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HIT Humanitarian is a 501(c)3 charitable organization established in 2009 by Heritage Internet Technologies (HIT), a Utah-based IT/web-hosting company (formerly known as Heritage Web Solutions). It was formed in response to donations being made by the company and its employees to support humanitarian efforts around the globe. The organization's primary purpose is to provide funding and resources to communities and organizations in effort to reduce malnutrition and disease, develop clean-water and clean-energy sources, build educational and health-care infrastructure, and encourage self-sustaining practices. HIT Humanitarian also provides deeply discounted web design services for non-profit, charitable, and other organizations that offer beneficial services to their communities. In 2009, HIT donated $27,778.25 through employee donations and company-matched contributions. The donations have been used to support partnerships HIT has made with non-profit and charitable organizations that operate in Nepal and Haiti. As part of its efforts to provide web development services to qualifying organizations, HIT Humanitarian has also developed two programs, HIT Heart and HIT Angels. == Adopting a Nepalese Village == In 2008, HIT became part of Utah-based (Humanitarian's ) http://www.choicehumanitarian.org Corporate Village Partnership and began providing money and resources to assist in ongoing projects in the Nepalese village of Puranokot.〔CHOICE Humanitarian (http://choicenepal.blogspot.com/2008/10/corporate-village-partnership.html)〕 HIT co-founder Brad Stone established a connection with the village while traveling to Nepal with members of CHOICE Humanitarian to assist in a village school-building project. Stone said the experience instilled in him a desire to help in a way that villagers could gain tools and knowledge to improve their community. “I learned I wasn't there for (),” he said. “I was there to support those villagers. It's helped me to get a greater appreciation and outlook. It's not about giving handouts, it's about helping villagers learn and grow.” Since it began working with the Nepalese village, HIT has worked with CHOICE Humanitarian to assist in building a school, a health center, digging irrigation canals for clean water and building simple biogas digesters to provide clean-burning fuel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HIT Humanitarian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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