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A small organisation doing specific things well.

Bloom Global Health is a volunteer-led Canadian non-profit based in Timmins, Ontario. We work with local organisations abroad, starting in West Africa, in the two fields our team practises: psychotherapy, and information technology and engineering.

Why we exist

Mental-health care that understands disability and neurodivergence is almost always missing where it is needed most. Alongside it, we introduce technology only where it genuinely helps: simple, information-dense devices that replace the need for books and can be repaired and maintained locally. Our focus is abroad, with partners in West Africa who tell us what is actually needed. We are based in Timmins, and may bring some of this work home in future.

We are deliberately narrow. We do not run projects we cannot staff, and we do not arrive with a plan written elsewhere. Every program is delivered with a local organisation, designed to keep running after we step back, and reported on publicly, including what did not work.

How we work

Local partners lead
Nothing is delivered without a local organisation asking for it first. We assist NGOs already working in the region so support stays culturally and contextually competent.
Built to continue without us
Equipment, documentation and training stay with the partner from day one, so a program survives our team stepping back.
Person-first, consent-first
Children appear in our photography only with written consent from a parent or guardian, and we never trade dignity for a donation.
Volunteer-led and reported on
Our clinicians and technicians volunteer their time. We publish what happened each term, what it cost, and what we would do differently.

Who we are

A registered psychotherapist, an IT lead, and a volunteer board, plus the clinicians, technicians and translators who give their terms to specific programs.

Holy N'Lobetcho
Co-founder · Registered Psychotherapist
Joshua Potvin
Remote IT
Future Member
Board Chair
Future Member
Treasurer

Questions about how we operate?

Ask the board directly, we answer governance and finance questions in full.

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