Action Alliance International

We ally with other nonprofits to bridge gaps and assist in the smooth and efficient delivery of services to communities. We assist refugees settling in the DFW area in cooperation with World Relief and Catholic Charities. We assist impoverished Guatemalan children to gain an education, relieve chronic malnutrition and acute hunger, and improve their living conditions—empowering them to become self-reliant. We also teach infant resuscitation and supply the needed resuscitation equipment to doctors, nurses, and traditional-birth birthing providers in Guatemala.

For our domestic refugee assistance outreach, we aim to provide all household goods needed in a new refugee home or apartment so the refugees do not have to have their meager relocation resources used for household needs. We work with refugee relocation organizations that assign us specific incoming families. We often set up the home or apartment so that it is immediately usable on the refugee family's arrival. For our Guatemalan outreach, we partner with Fundamaya—registered in both Guatemala and the US as a nonprofit. We support their school sponsorship program, elderly program, nutrition, and clean water program. We also operate our infant resuscitation program through them. Our goal is to assist the Department of Sololá with the needed resources to train and supply all their birthing caregivers in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ resuscitation training program so that it can become the standard of care for all birthing providers.

Goal One: Increase community awareness of our refugee assistance program to allow a variety of donors and volunteers to participate in assisting refugees.

Goal Two: We will focus on continuing the Infant resuscitation program by working with the Sololá Ministry of Health to gather specific data on the program’s efficacy to date.

Goal Three: Improve communication with local partner organizations to use goods and volunteer time efficiently.