Community Partners International

Our 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 our work: We listen to local leaders and through training and mentoring, we build local capacity to serve communities where mothers, children and families are deprived of essential health services. Our long-term partnerships develop the trust and experience vital to positive lasting change, and our extensive network encompasses diverse ethnicities, religions and languages.

After decades of isolation and devastating repression, Myanmar is undergoing extraordinary and heartening change. Yet there is continuing community strife, deep poverty and a lack of health care for the vast majority.

Community Partners International strongly affirms our deep commitment to the universal humanitarian principles of impartiality and independence, and the right to life with dignity regardless of race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or membership in a particular social group or political opinion.

Because of Myanmar’s long – and still unresolved ‑ history of civil conflict, CPI also urges the region’s adherence to the principles of medical neutrality and the Geneva conventions, calling for the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and non-refoulement — the protection of refugees from being returned to places where their lives or freedoms could be threatened.