2008-08-25 15:38:58 - Atlanta, GA - HEAL (Health Empowerment Access Links) Global, Inc., today announced the launch of its social media wellness company with a partnership with Citi and the heavyweight endorsement of global statesman, Andrew Young. HEAL Global's mission, to link people to information, services and products that lead to a lifestyle of wellness, crosses four, key facets of wellness: physical, emotional, financial and spiritual health. HEAL Global will provide access and linkages to vital content and promote supportive relationships to keep people empowered and in control of their total, personal health. HEAL Global seeks to provide solutions to consumer pain through innovative, preventive, predictive, and proactive health promotion strategies.

'We support the efforts of HEAL Global in promoting financial literacy and responsibility as a life skill,' said Dara Duguay, Citi's Director of Financial Education. Citi's Wallet Wisdom video series will be featured on the financial health channel of HEAL Global's beta social media network-HEALMYBody.net. Citi experts will provide content that taps into their long and successful history of providing

financial advice to consumers.

'We realize that people need quality information at their fingertips to enable them to make informed decisions,' continues Duguay, addressing the driving force behind the Wallet Wisdom series.

Andrew Young, former Ambassador/Atlanta Mayor and current Chairman of GoodWorks, Intl., has pledged his support of the new social media wellness company. In his welcome video featured on HEAL Global's web site Young states ''I support the goal of HEAL Global to the fullest.' As a cancer survivor, Young also provides his exclusive, healing, video testimony on HEALMyBody.net, as well as his words of wisdom on how he has avoided heart disease.

"We are deeply honored and fortunate to have the support of the world's largest bank and one of this nation's greatest public servants and revered statesman," comments social entrepreneur and HEAL Global Founder, J. Allen Zow, Sr.

'HEAL Global realizes that the current crises in healthcare and the economy as a whole have created an intense environment of pain for people and businesses,' continues Zow. 'Our success rests in an unyielding commitment to serve and empower people while staying focused on the consumer's pain. All people deserve an opportunity to have good health, such that they may realize their highest human potential. The key facets of wellness - physical, emotional, financial and spiritual health - are inextricably bound to each other, balancing on the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'

About Citi
Citi is today's pre-eminent financial services company, with some 200 million customer accounts in more than 100 countries. Based on the belief that knowledge is your greatest asset, the Citi Financial Education Program is a global, company-wide effort to identify, support and implement initiatives that help give individuals, families and communities the tools needed to make sound financial decisions. Citi's ten-year, $200 million global commitment is focused in three areas: Personal, Small Business and Institutional Financial Education. For more information, please visit www.citigroup.com.

About HEAL Global
HEAL (Health Empowerment Access Links) Global, Inc. (HG) is an early-stage wellness company whose mission is to link people to information, services and products that lead to a lifestyle of wellness spanning the four, key facets of our lives: physical, emotional, financial and spiritual health. HG's goal is to provide access and linkages that keep people empowered and in control of their total, personal health. HG's services include its unique social media division and employee assistance programs currently focused on the higher education and city/state government markets. For additional information, contact media@healglobal.com or visit www.healglobal.com.
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