Our Vision
The MENTOR Initiative (‘MENTOR’) saves lives in emergencies through tropical disease control and then stays to help people recover from crisis with dignity. MENTOR works side by side with communities, health workers and health authorities to leave a lasting impact.
Our Mission
The MENTOR Initiative is a discrete, agile organisation working with the world’s most vulnerable and hard to reach communities to reduce death and suffering from tropical diseases.
Our first and last considerations are the needs of the people we serve. Working in insecure and high risk environments we establish large scale disease control during humanitarian emergencies. At the same time, we develop the capacity for the long-term sustainable control of these diseases.
We collaborate closely with communities, health workers, health authorities and other international organisations to establish effective surveillance, preventative and curative services and learning for
the future.
The strength of our partnerships bring together knowledge, power and resources for the greatest impact.
Our investment in targeted operational research brings evidence-based and proven disease control solutions to all our programmes. We use this learning to innovate, reduce costs and influence international policy and practice.
We will always uphold the highest professional values, standards, quality and accountability and our teams are committed to stay until the job is done.
Statement on Humanitarian Principles
As a humanitarian organisation, The MENTOR Initiative fully subscribes and is oriented by the core humanitarian principles of neutrality, independence, humanity and impartiality.
MENTOR takes a neutral stance in conflict scenarios providing disease control interventions to anyone affected by the conflict regardless of their position in the conflict. MENTOR is also independent from any religious, political, military views an actor may have in a particular conflict regarding the needs of the affected population, not taking any part in local politics when designing our programs.
MENTOR also subscribes to the humanity principle by putting at the core of its activity implementation the respect for human beings, considering their suffering and the needs they may be facing. MENTOR takes an impartial approach in the countries we operate, not taking a side in a conflict situation nor benefiting a particular group of population instead of other, considering only the needs of the affected populations.