverty.

The name is changing but our commitment is unwavering.

The Integral Life Foundation strongly supports the efforts of the Global Orphan Project of the C3 Missions. The project focuses on three critical components:

• To build small, eco-friendly children’s homes in villages associated with a church, school or clinic.
• Invest in all the elements needed to develop villages from empty buildings to self-sustaining homes.
• Improve villages’ ability to sustain themselves by investing in economic development ventures.

ILF is partnering with C3 Missions International and has provided vital services to children residing in the orphanages that it supports in Haiti and in Malawi.

• ILF is addressing the housing, health care, educational, economic and spiritual needs of Haiti’s abandoned and forgotten children. Through this partnership, we are building orphanages and medical clinics, and we are providing children with nutritious meals. They are going to school and growing up in a church family.
• Through this partnership in Malawi, we are building a birthing center, medical clinic, and orphanages. We are providing programs for prenatal care, newborn care, and family planning; PMTCT, EID and ART; and to provide for food, clothing, housing, healthcare and education for the orphans and other vulnerable children.

The Global Orphan Project is currently trying to raise $1 million for orphaned and abandoned kids around the world. Currently, for every dollar that you donate, a private foundation will match it through Sept. 20, 2009. So if you donate $100, the orphans will benefit by $200. Here is a link to the Global Orphan Project so you can make your donation, http://theglobalorphanproject.org/donate/. Nearly $300,000 has already been pledged to the effort, please do what you can.

There are more than 140 million kids in the world who need your help. The Global Orphan Project has private investors who underwrite operating expenses, so every penny of your tax-deductible donation goes to orphan care.

The growth of sustainable orphan care in Haiti and in several African countries is a case in point. We are focusing our efforts in existing orphanages through education and health care delivered through Nueterra Healthcare resources and personnel. By offering these very basic components of a full life, we are helping to build communities of young people eager to take control.

It’s amazing to observe the incredible desire of these young men and women not only to better themselves, but to help their communities and their countries as well. They already know in their hearts that they have the solution to building sustainable economies and eliminating extreme poverty.

Because of the horrendous AIDS pandemic that has decimated the parents of these young people, they have lost the entrepreneurial mindset that gets passed from one generation to another. As they learn more and more of their own potential and talents, it’s obvious that they will be able to take advantage of micro-lending opportunities as they mature, individually and collectively.  We have established the NCM/C3 Global Growth Fund in order to provide these types of loans for local business ventures designed to address specific community needs such as agriculture, food distribution and consumer goods among others.

Wherever we go on our monthly fact-finding missions – Haiti, Uganda and Kenya – it’s obvious that the young people we are working with are smart, eager to learn, are hard workers and assertive about their goals. They are not looking for handouts; they are looking for knowledge and skills.

It is so fulfilling to see their faces, hear their voices, to understand their hunger for success and strong ambitions to help their communities. We’ve helped them plant the seeds of their own success. The harvest will be impressive.