Our Goals
Encourage Youth Leadership:
Equipping young people with the frameworks, professional, and educational support needed to lead credible health-promoting initiatives locally and beyond.
transform Ideas into impact:
Empowering aspiring healthcare leaders to translate passion into measurable impact through evidence-based research, scalable design, and field implementation.
advance health equity:
Addressing barriers to care by prioritizing underserved populations and promoting equitable, community-informed solutions. Delivering essential health aid to underserved communities.
Promote sustainable change:
Leveraging the visionary insights and fresh perspectives of young people to sustainably address historic public health challenges.
Our Programs
From deploying health-promoting project toolkits to hosting virtual events, we are engaging on several fronts to cultivate sustainable transformation worldwide.
Student-led Projects
Empowering the youth to design and implement individual or chapter-based health-promoting projects that address their communities’ needs.
#CareForAll
Mobilizing members to showcase their work and raise awareness about health inequities through a shared social media hashtag.
Health Education
Providing access to educational materials on the foundations of public health to inform youth-led health equity initiatives.
Professional Development
Facilitating our members' access to insightful fireside chats, workshops, leadership resources, service hours, and networking opportunities.
Founded in 2025, CareForAll empowers youth to become compassionate, community-engaged healthcare leaders by connecting education with real-world impact, providing resources to start local initiatives, and leading larger movements in the pursuit of health equity.
Meet the Founding Team
Heman Bekele
Founder & President
Heman is an accessible healthcare researcher and activist. He was named TIME Magazine's "Kid of the Year" in 2024 and was previously awarded the title of "America's Top Young Scientist". He founded CareForAll to help bring more young people together under the shared goal of promoting equitable, accessible, and high-quality healthcare for all.
Will Jordan
Co-Founder & Vice President
Will attends the Oslo International School in Norway and is passionate about global healthcare advocacy. He has been involved in fundraising efforts that have raised $50,000+ to cancer research initiatives.
Olivia Greenaway
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Olivia is a senior and MPH candidate attending Columbia University. She is a former research assistant for the NBA’s second opinion psychiatrist and former board member of Michelle Obama’s Partnership For a Healthier America.
Jay Patel
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Jay is a freshman attending Harvard University. He has led multiple non-profit organizations, health education initiatives, and health policy research on both community and global scales, impacting over 100,000 individuals.
Get Involved with
Careforall
Join CareForAll to engage in hands-on learning, develop professional skills, and contribute to sustainable solutions that promote health across global communities. Complete the form to access next steps on how to participate independently, start, or join a chapter.
