SWISS WORKING GROUP
An initiative to reform humanitarian development operations, save lives, and improve the health of millions of people.
The Challenge
Climate change disproportionately impacts the health of people in developing nations who have the least access to adequate healthcare services. Air pollution in particular is driving an exponential increase in respiratory illness and deaths. Seven million to nine million people per year perish from respiratory disease caused by air pollutants, with no preventive treatment currently available.
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Meanwhile, the humanitarian development systems that we rely on to help lack the appropriate resources and impact. Rather than building local community resilience, they create unsustainable dependency.
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Our Response
A steward-owned B corporation will develop and distribute a new drug therapy affordable to people living in poverty that has been shown to prevent or mitigate respiratory disease and death.
The bulk of proceeds will support a new independent non-profit organization that will develop and operate permanent teaching hospitals in rural and remote areas of developing countries, providing free high-quality healthcare. Once established, ownership will be transferred to the local communities. The hospitals will be designed, built, and operated at the highest possible environmental standards to offset further climate impacts, improve health outcomes, catalyze economic development, and increase resilience.
The commitment of this initiative to transformative change includes innovative approaches in all facets of the organizations in order to deliver greater impacts and provide a new model for the humanitarian sector. For the B corporation, this includes everything from its ownership and legal structures, to its internal organizational structures, and a diverse executive team of dynamic leaders representing people who have traditionally been systemically and structurally excluded from these positions and opportunities.
Join Our Team
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
We are assembling a team of exceptional senior leaders to develop and launch this innovative program. We are looking for visionary leaders for the future B corporation with the highest integrity, extraordinary creativity, and absolute commitment to our social mission.