Summary
Dear friends, partners, and supporters,
2025 has been a defining and challenging year for people, the planet, and the medical-humanitarian sector – we witnessed and heard about this directly from colleagues, co-collaborators, partners, and participants. We also know that health needs are rising sharply as resources contract. Aid cuts, emerging and untenably ongoing conflicts from South Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond, and the increasing marginalization, criminalization, and exclusion of vulnerable or made-vulnerable groups have widened gaps in access to essential care. Accelerating climate and biodiversity crises are worsening extreme weather, food insecurity, disease outbreaks, mental health, social instability, and more—placing immense pressure on already fragile or remote health systems.
Like many health and humanitarian nonprofits, SeeChange faces growing constraints in raising multi-year, needs-based charitable funds: donor participation in Canada is at historic lows, making it increasingly difficult to raise sustainable funds for our work, as is the case for many organizations. These challenges have been compounded by increasingly restrictive U.S. policies, sudden aid cuts that disrupt programs, and federal global health and humanitarian funding reductions in Canada, affecting domestic and global health and climate action. Although some funders are shifting toward supporting locally led organizations and programs—a necessary and welcome trend—the transition remains uneven.
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