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ISIS Group
ISIS Group is a multinational business-for-purpose based in Sydney, Australia. The Group is comprised of ISIS Asia Pacific, a corporate advisory business, and ISIS Foundation, an international development organisation. The organisation was founded in Bermuda in 1998 by New Zealand-born business women Audette Exel.

Name
The name, ISIS Group, comes from Isis, the Egyptian goddess of children and motherhood, and who also said to be the friend of slaves and the downtrodden.

History
ISIS Group was founded in 1998 in Bermuda by Exel, who at the time had just finished a two-year position as the chairwoman of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Soon after formation, ISIS Foundation began to conduct development research in Humla, Nepal, and also developed connections with Kiwoko Hospital in the war-torn Luwero Triangle, Uganda.

By 2000, ISIS Foundation had built Yalbang School in Humla, and a neonatal intensive care unit in Kiwoko Hospital.

In 2004, ISIS Foundation discovered 136 trafficked children in an orphanage in Nepal, and begun to negotiate with the human traffickers for their custody. Custody was granted in 2006.

In 2007, ISIS Foundation moved its headquarters to Sydney, Australia, and ISIS Asia Pacific Pty Limited became set up as a "business-for-purpose" in Australia.

ISIS Foundation (USA) was set up and received 501(c) status in 2011.

Business for Purpose model
ISIS Group operates a business-for-purpose model. The entirety of the profits made by ISIS Asia Pacific are directed towards covering the core support costs of ISIS Foundation, allowing donor money to flow straight to the Foundation's project sites in Uganda and Nepal.

Humla
ISIS Foundation began operations in Humla, a remote region in the north-west of Nepal, in 1998. Their primary focus is on sustainable education, healthcare, and community infrastructure. The Foundation built a school on the grounds of an old monastery, which now educates 215 children from the region.

In 2004, ISIS Foundation was alerted to more than 100 children being held by traffickers in Kathmandu, in conditions of squalor. Over the next two years ISIS Foundation worked with the Nepalese Government and Police to secure custody of the children from the traffickers. This was achieved in 2006, and the children were slowly returned to their families, with the Foundation maintaining support through education and healthcare.

Kiwoko Hospital
ISIS Foundation began working with Kiwoko Hospital in 1998. The hospital is located in the Nakaseke District, 80 kilometres northwest of Kampala. They have established a neonatal intensive care unit in the hospital, and provide support for community healthcare and children living with HIV/AIDS.