Our Partner Organizations
Learn about the organizations we have partnered with to ensure our projects are context-appropriate, resource-conscious, and effective.
Open Channel Projects
From the Open Channel Projects website...​
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Open Channel Projects is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health and access to healthcare worldwide. We believe everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, no matter where they live.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to expand emergency care capacity and preventative care in areas of critical need. We collaborate with local organizations that are best positioned to create meaningful change and address the specific health needs of their community.
Ethnic Health System Strengthening Group (EHSSG)
From the EHSSG website...
"The Health system of Burma (Myanmar) has been fragmented with geographically differentiated service providers parallel to the ministry of health of the government, to serve vulnerable and marginalized population, as a consequence of decades-long armed conflicts. Ethnic Health Organizations (EHOs) have been established by various Ethnic Groups in Burma to serve the conflict affected populations in the border areas of Burma.
Ethnic Health Systems Strengthening Group (EHSSG) is a network of ethnic and community based health organizations who are working together to strengthen health systems in Eastern Burma, and to advocate for equitable and essential primary health services for vulnerable and displaced people throughout Burma. EHSSG members provide comprehensive health program in their local areas through a collaborative approach with local, national, and international agencies.
EHSSG members are working towards an improved decentralized health system, where the work of existing ethnic and community based health organizations is accredited and an integral part of a Federal Health System."
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Mae Tao Clinic (MTC)
MTC Mission Statement:
"MTC is a community-based organization (CBO) that provides and advocates for an equitable essential health system, education and protection for vulnerable and displaced people living in the Thai-Burma border area and Eastern Burma.
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MTC addresses the needs and human rights of these people through comprehensive programs and a collaboration approach with local, national, international, and government bodies."
Civil Health and Development Network (CHDN) Karenni State
From the CHDN page on EHSSG.org...
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"Civil Health Development Network (CHDN) is a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Karenni State. It was established in August 2012 by the health sector of the six organizations that signed ceasefires in Karenni State. Prior to the formation of CHDN, each political group had already been implementing health activities in hard to reach villages by mobilizing community health workers (CHWs) and auxiliary midwives (AMWs).
The six organizations that formed CHDN are:
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KnMHC – Karenni Mobile Health Committee
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KNPLF – Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front
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KNLP – Kayan New Land Party
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KNSO – Karenni National Solidarity Organization
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KNPDP – Karenni National Peace and Development Party
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KNG – Kayan National Guard"
Coastal Maine Global Health Fellowship (CMGHF)
The Coastal Maine Global Health Fellowship is an innovative training program for emergency medicine physicians that couples the experience of rural emergency medicine in mid-coast Maine with the needs of global emergency care along the Thailand-Burma border.
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The goal of the collaboration between the CMGHF, the Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), and the Myanmar Emergency Care Support Network is to have a multi-directional exchange of knowledge in order to engage in research and programming aimed to expand context-appropriate, evidenced-based, emergency care capacity at MTC and the Burma-Thai border region.
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