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Asia & Pacific
EAST ASIAN PARTNERS
Cambodia and Burma
Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC)
Unit 4, 18 Floor, Hollywood Centre,
233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
http://www.amrc.org.hk
India
Tamil Nadu Science ForumBalaji Sampath, C2 Ratna Apts.
AH 250, Shanti Colony, Annanagar
Chennai, TAMIL NADU 600040, India
http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=205
Association for India's Development
P.O Box "F",
College Park, MD 20741-3005, USA
http://aidindia.org/main/
West Bengal Voluntary Health Association
19 A Dr. Sundari Mohan Avenue,
700 014 Kolkata, India
http://www.wbvha.org/
Medico Friends Circle
11, Archana, Kanchanjunga Arcade,
163, Solapur Road, Hadapsar, Pune 411028
http://www.mfcindia.org/
Voluntary Health Association of India
B-40, Qutab Institutional Area,
South of I.I.T., New Delhi - 110 016
http://www.vhai.org/
All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN)
A 60 Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India 110 016.
http://www.aidanindia.org/
Navdanya
A-60, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India 110016
http://www.navdanya.org/
PHM -The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
http://phm-india.org/
CHETNA (the Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness)
B-Block 3rd Floor SUPATH-II,
Opp. Vadaj Bus Terminus Ashram Road,
Vadaj Ahmedabad-380013, Gujarat India.
http://www.chetnaindia.org/
Millennium Relief and Development Services
4755 - 217 A Street
Langley, BC V3A 2N8, Canada
http://www.mrds.org/
Malaysia
The Society of Christian Service (SCS)
23, 2nd Floor
Longbridge Road, C.D.T. 58
96000 Sibu, Sarawak
Email: http://www.syfswat.org/
Vietnam
Pearl S. Buck International (PSBI)
520 Dublin Rd
Perkasie, PA 18944
http://www.psbi.org
Partner Profile: Workers Book partner, Asia Monitor Resource Center
The Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC), www.amrc.org.hk, has been promoting democratic labor movements in Asia and the Pacific for nearly 30 years. AMRC engages in a variety of strategies to empower workers and create long-term movements for change, including training and organizing, research, advocacy, and international consulting. Combining a gender conscious approach with one that views worker activism as key to securing workers' rights, the AMRC's philosophy is closely aligned with Hesperian's-empowering and organizing communities as the best means for ensuring health. AMRC is a key reviewer of draft sections of A Factory Workers' Guide to Organizing for Safe Jobs and Healthy Communities. Earlier this year, AMRC used suggestions from our garment chapter in health and safety workshops with Burmese and Cambodian garment workers. They are eagerly awaiting the completed manual, and we anticipate working with them on translating it into several languages. Partnering with groups such as AMRC helps us make our materials effective tools for training and education.
Click here for more information about A factory worker's guide to organizing for safe jobs and healthy communities.
Photo above: A group of Cambodian garment workers in a workshop to develop trainers to do factory trainings. Conducted with the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Democratic Workers Union (ccadwu), a Cambodian trade union federation.
Read what others are saying about us!
Here you'll find excerpts from letters and e-mails we've received in recent years noting the impact of our materials on particular communities, organizations or projects:
"When we first read the English version of A book for midwives, we were extremely impressed by the rich pictures and creative style. We selected some of the content and translated this into Chinese to disseminate to all levels of both professional and non-professional maternal and child health workers involved in midwifery. People like this book so much because it is easy to understand; it turns a complicated description and knowledge of midwifery into something that ordinary people find simple and readily comprehensible. We feel this book is the one that we have been looking for to provide to village doctors and midwives as a handbook."
Susan Roelofs
Yunnan Maternal and Child Health Project, Translation
China
"I, with confirmation, can say that Where there is no doctor and A book for midwives are most valuable and useful. They are more practical than even all medical education related books. It is essential to build capacity of willing volunteers at village level... I am using [these books] during training of female health workers, Traditional Birth Attendants, health staff's skill improvements, school teacher training workshops about health education and male health volunteers at village level."
Dr. Parsram Pardesi, Sindh, Health Worker/Health Volunteer Training
Pakistan
"Our doctors have been using your books to supplement their knowledge in health care and spreading health awareness, our community health workers have used them in their health education work and occasionally to question the practice of doctors. People who come for care at the clinic use them to learn more about their bodies and about ways to improve their and their community's health… We congratulate you for producing such beautiful and empowering books. We are sure you receive words of appreciation from people all over the world. In our clinic, we consider your publications as reference points to judge the content, style and language of all health communication material we produce."
Satinath Sarangi
Bhopal People's Health and Documentation Clinic
Bhopal, India
West Bengal Voluntary Health Association (WBVHA)
WBVHA is a state-level non-governmental organization (NGO) based in West Bengal, India. The primary objectives of WBVHA are to promote community health, social justice and human rights related to the provision and distribution of health services in West Bengal. It promotes a scientific attitude to health without ignoring West Bengal's natural traditions and resources. To date, WBVHA has completed 12 translations or adaptations of Hesperian books into Bengali, Oriya, Hindi and English.
Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST)
INSIST works with a network of 17 independent Indonesian NGOs and promotes democracy, gender justice, environmental protection and human rights through consultation, research and training. INSIST has translated Where women have no doctor, Helping children who are blind, and HIV, health, and your community into Indonesian. After the disaster in Southeast Asia, Hesperian partnered with INSIST, passing donations to the organization as they coordinated relief efforts in Banda Aceh and Nias.