Aunties International is a nonprofit dedicated to improving health and educational opportunities for women and children domestically and abroad.

Aunties International looks for organizations that are already doing good work and partners with them on specific projects related to health and education. In a way, that’s kind of what an auntie does!  Aunties support the work mom is already performing. That support could be providing encouragement, offering a helping hand, filling in where mom leaves off or just adding the ‘fun’ and enrichment and all the stuff mom can’t always get away to do.

How Aunties International began:
“I started volunteering for a nonprofit clinic in Haiti the summer after the 2010 earthquake. I have no medical training, so flying to Haiti didn’t seem to be the best use of my skills.  Instead I simply asked them “What do you need?”  They responded with “birthing kits”, i.e. clean supplies to give to their expecting mothers who would most likely deliver their babies at home.  It was spring of 2011 and Mother’s Day weekend seemed like a fitting time to gather some friends and have an event to benefit these mothers in Haiti.  Our flagship project was born, no pun intended.  Over the years the event grew and people asked how they could duplicate the event within their own communities.  At the same time, more ideas were conceived to help women and children across the globe.  In 2014 planning began to create a nonprofit that would do just that.  We narrowed our focus to projects that would benefit women and children in the areas of health and education, and in 2015 we became a federally recognized 501(c)(3) public charity.” –Tammy Schluender, founder