CHANGE MAKERS
AN INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
Change Makers International is a non-profit organization aimed at improving lives, and environmental conditions to help alleviate diseases such as Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, Measles, HIV/AIDS, Flu, Ebola, Zika, Rabies, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria, cholera and diarrhea caused by environmental unsustainability factors like water and drainage systems, air pollution, climate, food, waste management systems, etc. the organization aims to also provide food and clothing for the homeless, needy and less privileged in the society especially during the festive seasons.
OUR AIM IS TO HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY FOR ALL
Our aim is to see a much better society
Activities &
Events
Here's what we seek to do in our societies
Clean up Exercise
A community based clean up exercise to be organized in the wake of the Christmas festivities
Feed the Needy
Coming together to help feed those who have little in our communities
School visits
Visits to special school to donate educational materials
FOUNDERS
The founding of CM International was made into reality by Kwadwo Ofori, an African immigrant from Atia, a small village in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The organization was co-founded by Samuel Owusu, Toure Abdarahmane and Bernard Opoku. Helping out was Michael Asiedu-Adjei a recent graduate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2017) Kumasi - Ghana, West Africa. The three above friends from Ghana attended Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the nation’s first HBCU in Thornbury township, a surburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States of America. Being members of the prestigious keystone honors academy, leadership and initiative skills were instilled in them, with their desire, determination, and discipline to contribute their quota for the development of the world. The global rising concern on climate change and its detrimental effects, they believed they could contribute significantly by involving the community to organize clean up exercises and health walks to improve the health of the people by improving the quality of air, cleaning choked drainage systems, planting trees, eliminating breeding grounds of pests among other environmental improvement deeds.
GET INVOLVED
WHY PARTNER WITH CMI?
Becoming a CMI Partner for Change means a willing and strong determination to see to a better society;strong and steady timely funding that can allow CMI to deliver lasting impact to families and communities in need around the world.
EVENT SPONSORSHIP
Your support is crucial to bring about social change in the lives of children and their communities. By sponsoring a CRY event, you not only ensure that your brand or organisation reaches out to a wide range of people, but also partner CRY in raising the necessary funds.
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We stand for Lasting Change:We focus on mobilisation and empowerment of communities. Our approach gets to the root cause of these developmental issues – such as non-functioning schools, filth-filled localities, famine hit areas among others thereby creating an enabled change that can sustain itself.
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Give your brand visibility
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Partnering with us. Be a part of our endeavour to make lasting change
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Enhance your brand image and be known as a socially conscious organisation
As an Advocate for Change, you can help amplify the voices of the voiceless.
Millions of people are still denied the simple joys of childhood, love and protection. And for any change on a significant scale, it will require each one of us to start thinking of these less privileged, not as objects of sympathy, but as citizens with the same rights that we consider our due.
You can be a powerful CMI advocate as its communicator. Speak to your friends, family and colleagues to create awareness about the situation of hunger, filth etc, mobilise support for CMI and its efforts to ensure a much better society
ADOPT A PROJECT
When you adopt a project, you can choose to support an entire project or just a part of it, based on its area of focus – like education, health, vocational training, or its area of work
ISSUES AND VIEWS
Undernutrition contributes to nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 and is widespread in Asia and Africa
Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year. Undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and contributes to delayed recovery. In addition, the interaction between undernutrition and infection can create a potentially lethal cycle of worsening illness and deteriorating nutritional status. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can also lead to stunted growth, which is irreversible and associated with impaired cognitive ability and reduced school and work performance.
source : UNICEF Data:
Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women
Amid a rapidly growing world population, waste management issues are becoming increasingly crucial for the promotion of environmental sustainability, delegates at the conclusion of a two-day United Nations conference on the matter heard today.
At the latest meeting of the Global Partnership on Waste Management (GPWM), hosted by the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Osaka, Japan, waste experts from around the world addressed the ongoing problems surrounding waste management, discussing how to reap greater economic and environmental benefits through better mutual cooperation.
“Basic human needs such as clean water, clean air and safe food are jeopardized by improper waste management practices, with severe consequences for public health,” a UNEP news release warned, adding that improper waste management could lead to the spread of diseases, as well as contaminate the surrounding air, water and land.
The UN agency noted that municipal waste is a growing burden for communities around the globe, citing World Bank statistics estimating waste volumes to grow from 1.3 billion tonnes to 2.2 billion tonnes by 2025.
source : UN News Center
Links between waste management and environmental sustainability
SUPPORTING EDUCATION
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.
Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.
Through our visits and donations of educational materials we hope to contribute our quota to the improvement of the educational systems in our communities
THE GLOBAL GOALS
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The world has just made its biggest ever promise to itself. Our leaders have agreed 17 Global Goals that would mean a better life for all of us. They would virtually end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change in the next 15 years. It’s one of the most incredible to-do lists ever written – but now we need to turn words into action. You – yes you – have the power to make sure our leaders keep these world-changing promises. You’ve got more than 8 million ONE members standing behind you, so let’s make it happen.
STAND AS ONE
World leaders have agreed to 17 Global Goals that would mean a better life for all of us. The Goals are a plan to build a world where children don't go to bed hungry, where girls get the same opportunity to thrive as boys, and where people don't die of preventable diseases. It's one of the most incredible to-do lists ever written - but now we need to turn words into action.
''As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest''.
Nelson Mandela
Mandela's words represent what it means to be a ONE member and at the birth of these ambitious new goals, we will not rest until they are achieved. Stand with more than 8 million others and in Mandela's honour - pledge to use your voice. We know it has power to change lives and bring about a better world for all of us, as ONE.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Mother Teresa
“Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population – still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.” Jonathan Sacks
“One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.” Jeff Bridges
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will. Chai Jing
