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AMDA-MINDS is a non-governmental organization having
its origin in the Office of Project Operations and Community
Services of the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia
(AMDA). It was newly incorporated in April 2007 and succeeded
all of the Japan-funded mid-/long-term humanitarian and
development projects from AMDA. Dr. Shigeru Suganami,
President of AMDA, envisaged the path leading to improvement
of the quality of social development services through
capacity building and enhancement of practical and intellectual
base in such specialized fields as microfinance, income
generation, livelihood, education, participatory methods
that are often integrated with health sectors when pondering
poverty alleviation. AMDA-MINDS currently implements projects
in Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Zambia, Djibouti, Honduras,
and Peru.
AMDA-MINDS is an integral part of AMDA (Group) that holds
a General Consultative Status at the United Nations Economic
and Social Council. Within the group, it collaborates
with such other sister organizations as AMDA International
Medical Information Center, AMDA Organization for Global
Assistance and Relief, and AMDA-International.
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AMDA-MINDS
serves for the utter needs of the rural communities as
well as urban slums where people wish to improve their
health and living conditions.
In search of solutions,
sharing and discussing about humanitarian and developmental
issues with stakeholders, AMDA-MINDS assist communities
in a variety of forms, i.e. facilitating and strengthening
community-based organizations consisting of youth, women,
and other members of various interests, organizing micro-credit
and vocational training programs, and helping to construct
small-scale infrastructures such as schools, health centers,
village roads, and water and sanitation facilities. Needless
to say, a special emphasis is still placed on the health
sector.
Programs are planned
and implemented in the following areas:
(1) integrated maternal and child health,
(2) empowering women's group for nutrition and reproductive
health,
(3) infectious disease control, in particular, Malaria,
HIV/AIDS and TB,
(4) improving access to basic health services, and
(5) capacity building of health volunteers. By contributing
our capacity to the above services, it is hoped that needs
of today's life are met and tomorrow's hope are materialized. |
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that promotes the AMDA's concept of Sogo-fujo spirit,
our guiding light. Yet, the Japanese Constitution also
depicts that "we desire to occupy an honored place in
an international society striving for the preservation
of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression
and intolerance for all time from the earth. We recognize
that all peoples of the world have the right to live in
peace, free from fear and want. - - - We, the Japanese
people, pledge our national honor to accomplish these
high ideals and purposes with all our resources." Japan
is a country to prohibit exportation of arms and maintain
anti-nuclear policy. We are honored to be a part of AMDA
as well as Japanese civil society that legitimate our
mission towards contribution to poverty alleviation through
Sogo-fujo spirit |
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