Communities are the future of humanitarian action

We support communities leading health crisis responses

SeeChange is a social purpose organization that works globally to support communities lead their own health crisis response. Our community-led, action- and impact-oriented approach, CommunityFirst, seeks to create meaningful and lasting change and contribute to decolonizing the humanitarian response system. Our projects range from partnering with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic to address the tuberculosis crisis, co-creating COVID-19 roadmaps and disaster response plans with communities around the world to launching CommunityFirst pilot projects in Sierra Leone, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru.

CommunityFirst Solutions

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Systems Change & Advocacy

CommunityFirst; Decolonizing Health Crisis Response

CommunityFirst is a mindset and a methodology

Decoloniality, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Is it time for a new DEI mindset? We believe it is. Truly impactful and sustainable DEI requires us to level up our game by adding a D to DEI — and that D is for Decoloniality.

View our D-DEI Charter

Learning and Unlearning

Listening deeply to communities and drawing out unconscious bias.

Amplification and Reflexivity

Creating spaces that centre communities and reflecting on how to improve.

Accountability and Decarbonization

Committing to actionable steps and reducing our carbon footprint

Our Impact

We work with communities as they mobilize their assets and become agents of their own response. This community-led action is what will inform and drive systems change.

Communities co-creating their own solutions

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Organizations pilot our CommunityFirst approach

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Demonstrating new narratives on decolonization

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News & Views

Explore this section to see how communities are driving change in health crisis response, and how we are learning from them

Job: Community-centered impact finance coordinator

SeeChange is developing the concept of a CommunityFirst Perpetual Fund (CFPF), a revolving fund that helps communities and organizations access sustainable capital to respond to and prevent humanitarian health crises. We have just completed phase 1 of the project which consisted of doing a literature review and SWOT analysis of existing relevant models.

November 1, 2023

Report: Historic Healing Journey of Inuit TB Sanatorium Survivors

In cooperation with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., SeeChange brought a group of Inuit TB sanatorium survivors and youths to Hamilton, Ontario in July, where more than 1,200 Inuit were treated for tuberculosis in the 1950s and 60s, often suffering from abuse and isolation. The goal of the historic trip was two-fold: to bring healing and closure to survivors and to educate younger Inuit and the Canadian public about this little-known chapter of Indigenous history.

September 18, 2023

SeeChange Spotlight Event

Join us for a debate on decolonizing health in Canada, with a spotlight on Inuit experiences and solutions, on September 29, 2023, in Montreal. Speakers include McGill professor and pediatrician Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain, author of 'Fighting for a Hand to Hold - Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada', acclaimed Inuk singer and mental health advocate Beatrice Deer who will also be performing at the event; Naomi Tatty, Inuk nurse and SeeChange staff and SeeChange CEO and McGill professor of practice Rachel Kiddel-Monroe.

September 19, 2023

Sierra Leone: Circle of Girls

The Circle of Girls project in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone helps adolescent girls better understand sexual and reproductive health, as well as their rights.

SeeChange Initiative

Bringing Healing and Closure for TB Sanatorium Survivors

SeeChange Initiative, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and the Art Gallery of Hamilton invite you to join us for an event to learn more about the little-known history of Inuit tuberculosis sanatorium survivors, and the intergenerational trauma it has caused.

The CommunityFirst Approach: Reorienting the COVID-19 pandemic response in Indigenous communities through empowerment, autonomy and ownership for health and wellbeing

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We acknowledge that we are acting within a colonial system that has long served to oppress and marginalize First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. SeeChange stands in solidarity with Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and around the world in their struggle for their right to live on and maintain a connection to their lands, express their culture, practice their customs, speak and protect their languages, and eat their traditional foods

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