Charity of the week: Partners in Health

Fighting the spread of tuberculosis in Russia. Building a hospital in Rwanda using local labor, tools, and materials, rather than big Western construction firms. Helping Haitians recover, physically and emotionally, from last year’s earthquake. Those are just a few of the initiatives of Partners in Health (PIH.org), a Boston-based organization founded in 1987 by five young community-health advocates who had already worked extensively with some of Haiti’s poorest citizens. Targeting infectious diseases prevalent in poor populations, Partners in Health focuses not just on immediate outbreaks but on developing local health-care resources that will endure long after aid organizations have left. It has projects under way in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda, and supports projects in Mexico and Guatemala.

Each charity highlighted here has earned a four-star overall rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities. Charity Navigator ranks not-for-profit organizations on their financial strength, the effectiveness of their programs, their control of administrative and fund-raising expenses, and the transparency of their operations. Four stars is the group’s highest ranking.

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