1. Life
A Better Life
Love
Hope

2. Circle of Health International (COHI) is a global nonprofit organization that
works with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to
ensure access to quality reproductive, maternal, and newborn care.

3. A Letter From Our Director

4. A Letter From Our Director

5. Conceived and formed in 2004, COHI has served more
than one million women and children in nine countries.
COHI provides volunteer medical personnel to ensure safe deliveries for women
in around the world. Photo by ______

6. TIBET: Within Reach
Within Reach: Safe Deliveries for
Rural Tibetan Women
Trained 50 village doctors and midwives in emergency
obstetric care in Nagchu province (7 hours north of
Lhasa, at 19000 feet) in midwifery. Hired a local public
health trainer (staff of TPAF) who organized the
trainings.
Created a safe motherhood curriculum that was adopted
and implemented by the Chinese government
Thankas made by local artists used as culturally
appropriate and relevant educational materials (hygiene,
nutrition, washing hands, hemorrhage)
Worked with Tibetan poverty alleviation fund (TPAF),
one of the few organizations in tibet staffed by locals

7. WEST BANK: Midwives
for Peace
● Mythloon birth center in West Bank
● Waterbirth training
● Ina May Gaskin
● Red Crescent Hospital
● Sustainability - has led to other projects and
accomplishments
● Skin-to-skin project: created materials in Hebrew
and Arabic, gone to an event in Poland and
spoke because they are Israelis and Palestinians
working together
● Google skin-to-skin project for videos
These midwives are working on how to collaborate more effectively in Israel and the West Bank. Photo by _____

8. Post Tsunami Sri Lanka: Loving
What's Left
Loving What's Left
● We did the one and only reproductive
health needs assessment in the
emergency phase
● Raised $80,000 that was in the field and
accessible to our local partners within a
week; gave cash grants to our local
partner organizations - Home for
Human Rights
● Brought a team of 8 volunteer clinicians
and public health professionals for 10
days who worked in the camps
delivering babies, doing prenatals,
postpartums
● Trained over 500 red cross volunteers
in trauma self-care

9. Tanzania: Teens out of
trouble
● Partnered with FLEMAFA, teen pregnancy one
Tanzania, 2006-2007 (look up province name)
hour outside of Daar
● did a needs assessment
● organized, hosted and funded 2 conferences
showcasing local organizers (midwives, local
govt officials, nurses working in local clinics) and
local work; these people developed a strategic
plan for how to reduce teen pregnancy; PTSD
and childbirth and neonatal resuscitation training
at the conferences
● developed and implemented a young men’s only
training about their role in stopping violence
against women
● gave $25,000 to build a birth center (don’t know
if it was built)
● sent a group of medical students, a couple
groups of public health students, a group of
clinicians
These midwives are working on how to collaborate more effectively in Israel and the West Bank. Photo by _____

10. Sudan: Helping
Hands
Sudan, 2008
Association of Sudanese nurses, trained in
emergency obstetric care

11. Building Up Midwives
Post-Earthquake Haiti, 2010-2011
● Local partners: Midwives for Haiti, Haitian Christian Mission (HCM), UNFPA (not sure of relationship)
● Trained midwives with HCM who staffed the birth and still work there
● Fonds Parisien, built a birth center, stocked it
● Stocked a pharmacy
● solar suitcases
● Three half-day training sessions with 15 male clinic staff on GBV and reproductive health to equip
these men as advocates prepared to discuss these issues openly with other men in the community

12. Afghanistan: Delivering Innovation
Afghanistan, 2011-2012
● Afghan Midwives
Association is our partner
● Pilot a birth center in Kabul
we are raising $25,000 to
give for this project
● Telemedicine program
stemming out of the prenatal
clinic in Kabul to increase
access to specialty care

13. Jordan: Safe Haven, A School for
Women
Jordan/Syria, 2012-2013

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18. 2004-2012 Funders

19. Financial Overview

20. Growth, Income and Expenses Pie
Charts

21. 2013-2018 Strategic Plan

22. Board and Staff
Cristin Marona Sera Bonds, MPH Circle of Health International
Chairman of the Board Founder, Executive Director 1905 Paramount Avenue
Boston, MA, USA Austin, TX, USA Austin, TX, USA 78703
Cailin Burke Michelle Jones, MBA Tel: 347-712-1721
Board Member Director of Programs Email: info@cohintl.org
Brooklyn, NY, USA Austin, TX, USA
Lyla Garzouzi Zeina Jamaleddine, MPH
Board Member Response Coordinator, Jordan/Syria
Canada Austin, TX, USA
Kelly Winter, MPH Meena Lenn, MPH
Board Member Social Media Director
San Francisco, CA, USA Doha, Qatar
Nancy Barry
Administrative Manager
Austin, TX, USA
Circle of Health International is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization.