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Community Partners International emerged out of a trip through the villages of Burma/Myanmar, with the executive directors of Foundation for the People of Burma and the Global Health Access Program, and a donor for both organizations traveling together to visit local partners and program sites.

The trio quickly discovered synergy and a common vision: Over meals and dusty back roads, they shared experiences, their rich knowledge of the region and ideas for approaching the vast community and health needs in Burma/Myanmar.

Thanks to everyone who supported CPI's Campaign 2012! Your gifts will help bring essential health services to women, children and families in Burma who otherwise do without — as well as key skills training and resources to our local partners. 2012 was an extraordinary and heartening year for CPI, for our local partners, for everyone who has worked and waited for Burma/Myanmar to begin emerging from decades of isolation and devastating civil strife.

In 1989, a few months after leaving Burma/Myanmar, Dr. Cynthia Maung and a small group of students opened a makeshift medical clinic in a rickety wooden house on the dusty outskirts of Mae Sot, Thailand. The clinic had virtually no supplies, no money, no one who spoke Thai and (except for Dr. Cynthia) no staff formally trained in medicine.

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