Alliance for Medical Outreach and Relief

AMOR's COPE program consists of a team which includes two midwives, a patient educator, a vaccinator, a female physician, and a driver/security guard. This team visits five different clinic sites on a rotating basis each week; one clinic is visited each day of the week.
The clinics are located in extremely impoverished areas that have limited access by vehicle, and no public transportation. The people living in these areas are usually illiterate, with strong religious, cultural, and traditional ties. Each site is essentially a small village type setting with a significant number of people living in the area. Since no true medical facilities exist in these areas, space is rented in a home of one of the business leaders where we can hold the clinic. This space usually consists of two or three rooms; space for an education class, an exam area, and a vaccination area. AMOR will be adding 5 more COPE sites in 2016.

The HerTime initiative expands on the health education AMOR currently provides to girls in the public schools surrounding our cornerstone project in Kabul, Afghanistan to include providing sanitary supplies to the girls free of charge. Research is showing that the more time a girl spends in school, the more likely she will grow to be healthy, well-nourished and economically empowered when it comes to her well-being and that of her children. Educating girls also is a positive force for the economic growth of a community.
AMOR is launching production in 2016 using a compact low-cost machine invented by Indian social entrepreneur, Arunachalam Muruganantham. The machine will produce 1,400 sanitary pads a day, in a simple three step process using readily available raw materials for $0.13 each. The initiative will also employ three local Afghan women to operate the machine out of Afshar Hospital. Once produced, a month’s supply of 21 pads will be distributed by our Health Educator to approximately 1,000 girls enrolled in the health education classes. Accommodations for proper disposal of the used pads will be made available to the girls as well.
In addition, our program is being developed based on direct input from the Health Educator and other Afshar Hospital female staff, ensuring that we remain culturally sensitive, yet forward thinking.

This project will transform health outcomes and improve the quality of life for farm workers and their families who are the hidden backbone of one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions. Our vision is to fill gaps in services in this medically under-served and impoverished area and to build a healthier, more vibrant and prosperous community in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. AMOR will partner with an unprecedented alliance of local community based organizations who will offer after hours preventative and specialty health care with comprehensive wraparound social services, including a safe and secure environment for developing youth.

The AMOR Wellness Center is a health and neighborhood resources center in Mendota, California. Two buildings on site house a variety of community benefit organizations, agencies and nonprofits that provide essential services including medical, mental, social, family and youth services.
The AMOR Wellness Center brings together all of the much-needed services that can only be found in Fresno under one roof. It provides wraparound support to the under-served city of Mendota and the surrounding rural communities.
Additional features of the AMOR Wellness Center include: food pantry, computer room, conference rooms, smart classrooms, basketball court, playground and community garden.