When ASEA established the Advancing Life foundation in 2015, it set out to
tackle the chronic world ills that perpetuate suffering. Partnering with
experienced global organizations for long-term impact, the Foundation’s
generous donors and volunteer expeditions carry out its ambitious yet
simple mission in countries and communities hungry to advance. 2015

Disaster Relief: Nepal Earthquake – This contribution helps with
rebuilding as well as creating tarp schools that help protect children
from being trafficked out of their home villages.

2016

Mexico Expedition

The foundation embarks on its first humanitarian expedition, joining
forces with CHOICE in Mexico. Expeditioners built water cisterns, chicken
coops, and outdoor ovens.

Associate Donations

Associates at North America Envision Conference in Dallas assemble and
donate 1,000 hygiene kits for the GRACE foundation. At ASEA’s convention,
associates donate $25,000 for earthquake relief in Ecuador. In
Guadalajara, associates at Envision donate baby kits VIFAC during Mexico
Envision Conference.

Employee Donations

270 volunteer hours at The Road Home, with a clothing drive, donation
sorting, and meals. 400 pounds of food donated to Utah Food Bank. $7,000
worth of goods and services from corporate employees to Utah Food Bank.
Volunteer work for DCFS Utah, Children’s Justice Center, The Road Home,
and Salvation Army.

2017

Inta-Kara Vocational Center

Two separate groups of volunteers embark on the first CHOICE Humanitarian
expeditions to Ecuador to begin the construction on perimeter fencing for
the Inta-Kara Vocational Center.

Operation Underground Railroad

• Partnership is announced
• Rescue mission in Peru saves 10 victims, imprisons three traffickers
• Two law enforcement canines are to be trained
• Aftercare shelter aid
• ASEA associates and executives serve at an O.U.R. aftercare shelter in
  Cartagena, Colombia

Donations

• Disaster relief in Puerto Rico and Texas
• Corporate employees hold a donation drive for blankets, coats, hats,
  and gloves for the homeless in Utah

2018

Operation Underground Railroad

• Associates participate in an education campaign during the Super Bowl
  to raise awareness about human trafficking.
• Advancing Life’s first law enforcement dog, Banner, graduates from
  training and begins work in Montgomery, Alabama.
• Funding is sent to Malaysia to begin renovation and construction of an
  Internet Crimes Against Children Center.
• An O.U.R. mission in Guatemala results in 10 rescues and the arrest of
  a corrupt judge.
• An exploratory mission in Nepal results in six rescues and the
  confiscation of two lists with names of 23 additional victims.

Inta-Kara Vocational Center

Two expeditions to Ecuador with a total of 45 volunteers begin work on the
first school building.

Have an Impact/Make a Difference

• Corporate employees volunteer at community gardens and tie blankets.
• Food drive for Utah Food Pantry.

2019

Operation Underground Railroad

• Two law enforcement dogs, Alf and Champ, are trained
• Operational expenses at the Royal Thai Police ICAC Center are covered
• Contribution to renovations at the Thailand Victim Receiving Center
  and Office made, lease for 2019 paid
• Thailand ICAC reports 117 victims rescued and 119 arrests made

Vision Cambodia

• Partnership announced
• 38 wells donated

Disaster Relief

• Philippines earthquake

Have an Impact/Make a Difference Days

• Blood drive
• Building of bunk beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace
• Serving at a food pantry
• 200 school kits assembled and donated to the City of Joy in Cancun,
  Mexico
• Battalion Buddies and paracord bracelets assembled and donated to
  Operation Gratitude

IntaKara Vocational Center

• 58 expeditioners over two Ecuador expeditions continue work on the
  school.
• The first class of welders begins training; 16 students become the
  first graduates

2020

Vision Cambodia

Two expeditions with 46 total expeditioners go to Siem Reap

• 25 wells donated
• 12 gardens donated
• 212 newborn kits donated
• 33 additional wells donated
• Bathing rooms at a medical clinic funded

Disaster and Pandemic Relief

• Australia bush fires
• COVID 19 field hospitals in Cremona, Italy, and in New York City
• Feed America – 1.1 million total meals provided
• Doctors without Borders
• Rise & Rebuild – two nutrition centers built in the Philippines
• Partnering with Global Foodbanking Network to provide needed funding
  in Central America and the Southeast Asia region.

