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Humana People to People is a global network of aid
agencies from more than 40 countries on five continents.
Forged during the upheaval engendered by the system of Apartheid in South Africa in the
1970s, Humana recognized that the end of colonialism and Apartheid in 1994 was
not the end of suffering. While they had assisted in winning
the fight for equality in South Africa, there were communities in need across the globe.
The obvious continuation of their program to help people in South Africa
was to extend this aid to the rest of the world. Thus, Humana People to People was born from the
struggle for basic human rights for all people.

To call Humana People to People an aid agency is to oversimplify its core guiding principles and its aim when it enters communities.
Rather than simply offering aid in the way that one might cover a wound with a bandage, Humana seeks to transform whole communities, giving them tools that will
enable them to solve their current problems and guard against issues that might arise in the future.
This is a “top down” approach that maintains the only way to aid both
people and communities is to fundamentally change the core elements that keep them from succeedi