Ms. Anita Singh is the Country Director with a robust team in Nepal PROFOH Board.
PROFOH is headquartered in the United States of America with most of the prominent Global Board Members and Advisory Board Members forming the HQ team which runs PROFOH Internationally.
Professionals For Humanity (PROFOH) is a global brand that was established in October 1998, during the interventions in the Jesse Fire Disaster in Delta State, Nigeria. That mission was supported by the Netherlands Embassy, South Africa High Commission, UNICEF, etc.
Since inception, our mandate has been to provide emergency services portfolio that consists of health, quality education, safe drinking water, poverty reduction interventions and Climate Sustainability . around the world. Our global membership is about 10,000 professionals.
PROFOH’s headquarters was located first in Texas (2014) and recently we have moved to Washington, D.C. in the year 2022.
PROFOH has and continues to strengthen the capacities and capabilities of domestic and international health services across the globe.
PROFOH is now officially incorporated in the following countries, while having presence in 15 other countries:
Nigeria,
United Kingdom,
Germany,
Ghana,
India,
Jamaica,
Nepal,
South Africa and
Ireland.
We also have our active membership in many other countries including Brazil, Italy, Czech Republic, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Kenya, Benin Republic, Liberia, Cameroon and the United Kingdom for our humanitarian missions.
PROFOH’s funding has largely come from its Board and members, and we have also received financial support from public spirited individuals; organizations and governments, including UNICEF; and the Japanese, Netherlands, and South African governments through their embassies.
Since 1998, PROFOH and its partners have conducted several education missions in public and private schools; provided writing desks; awarded scholarships; donated medical equipment and supplies to several public and private hospitals in Ghana and Nigeria; provided hundreds of households with filters for safe drinking water; immunized more than 50,000 children against Polio; and performed over 20,000 bold surgeries and more than 1.6 million
OP cases globally.
As an organization, we have organized world class summits and forums to recommend solutions to policy makers and respective governments on how to improve the underfunded public health sector and to create a better world.
PROFOH has also participated in several global conferences, roundtables and dialogues, among which are:
United Nations Conference of State parties in Marrakesh – Morocco, Dubai – UAE, Athens – Greece, Vienna – Austria,
Amman – Jordan, Istanbul -Turkey
World Bank Springs Meeting Dialogue, Washington, DC, United States.
United Nations General Assembly Stakeholders Hearings on Universal Health Coverage, New York, United States.
UN COP , Vienna, Austria.
COSP 10, Atlanta Georgia United States.
And many more.
The organization has received ten international honors and awards, including Humanitarian Organization of the Year 2013 by GTF London and City of Athens, Greece as well as the 2021 Go-Global Award by International Trade Council, Washington, D.C., USA.
We have equally received Goodwill messages and letters of commendation from world leaders such as Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, etc..
PROFOH is the official partner of the Medical School of Texas A&M University since 2011-a foremost institution that has provided international leadership in the education of physicians and medical scientists in biomedical research and in the application of medical knowledge for the advance health care delivery globally and also top British government agencies including United Kingdom International Health Management Association (UKIHMA) British Integrated Solutions Export Network, (BISEN).The European Center For Leadership, Education and Entrepreneurship (ECLEE) -France. Etc.
Our Technical Partners includes the following:
WHO TB Partnership – Geneva;
Treatment Action Group – New York;
United Nations UNCAC – Berlin;
Global Thinkers Forum – London;
International Sanitation Organization – New Jersey;
Commonwealth Foundation – London;
Medical Mission International Texas; United Nations UNODC – Vienna;
Earthwide Surgical Foundation – Texas;
Drug Free Australia – Sydney;
World Bank Springs Meeting Dialogue – Washington, DC;
Global Cancer Care & Research Institute, Nairobi.
UKIHMA , London
BISEN, London
ECLEE, Paris
A 2 Z Universals FZ-LLC – U.A.E.
PROFOH NIGERIA LTD – Nigeria
GLOBAL BOARD:
Ms. Reem N. Bsiaso, Chair – Jordanian.
Dr. Gbemuotor Dan Kama, ED- Nigerian
Prof. Brian Camazine – American
Mr. Cliff Henry Jarrell – American
Mr. Markus von-Have, German
Dr. Gbaranen Gbanaador – American
Ms. Melina Masanovic – Serbian
Dr. Alexander Rochlitz – German
Ms. Angela C. Johnson – American
Dr. Conrado Ordonez – American
Prof. Yitzhak Lippin – Israeli
Mr. Nicolaas Herholdt – South African .
Ms. Claudia N. Scott – American
ADVISORY BOARD:
Prof. Stuart Quartemont, Chair – American
Amb. Joe Ayalogu – British
Dr. Marcia Russell – Jamaican
Ms. Jutta Wisura – German
Mr. Orson Nurse – American
Mr. Matthias Gerhardy – German
Ms. Anita Singh – Nepalese
Mr. Yaron Aharon – Israeli
Mr. Mansur Arif Shamsi – Indian
Ms. Camille Bradshaw – American
Ms. Sabine Dohlus – German
Mr. Allan Martin – British
Nepal Board:
Ms. Anita Singh – Chair
Mr. Anand Raj Khadka – Vice President
Mrs. Jenny Silwal – General Secretary
Mr. Ram Chalitra Thakur – Treasurer
Mr. Dinesh Ghote – Member
Mrs. Ram Kumari Devi – Member
Mrs. Susmita Dahal – Member
For More Details Contact:
Dr Marcia Russell
Director
PROFOH Headquarters Address:
112 Upsal Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032-2481, USA.
March 13th 2024
Dear All,
We are very pleased to inform you that PROFOH Nepal had conducted a 7- Day Poverty Reduction Mission – under the PROFOH’ s Social Upliftment Theme. Many Items were distributed like Relief materials, Blankets, Clothing, Groceries and Cheques to families at Sarlahi District, Madhesh Province, which is 250 km from Kathmandu, Nepal, during 13th March to 21st March, 2024 . Anita Singh Country Director for Nepal, overlooked the entire mission with great success !! A Press statement was issued regarding the same.
HAND WASHING AND SAFE WATER DRINKING ACTIVITY ORGANISED IN NEPAL
EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS EVENT CONDUCTED BY PROFOH NEPAL
PROFOH Nepal had organized a day awareness program at a Government School of a remote Village of Bara Udhoran in the Sarlahi District of Janakpur Zone of South Eastern NEPAL which is only government school in the Village.
Surprisingly, there is no hospital in this remote village and people are very poor and do not have access to proper health facilities and moreover the villagers do not any awareness of usage of any sanitization or mask.In order to bring awareness and educate the children of this government school PROFOH NEPAL took initiative and conducted this Educational Awareness Program on the same.
This initiative will definitely trigger the health hygiene values of using sanitizers and masks in these remote households by means of this educational awareness program through the school children to protect against the pandemic and especially after the new variant of Covid making its scare all over the world again.
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