Worldwide Healing Hands

Name

Worldwide Healing Hands

Legal name

Worldwide Healing Hands

Website

https://worldwidehealinghands.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kelseyville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Accepts donations from individuals through website and direct mail. Donations support medical missions, equipment purchases, and training programs.
2. Affiliate Shopping Program: Partnership with DubLi.com allowing supporters to earn cash back on purchases, with portions benefiting the organization.
3. In-Kind Equipment Donations: Corporate donations of medical equipment from partners like Karl Storz for use in medical missions.
4. Volunteer-Provided Services: Medical professionals volunteer their time and pay their own expenses, reducing operational costs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Worldwide Healing Hands is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that sends volunteer surgeons, OB/GYNs, midwives, and nurses on international medical missions to underserved areas to deliver direct patient care, train local healthcare providers, and donate medical equipment and supplies. Core programmatic offerings include the Helping Babies Breathe neonatal resuscitation training, the Eradicate Cervical Cancer Initiative using a single-visit screening-and-treat approach, the Clean Delivery Kit for safe childbirth, the Preventing Maternal Death Program, and the Critical Shortage of Healthcare Workers Initiative, alongside local health screenings for homeless populations in Lake County, California.

Product overview

Worldwide Healing Hands is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that operates as a portfolio of medical service programs rather than a unified technology product. The core offerings include medical missions to underserved areas worldwide, the Clean Delivery Kit for safe childbirth, the Helping Babies Breathe neonatal resuscitation program, and the Eradicate Cervical Cancer Initiative. Additional programs address healthcare worker shortages, international medical education scholarships, local homeless health screenings, and partnerships for solar power and infant warmers. These programs work together to improve maternal and child health outcomes in developing regions through direct care, training, and equipment provision.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• International Medical Missions Deploys volunteer surgeons, OB/GYNs, midwives, nurses, and trained traditional birth attendants to underserved regions to provide direct surgical and clinical care, deliver equipment and supplies, and train local healthcare workers. Recipients include ministries of health, public hospitals, and rural health centers in Chad, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nepal, India, Haiti, Cambodia, and Laos.
• Clean Delivery Kit A portable birthing kit containing a clean plastic liner, disposable gloves, gauze, razor blade, string, and soap, with pictorial instruction sheets for Traditional Birth Attendants. Designed to prevent infection during childbirth in resource-limited settings.
• Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Training Program An evidence-based educational program that teaches neonatal resuscitation techniques to birth attendants in resource-limited areas, with the goal of having at least one skilled attendant at every birth. Reported outcomes include reductions in neonatal mortality of up to 47% and fresh stillbirths of 24%.
• Eradicate Cervical Cancer Initiative Comprehensive program bringing education, training, and supplies to developing countries to fight cervical cancer through vaccination and through a single-visit approach combining VIA screening, colposcopy, LEEP, and thermal ablation, enabling women to be screened and treated on the same day.
• Preventing Maternal Death Program Program focused on reducing maternal mortality through on-the-ground education and training for local clinicians and traditional birth attendants, combined with donations of modern medicines and medical equipment such as portable ultrasound machines.
• Critical Shortage of Healthcare Workers Initiative Program addressing the global shortage of healthcare workers by facilitating the training of healthcare professionals in developing communities and providing them with the equipment needed to deliver maternal and neonatal care.
• International Medical Education Fund Scholarship program supporting OB/GYN residents, medical students, and nursing students in their path to higher education, complemented by volunteer professors and trainers delivering medical training programs.
• Local Homeless Initiative Free health screening events and medical care services for homeless and underserved populations in Lake County, California, including rapid response during natural disasters such as wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained 567 healthcare professionals and served over 11,000 families globally since establishment
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered founding, core, major and minor.

