Doctor Mark Ottenweller has worked for many years doing a vast array of benevolent, charity, and non-profit work. His cooperative work to make a difference on the world stages have garnered much attention including project features on international news media such as CNN, ABC News, NBC News (USA), Reuters, TF-1 (French), SABC (South Africa), ZDF (German), BNN (Netherlands), CBC (Canada), Boston Globe, LA Times, USA Today, and Vogue Magazine. As a part of the HOPE team that presented President Nelson Mandela with the HOPE Unity Awards, he has been in the presence of many leaders including hosting Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Oprah Winfrey, Graca Machel, and others in visits to Soweto.
As Director of Development for Africa, he worked with the Africa team to help 47,000 little children with early childhood development in 4 African countries. As Global AIDS Coordinator/ Director of Development for Africa, he organized support for 172,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa with assistance from Coca Cola, USAID, CDC, Shell Oil, AusAid, and other donors. In his relief and recovery work in the Haiti Earthquake catastrophe, he organized Hope Worldwide Haiti, after the earthquake in January 2010, to provide 619,896 meals, 3,845 medical consultations, and jobs for 919 local residents. They also have built a school for 524 young Haitians in Bodarie. In his relief and recovery work in Ivory Coast Civil War, he assisted Hope Worldwide Ivory Coast with relief and recovery work following civil war there in 2011. Hope Worldwide provided jobs training for 281 local residents, small businesses were developed for 156 people, and jobs for 339 volunteers there. As Co-Executive Director for the ANCHOR Program (Africa Network of Children Orphaned and at Risk,) received $8,100,000 from USAID to Expand Care and Support for 145,000 orphans in Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Botswana, Zambia and South Africa, in Partnership with Rotary Fellowship For Fighting AIDS, Emory School of Public Health, Coca Cola Africa and International AIDS Trust. As Program Director for Abstinence and Behavior Change for Youth, – under USAID, received $8,000,000 to Educate 550,000 Youth in Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Botswana, and South Africa. And, as Former Director of Africa, HOPE worldwide, with 17 volunteer AIDS projects in 13 African countries (Botswana, Gaborone – Cameroon, Douala – DR Congo, Kinshasa – Ghana, Accra – o Ivory Coast, Abidjan – Kenya, Nairobi – Namibia, Windhoek – Nigeria, Lagos – Somaliland, Hargeisa – South Africa, Cape Town – South Africa, Durban – South Africa, Johannesburg – South Africa, Port Elizabeth – South Africa, Umtata – Uganda, Kampala – Zambia, Lusaka – Zimbabwe, Harare.) His accomplishments are too much too name but here are a few more below.
