About Disarm
The Disarm Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes peace, social justice, and human rights. Founded in 1976 as a gun-control group, DISARM has broadened its mission and transformed into an internationally recognized advocacy and medical assistance organization.
All of Disarm’s programs center around one core principle: an immoral and unjust U.S. foreign policy – particularly the practice of “punishing” foreign governments by withholding medicine from civilians – has had a devastating impact on innocent people around the world. Disarm works to reverse and address this travesty by:
- Supplying medicine and medical supplies to hospitals and clinics.
- Providing teams of specialists and surgeons to treat local citizens.
- Launching public education campaigns to mobilize concern here at home and achieve change.
- Advocating to change U.S. government policy – especially the devastating embargo on Cuba.
- Empowering local people by educating health care workers and creating self-sustaining systems.
Today, Disarm’s primary focus is our neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean. Disarm has already delivered life-saving medicine and funds to Cuba and Mexico – in fact, more than $71 million dollars of medicine and medical supplies to Cuba alone! And we are launching new programs to reach out to our neighbors in Guatemala and Nicaragua – countries whose extreme lack of essential health care has amplified the suffering caused by misanthropic U.S. policies of both the past and the present.
Disarm is headquartered in New York City. Learn more about our history.
