“Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.”
– President Barack Obama
Our mission is to provide innovative solutions to health challenges in the developing world, adapted to the unique environmental, socioeconomic, and infrastructure conditions in these regions.
Our Beginning
Ingenuitas began from the recognition, based on decades of humanitarian aid, that solutions to health problems are not always transferable from wealthy nations to developing countries. There is a need to look beyond standard approaches and innovate to develop unexpected alternatives to address long-standing and chronic health problems around the world.
“Prometheus saw fit to challenge the status quo in order to elevate humanity through technology. We have the same opportunity in our time.”
— Justin Moretto, Program Director
Ingenuitas is taking direction from the WHO Priority Risks and Future Trends in Environment and Health in Developing Countries and the Millennium Development Goals in an effort to meet the needs of our global community in a unified and systematic way. Applying new and existing technologies in simple and elegant ways to existing problems creates the opportunity to maximize positive impact. We don't simply want to improve peoples living conditions, we want to maximize the effect.
Our Mission
Many of the Priority Risks for Global South countries are challenges not faced in nations of the Global North because of easy access to preventative technologies and education. Providing practical, effective and culturally acceptable solutions to these Priority Risks is an essential priority, particularly in light of developing world trends, such as food availability, climate change, and deepening economic stratification in many societies.
1.7 million
Deaths from unsafe water
1.6 million
Deaths from indoor cooking smoke
1.2 million
Deaths from malaria
With the majority of the world's population growth taking place in the densely populated, urban areas of Global South countries, the stakes are higher than ever.