2021

Clean Water

• Vision Cambodia – 58 wells donated
• Funded the build out of a wet lab at the Navajo Technical University
  in Kirtland, New Mexico in partnership with Dig Deep
• Funded the build out of a well at an aftercare shelter in Kenya.

Disaster and Pandemic Relief

• Partnered with Global Foodbanking Network to provide needed funding
  for food banks in Central America and Southeast Asia region.
• Partnered with Feeding America to provided needed funding for 600,000
  meals
• Partnered with the US Hunger Project to provide 40,000 meals
• Partnered with the Salvation Army to provide disaster relief for
  Kentucky, Louisville County flooding – March 2021
• Partnered with the Salvation Army to provide disaster relief for
  Germany flooding – August 2021
• Partnered with Hope for Haiti to provide disaster relief for the
  earthquake in Haiti
• Partnered with Feeding America to provide meals in New Orleans after
  Hurricane Ida

Operation Underground Railroad

• Funded a rescue mission in the Middle East to free 30 women from
  prison who had been trafficked.
• Helped to fund the build out of a mobile forensic lab.
• Funded the training of K-9 Tor who is now part of the Derry Township
  in Pennsylvania

Clean Water

• 46 wells installed in Cambodia
• 6 wells in Ghana
• 5 wells in Sierra Leon
• Provided funding for micro loans to Who Lives to build more wells in
  Malawi

Education

• Inauguration of Inta Kara Vocational Center in Ecuador
• 448 students graduated from Inta Kara
• Started construction on a 6-classroom school in Bolgatanga, Ghana
  serving 500 children

Human trafficking

• 10 medical clinics in each state: California, Florida , Georgia, Ohio
  and Texas trained on the signs of Human Trafficking and how to help
  the victims

Disaster relief & Food insecurites

• Disaster relief efforts supported in Queensland, Ukraine, Kentucky,
  Florida
• Provided meals in Hawaii, Las Vegas, and Kentucky
• 80 blankets made and donate to Utah Refugee Connection.

Clean Water

• Provided 200 water filtration systems in Haiti to prevent Cholera
• Donated a village drill to Mombasa Kenya
• 50 wells donated in Cambodia
• 10 boreholes dug in Africa

Education

• Funded the building of kindergarten and jr. high school in Northern
  Ghana
• Provided funding to expand the Carol Zulu school in Zambia
• Funded 2 Sparks Reading Program schools in Guatemala
• Funded 1 computer lab in Guatemala

Human trafficking

• Funded the training of victim relief dog for Orem police dept.

Disaster relief & Food insecurites

• Funding for 20,000 meals in Maui after the fire
• Funded additional 20 dormitory rooms for young women in Bangledesh to
  stay in school

Clean Water

• 83 water wells in Cambodia + 1 water distillation system
• 10 Mechanized wells in Ghana

Education

• Funded the operational expenses at the Carol Zulu School in Zambia
• Funding the Boys Empowerment program in Zambia
• Began building the primary school in Chiana, Ghana
• Funded Economic Development projects to teach business skills in Ecuador and Kenya

Human Trafficking

• In collaboration with the Exodus Road, operational expenses were funded in the Philippines, where 37 survivors were freed, 10 arrests were made, and 595 youth and parents were educated on the issue.
• Expanded the dormitory in Khulna, Bangladesh, for the women in the Speak Up for the Poor program.
• Rescued 10 individuals in Ghana with Engage Now Africa.

Disaster Relief & Food Insecurity

• Supported Community Vitalization programs with WHOlives in Kenya
• Funding of 150,000 meals in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton in Florida