• Adventist Health InternationalfoundingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2009Initial partnership under which Worldwide Healing Hands operated before establishing its own 501(c)(3) status in 2012. Adventist Health International provided organizational support and framework for early medical missions, including the founding mission to Chad, Africa in 2009.
• White Ribbon AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with White Ribbon Alliance, a global organization working to decrease maternal and newborn death globally. Dr. Arthur Bikangaga has ties to the alliance and helped facilitate Uganda mission partnership.
• Project Medishare For HaiticoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Project Medishare for Haiti to provide cervical cancer screenings and treatment during medical missions. Also partnered with University of Miami on Haiti missions.
• Himalayan HealthcarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Himalayan Healthcare for Nepal missions in 2012 and 2013. Collaborated on medical missions to Eastern Nepal to perform surgery and train midwives.
• Karl StorzmajorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerCorporate partnership with Karl Storz, a leading surgical instrument manufacturer. Mrs. Sybill Storz donated state-of-the-art surgical instruments including a portable hysteroscope set-up that has traveled worldwide and been instrumental in alleviating suffering in women.
• Rwanda Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Rwanda Ministry of Health for cervical cancer prevention training missions. Invited WHH to introduce training program at University Teaching Hospital of Kigali.
• University of Kigali Teaching Hospital (CHUK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with University Teaching Hospital of Kigali for 2021 and 2022 missions. Trained 40 OB/GYN residents and faculty on VIA screening, colposcopy, LEEP, and thermal ablation.
• Uganda Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing partnership with Uganda Ministry of Health for multiple missions (2015-2024). Training healthcare workers at Muko Health Centre IV and other facilities in Rubanda County, Kabale District.
• Khmer–Soviet Friendship HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Khmer-Soviel Friendship Hospital for Cambodia missions in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
• Mittaphab HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Mittaphab Hospital for planned 2025 mission to Cambodia and Laos.
• PINCCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with PINCC (Partners for International Cervical Cancer Prevention) for 2023 mission to India.
• Surgeons for CambodiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Surgeons for Cambodia for 2022 mission to Cambodia.
• FAMEminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with FAME (likely Flash Aid for Medical Emergencies or similar) for 2017 Tanzania mission.
• Soroka University, Beer Sheva, IsraelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for 2019 Uganda mission with Soroka University medical professionals.
• SUNY-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New YorkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for 2018 Uganda mission with medical professionals from SUNY-Upstate Medical University.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Partners in Health: Global health equity nonprofit providing medical care in underserved countries through partner facilities and local capacity building. Directly comparable volunteer-driven mission model with overlap in maternal health, surgery, and train-the-trainer program design.
• Direct Relief: Humanitarian medical aid organization providing medical supplies, equipment, and training to underserved regions. Comparable mission focus on healthcare capacity building in resource-limited settings, with continuous rather than episodic operations.
• International Medical Corps: Global humanitarian organization delivering medical care and healthcare worker training in conflict-affected and underserved regions. Comparable medical mission and health-worker training model serving similar populations.
• Project HOPE: Global health and humanitarian organization providing medical care, training, and supplies. Comparable medical mission delivery and health-worker training model operating across many of the same regions (Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa).
• Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): International medical humanitarian organization sending volunteer physicians and nurses to underserved and conflict-affected regions. Directly comparable volunteer-driven medical service delivery model in overlapping geographies (Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia).
• mothers2mothers: Nonprofit focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes across Sub-Saharan Africa. Directly comparable mission focus on maternal health in underserved regions and similar reliance on trained lay/frontline health workers as force multipliers.
• Operation Smile: Provides volunteer-led surgical missions in low- and middle-income countries. Closely comparable volunteer-driven surgical-mission delivery model with similar capacity-building and in-country training emphasis.

Broad incumbents

• World Health Organization: UN specialized agency coordinating global public health, including maternal/neonatal health and cervical cancer elimination initiatives. Broad incumbent operating in the same health-equity and capacity-building spaces at much larger scale.
• UNICEF: UN agency providing maternal and child health programming globally. Vastly larger incumbent with overlapping focus on maternal/child health, neonatal mortality, cervical cancer prevention, and frontline health-worker training.
• AmeriCares: Emergency humanitarian aid organization delivering medical supplies, equipment, and care to underserved areas. Overlapping focus on medical relief in low-resource settings; operates continuously rather than via episodic missions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/WW_HealingHands
• Facebookfacebook.com/WorldwideHealingHands
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/worldwide-healing-hands

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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