East Meets West (non-governmental organization)
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| name = Thrive Networks, also known as East Meets West
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| type = INGO
| founded_date = 1988
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| founder = Le Ly Hayslip
| location = Offices in the US, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, India and Uganda
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| area_served = Asia and Africa
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| num_employees = 110
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| homepage = [http://www.thrivenetworks.org/ thrivenetworks.org]
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East Meets West (EMW), known in the United States as Thrive Networks, is an international philanthropic non-governmental organization for people in Asia and Africa. It was founded in 1988 by author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip and is based in Oakland, California, United States.[http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=410 About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726012937/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=410|date=2011-07-26}}. East Meets West/ In 2014, EMW relaunched in the United States as Thrive Networks.
History
From Le Ly's early projects, Mothers Love Pediatric Clinic and Peace Village Medical Center, East Meets West was created in Vietnam. In 1993, East Meets West received a grant from the United States Agency for International Development. In 1998, the organization partnered with Atlantic Philanthropies.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
BOL formed a major partnership with GE Healthcare in 2011.[http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111117005834/en/GE-Healthcare-Partners-East-Meets-West-Foundation "GE Healthcare Partners with East Meets West Foundation" Business Wire (November 17, 2011)] In 2013, EMW and Blue Planet Network signed an agreement to merge.{{Cite web |url=http://blueplanetnetwork.org/news/bpn_emw_merger.php |title="East Meets West and Blue Planet Network to Merge" Blue Planet Network News (August 29, 2013) |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-date=September 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925170858/http://blueplanetnetwork.org/news/bpn_emw_merger.php |url-status=dead }} In 2014, EMW relaunched in the United States as Thrive Networks but continues to operate as East Meets West in Asia.{{Cite web|title=Thrive network|url=https://thrivenetworks.org/}}
Programs
=Healthcare programs=
File:Breathoflife emw.jpg]]The Breath of Life program provides custom-designed equipment to hospitals to save infants suffering from pathologies. EMW's neonatal health model was adapted and replicated to serve Laos, Cambodia, and Timor Leste in 2008 and more recently in India, Myanmar, and the Philippines.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=344|title=EMW Breath of Life Program|access-date=2012-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530134531/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=344|archive-date=2012-05-30|url-status=dead}}{{Better citation needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=August 2024}} EMW builds medical institutions. In the past decade, with support from Atlantic Philanthropies, EMW has invested over $50 million in building hospitals in Vietnam.[http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=488 EMW Medical and Healthcare Programs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430231303/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/page.aspx?pid=488|date=2012-04-30}}.{{Better citation needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=August 2024}}
In 2006, East Meets West organized medical equipment donations for Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi. In 2015, Embrace, a non-profit organization founded at Stanford University in 2008, joined Thrive Networks's healthcare programs.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
=Clean water and sanitation=
The Clean Water & Sanitation Program incorporates a hygiene training component.[http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=399 EMW Clean Water and Sanitation Program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726012849/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=399|date=2011-07-26}}.{{Better citation needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=August 2024}} EMW has helped finance the construction of 12,500 latrines in partnership with Watershed Asia and USAID.{{When|date=August 2024}} In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded East Meets West a US$10.9{{Nbsp}}million grant to improve sanitation and hygiene practices among the rural poor in Vietnam and Cambodia.[http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/08/gates-foundation-awards-11m-to-east.html "Gates Foundation awards $11M to East Meets West" San Francisco Business Times (August 16, 2012)]
Partners and funding
EMW had partnered with GE Healthcare, Design that Matters, Masimo, and the International Children Assistance Network.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=609|title=EMW Partners|access-date=2012-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103135034/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=609|archive-date=2012-01-03|url-status=dead}}
EMW receives funding support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, the Lemelson Foundation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wellcome Trust, Dubai Cares, etc.{{Cite web |title=EMW Funders |url=http://www.eastmeetswest.org/Page.aspx?pid=626 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430232431/http://www.eastmeetswest.org/page.aspx?pid=626 |archive-date=2012-04-30 |access-date=2012-01-20}}
See also
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Category:Children's charities based in the United States
Category:Health charities in the United States
Category:Charities based in California
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Category:Foreign charities operating in Vietnam