Founded | 2004 |
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Founder | Sera Bonds |
Type | Non-governmental organization |
Focus | Maternal and neonatal health |
Location | United States |
Areas Served |
Sri Lanka, Tibet, New Orleans,Sudan,
Tanzania, Afghanistan, Israel, Haiti, Syria, Texas, |
Method | Providing quality healthcare to communities by partnering with local organizations |
Website | cohintl.org |
Tanzania, Afghanistan, Israel, Haiti, Syria, Texas,
Oklahoma, Jordan, Philippines, Nicaragua,
Circle of Health International, known as COHI for short, is a US based non-governmental organization founded in 2004 with the mission to work with women and their communities with a community based approach in times of crisis. As of 2016, COHI has responded to eighteen humanitarian emergencies and served over three million women globally. COHI has worked with midwives and public health professionals in Sri Lanka, Louisiana, Tibet, Tanzania, Israel, the Philippines, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Oklahoma, Nicaragua, Sudan, Haiti, and Afghanistan.
As of 2016 COHI supports maternal and child health clinics in Haiti, midwives in an indigenous women's forum in Nicaragua, midwifery students and sexual health advocates in Nepal, a clinic for refugees in the Rio Grande Valley on the Mexico/US border, and works with survivors of human trafficking globally. COHI is also engaged in Austin's social enterprise community through a program, known as the COHI Cloth Network, to address women's poverty through income generation initiatives.