| Founder | Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD |
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| Focus | Health promotion in poor urban African communities |
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Area served | Nima and Maamobi, Accra, Ghana |
| Method | Combination of academia, community service and research |
Members | 16 |
Key people | Jonathan D. Mayer, PhD, President Michael Wilson, PhD, Vice President Joseph Oppong, PhD, Treasurer Julia Lowe, BA, Secretary |
Volunteers | 2 |
| Website | www.hip-ghana.org |
Health Improvement and Promotion Alliance (HIP-Ghana) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Participants are from Ghana, the United States and Norway.
Children in Nima
The organization's mission is to provide a nonprofit environment with low overhead for health promotion and social research of urban slums in Africa. It embraces the idea that poor health is a product of underlying social inequality, environmental degradation and biological processes.
Several projects are underway in Nima and Maamobi, the poorest areas of Accra.
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