Our Story
Fifteen years of showing up for people the world too often overlooks.
Hope for Humanity Foundation began with a single food drive in a flooded neighborhood. Today we run education, healthcare, food, and development programs across 14 countries — but the reason hasn’t changed.
Why We Exist
Poverty isn’t a lack of effort. It’s a lack of access.
In 2011, our founder Dara Whitfield was volunteering after a flood displaced hundreds of families in the Philippines. She noticed something: the families weren’t asking for handouts. They were asking for a working clinic, a school that hadn’t washed away, and a way to feed their children until the next harvest.
Hope for Humanity Foundation was built on that distinction. We don’t deliver charity as an ending — we build the education, healthcare, food security, and infrastructure that let communities take it from there themselves.
What Guides Us
Four commitments behind every program we run
Dignity First
We design programs with the people we serve, never for them from a distance.
Radical Transparency
Every dollar is tracked and published. Ask us anything — we’ll show our work.
Local Leadership
88% of our field staff are hired from the communities we work in.
Long-Term Thinking
We stay for years, not news cycles — measuring impact a decade out.
Our Journey
From one flooded village to a global foundation
Founded after emergency flood relief work in the Philippines revealed the need for long-term community investment, not just crisis response.
Launched our first Education & Youth Support scholarship cohort, enrolling 210 children across three rural districts.
Opened our Healthcare Initiatives division with the first mobile clinic fleet, reaching villages with no permanent medical access.
Scaled Food & Relief Assistance to meet a global surge in need, delivering over 500,000 meals in a single year.
Introduced Sustainable Development programs — clean water systems and climate-smart farming — in partnership with local cooperatives.
Now operating in 14 countries with 63 communities reached and over 211,000 people supported since our founding.
Leadership
The team stewarding every gift you give
Our leadership team combines decades of field experience with rigorous financial and program oversight.
Dara Whitfield
Founder & Executive Director
Malik Osei
Director of Field Programs
Renata Alves
Chief Financial Officer
Samuel Adeyemi
Director of Partnerships
Want the full picture? Read our latest annual report.
See exactly how every donation was allocated last year, program by program.