Our Mission

To address health disparities, social and structural determinants of health barriers and facilitate economic integration for minorities, foreign born, underrepresented, underserved populations in United States and beyond through education, literacy, equity, advocacy and positive social change.

Our History

Our vision is to be the sustainable common ground for better health, equity and foster meaningful opportunities. Our impact approach for path to wellness and development is through culturally responsiveness services to communities in need to address health and social drivers of health barriers towards achieving overall community wellbeing.

Health Literacy Levels

The lack of education and health literacy among communities at risk  is manifold causing a direct and indirect impact on their sense of empowerment, low socio-economic status, health care and ultimately poor health.

United States: Only 12% of Americans are considered proficient in their health literacy skills. Improving health literacy could prevent nearly 1 million hospital visits and save over $25 billion a year

Global: Nearly 9 out of 10 adults struggle with health literacy. Even people with high literacy skills may have low health literacy skills in certain situations.

Food Insecurity

San Diego County: 300,000 people including almost 80,000 children are food insecure.

California: More than 1 in 5 Californians — about 8.4 million — currently struggle with food insecurity.

United States: Almost 25% of American adults are food insecure.

Nigeria : Nearly 25 million people with 17 million currently food insecure including 6 million children.

Africa: One in every five Africans goes to bed hungry, and at least 140 million people on the continent face acute food insecurity

Global: 2.4 billion people with 11.3% being severely food insecure.

Access to Healthcare

San Diego County:  7.8% have no health insurance and nearly 12% reported not having a usual place to go when sick or needing health advice.

California: Nearly 3.2 million Californians will remain uninsured in 2022, or about 9.5% of the population age 0-64,

United States:  27.6 million Americans of all ages do not have health insurance

Nigeria:  About 6 out of 10 people lack access to quality primary healthcare services

Africa:  More than half of Africa’s citizens do not have access to the healthcare

Global: Up to 3.5 billion people – almost half the world’s population – lack access to essential health services