SCOUT BANANA is a global non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the lack of basic health care in Africa and providing funding and support to sustainable projects and organizations working on the ground that effectively reach people in need.

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Vision:
The young people of today are an incredibly talented and powerful generation. Armed with the tools of change and faced with overwhelming challenges, our generation will be the builders of a global society in which universal human rights are respected and attained in every region of the world – especially the individual right to a healthy life. We must commit ourselves to a focused, effective and collaborative progressive movement that will revolutionize the global health care system by valuing the individual as an interdependent part of the whole, collaborating with communities, and emphasizing difference within equality.

Mission:
To combine efforts to save lives. SCOUT BANANA seeks to build a domestic and international movement dedicated to fundamental social change in which global health is everyone’s responsibility and every individual’s human right.

Goals:
1. Enable projects to benefit from non-profit resources
2. Build a network of scholars, activists, and supporters
3. Connect communities
4. Collect knowledge-based best practices in development

Organization Structure:
One of the biggest difficulties for individuals, who want to make a difference in the world but are not affiliated with an organization, is how to get involved in a movement without that organizational support. SCOUT BANANA plays a unique role in facilitating a relationship between individuals who want to do something and communities that need financial support to design and complete health care projects. By linking individuals, chapters and communities in the U.S. with individuals, communities and projects in Africa, we are able to create change that will be sustained by a grassroots movement. Our primary focus is to build relationships between people and projects in Africa and student and community chapters in the U.S. Chapters in the U.S. are responsible for fundraising for and educating the public about the sponsored project to increase awareness and grow to know each other as people. Because SCOUT BANANA interacts with so many talented and knowledgeable people, we are also able to serve as a hub for best practices and research. Under three separate publications – Articulate, Banana Tree Papers, and The Little Yellow Book – SCOUT BANANA steers new, innovative, and reliable ideas into the global health care movement. By starting with impassioned individuals, SCOUT BANANA believes we can combine efforts to save lives and improve global health.