Media Kit
The Disarm Education Fund plays a vital role in movements for peace, social justice, and human rights at home and around the world. Disarm makes sure that the vital components of peace – medical care, education, and human rights – reach those who need them most.
Over 30 years ago, Disarm began as an organization working to ban all private ownership of handguns. Later efforts focused on nuclear weapons – Disarm was an early and persistent advocate for a reduction of the bloated military budget. Today, we advocate for the redirection of government resources to education, and the alleviation of poverty and suffering.
In Cuba, we continue our decade-long efforts to pierce
the cruel U.S. embargo. In nine years, Disarm's Cuban Medical Project
has shipped more than $71 million worth of vital medicines and supplies
to 60 hospitals and neighborhood clinics.
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In Guatemala, we're working to counter hostile, misguided
U.S. foreign policy. We're currently working with Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rigoberta Menchú Tum in the development of primary care programs
to help reverse the extreme lack of medicine, medical personnel, and essential
health care available to the indigenous Indian population.
Learn more.
And in Nicaragua, whose people have suffered so greatly
because of past and present decisions by U.S. policymakers – we
are providing medical treatment for men, women, and children who would
otherwise have no relief from illness and injury.
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Central America and the Caribbean are but a short flight from the U.S. – yet critical medical and health care services are almost nonexistent. Disarm is working with experts to teach indigenous populations the techniques and strategies necessary for sustained growth. Over the course of a few visits, we train our local colleagues to perform complex medical procedures on their own.
The Disarm Education Fund promotes peace and social justice by forming strategic partnerships – bolstered by humanitarian and technical aid – with popular social movements in developing countries, and through advocacy in the United States for a foreign policy focused on human rights and human needs.
