Initiatives
Designing4Health
Designing4Health. teaches leaders of communities how to better develop the built environment to protect our health and prevent disease. It teaches a new level of understanding around how we can more successfully address the things that impact our environment and our personal health. It brings together resources to impact communities, neighborhoods and government policy that create barriers to healthy living.
Reclaim It Atlanta/Zero Waste Initiative
In our abundance we have become very wasteful. Our cities and housing stock continue to deteriorate. There are usable materials that are going to landfills. We can do something about this. In collaboration with the Fuller Center for Housing of Greater Atlanta, we have started a building materials reuse center. Our goal is to divert as much waste as we can from the landfills and put it to new use. We have been operating this for a year and have diverted hundreds of tons of waste to various purposes. We have made art, revitalized fire stations, remodeled homes and taken care of tornado damage. All to lower our utilization of landfills.
Water Initiative
Although we use water every day and it appears to be a commodity, our sources of clean water are deteriorating everyday. In third world countries it is worse. They live with waste and water systems intertwined and often have to go hours away to get clean water for the things we take for granted everyday (drinking, bathing, washing clothes, washing dishes and brushing our teeth) Charitable Connections, Inc. is working with an initiative called Water@Work to install clean water systems in the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic, the bateys. There are over 10,000 Haitian slaves held political prisoners in the DOminican Republic. They were brought there by corporations who used their services for the sugar cane industry and thee same corporations pulled out of the Dominican Republic and left these Haitian slaves and their families in a state of dire poverty without proper housing, infrastructure, schools, food systems and water. Our goal is to assist Water@Work to establish 200 - 300 clean water systems in the Bateys at a cost of $15,000 each to begin the restoration of the people and these poverty stricken areas.