Community Partners International is dedicated to serving the most vulnerable people in Myanmar’s remote villages and underserved townships where there is little to no access to health care or public health education. Their global network partners with 26 local organizations, collaborating on community-based health projects and providing health skills training, resources and technical support.
Whether tackling large-scale malaria control initiatives, providing safe births for mothers in remote villages or training the next generation of Myanmar's public health leaders, everything they do is based on partnership and driven by local organizations.
Community Partners International is a consortium of dedicated professionals with decades of hands-on experience, who share a deep commitment to working with and for the people of Myanmar.
Their mission is to work with local partners to improve health and education, led by and for the people of Myanmar.
Partnership with local organizations is the core of their work: They listen to local leaders and through training and mentoring, they build local capacity to serve communities where mothers, children and families are deprived of essential health services. Their long-term partnerships develop the trust and experience vital to positive lasting change, and their extensive network encompasses diverse ethnicities, religions and languages.
For the people of Myanmar, CPI’s vision is that all communities, families and people have fair and open access to the supports, systems and resources needed to thrive, and to meet the World Health Organization’s definition of “health”: A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Their goal is to be a recognized and trusted leader in expanding access to quality services for local communities, and for generating the resources, capacity, coordination and information necessary for our partners and the people of Myanmar to meet their own health, learning and community needs.
They focus on evidence-based public health and clinical care initiatives through innovative training and partnership with local health clinics, backpack medics and village-based health workers. They currently partner with 26 community-based organizations on infectious disease, reproductive health, trauma care, health systems strengthening, childhood immunizations and child nutrition.
A HEALTHY MYANMAR
They believe that healthy families build strong communities. Their support of community-based public health and clinical care in Myanmar and along its borders reaches 930,000 people — many of them displaced and living in unstable conflict-affected zones with no other health care available.
They focus on evidence-based public health and clinical care initiatives through innovative training and partnership with local health clinics, backpack medics and village-based health workers. Using a train-the-trainers model, they have partnered with more than 60 community-based organizations on malaria, tuberculosis, filariasis (elephantiasis), reproductive health, trauma care, health systems strengthening, childhood immunizations and child nutrition in a country where 1 in 3 children are malnourished.
Through their field offices in Myanmar and on the Thailand-Myanmar border, they provide training, technical support and resources to help their partners implement a broad array of initiatives, including clean births and emergency obstetric care for mothers living in remote villages; malaria screening, treatment and prevention for villagers living in a country with the second highest number of malaria deaths in Southeast Asia; trauma management in a country with one of the highest number of landmine injuries and deaths in the world; Vitamin A distribution to prevent blindness and help children survive and thrive; health systems strengthening to improve community-based infrastructure and assessment of health needs and services.
