CARE FOR PEACE
For Countries that Need Both
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Peace hangs in the balance. Ancient tribal and ethnic animosities threaten the determination of a nation struggling to become a free market economy. Health care is almost non-existent for the 50 million-plus people who live in barely-accessible rural Myanmar. And while we know we are powerless to affect age-old hostilities, what we can do is help the government show the governed that they care….to provide a place, a healing place, a meeting place, a birthing place in rural townships and villages, where basic health services are available to all, regardless of their tribal or ethnic origins.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
C4P Rural Health Center
C4P planned, designed and constructed a new steel & cement Rural Health Center in a very remote rural village in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The Center replaced a century-old wood building that had all but fallen down. The completed facility was presented to the Myanmar Ministry of Health by C4P on June 2, 2016
C4P Mobile Health Van
Purchased in early 2014, the Care for Peace Mobile Health Van was outfitted in Yangon and sent on a 3-day journey to the Kyaukphyu District Hospital in Rakhine State. A C4P medical doctor, nurse and driver commenced operations in September 2014. Visits to barely-accessible rural villages during week-days, and to the C4P Healthcare Sentana Hut on Saturdays, have continued to this day.
C4P Just-in-Time Midwife Program
Most of the land area in the Kyaukphyu District is barely accessible. Dirt roads get washed out during the monsoon season. When a woman is in labor someone from a remote village has to run or take a motorcycle to find a midwife. Often many deliveries occur before a midwife can arrive, or the village just doesn't send someone to find a midwife. Now that cell towers are being erected throughout the district, we donated a mobile phone and a motorcycle to the C4P Rural Health Center midwife so that villagers are able to call her wherever she may be, and she can ride her motorcycle to arrive just in time to help with the delivery and any potential complication that might arise.
C4P Community Development and Health Center (CDHC)
Collaboratively developed by Dr. Tin Mar Aung, C4P Country Advisor and Senior Advisor to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the prototype CDHC will be built on a site currently being prepared by our first Corporate Social Responsibility Partner, MSP/Cat, the Myanmar distributor of Caterpillar Tractor equipment. The CDHC is slated to be the template for the first 20 facilities of its type. The design is being done by Derek Parker, A.I.A., C4P Architectural Advisor, who is creating an adaptive modular facility so that each village will be able to build and operate only what they need and can pay for.
C4P Central Hub Services - Yangon
Care for Peace already has a "Virtual Hub" in Yangon, staffed by U Toe Ba Shan, C4P Country Director. We are planning on creating a central "Hub” in Yangon that will be the Support Center HQ and C4P home office once we need a hard-wall facility for management, operations and warehousing. Staffed by Myanmar nationals, the Hub will utilize internet-based technologies to manage on-going communications with each Healthy Village, and will ensure backup systems, repair equipment and maintenance staff are available either at each site, or shared among regional villages.
C4P Women Leadership and Entrepreneurship Strengthening
A village-based woman will be installed as the Executive Director of each Community Development and Health Center.
As part of the Community Development Program, village women will be given opportunities to start their own public service businesses through both micro-economic kickstart funding, and through training, mentoring and supply-chain support of their business operations. Example: "Avon-type" door-to-door sales of household goods.
As part of the Community Health Program, women will be given entrepreneurial opportunities to own their own public health service-related programs. Example: the "C4P Just-in-Time Midwife Program" currently being piloted in our C4P Rural Health Center, will give the Midwife an opportunity to sell pre-natal, birthing and post-natal "kits" to expectant mothers, along with newborn "nutrition kits"
Care Team Program Development
Care for Peace has offered to establish one "care team" that will train Rakhine citizens to assist Rohingya individuals and families in their desire to become productive citizens of Myanmar.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of remote villages served by mobile health van staff
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
C4P Rural Health Center
Context Notes
the C4P Mobile Health Van keeps serving more and more villages in the Ramree Island. The C4P Wingate Health Center and the C4P Just-in-Time Midwife Program is now serving 20 villages.
Number of rural village patients seen by mobile health van staff
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
C4P Rural Health Center
Context Notes
The C4P Mobile Health Van is home-based at the central Kyauk Phyu Hospital were most of the government health education, prevention and training staff reside
Number of patients seen in rural health clinic
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
C4P Rural Health Center
Context Notes
The C4P Wingate Health Clinic regularly sees approximately 600 patients per year. They are just beginning to record data in logs.
number of senior executive women leaders in charge of community facilities
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Context Notes
The C4P Wingate Health Clinic is home-base for our Just-in-Time Midwife Program that is helmed by one midwife, hre motorcycle and mobile telephone!
Number of healthy deliveries performed by midwife
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
C4P Just-in-Time Midwife Program
Context Notes
Estimate only.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
2018 / 2019 Goals: Complete the building, equipping and tele-connection of the prototype Rural Community Development and Health Center
In an effort to develop reliable baseline information upon which to measure and monitor the progress of the initial Care for Peace 'Healthy Community' programs, we have established ten C4P initiatives that will utilize the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a prerequisite for meeting the United Nations' 2016 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). In that regard, each MDG is matched with a Care for Peace initiative that specifically focuses on our prototype 'Healthy Community' village clients, as follows:
MDG GOAL #1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
C4P MATCHING GOALS: Manage the health needs of humans, animals and the environment to ensure beneficial relationships, and; Implement sustainable animal, agricultural and environmental programs to support village health programs
MDG GOAL #2: Achieve universal primary education
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Establish integrated health education in primary educational programs
MDG GOAL #3: Promote gender equality and empower women
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Implement C4P projects to be equally represented and managed by women
MDG GOAL #4: Reduce child mortality
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Implement newborn and child health and nutrition management programs
MDG GOAL #5: Improve maternal health
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Implement health programs for women of child-bearing Age (WCBA)
MDG GOAL #6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Integrate preventive health programs with health education and birth spacing programs
MDG GOAL #7: Ensure environmental sustainability
C4P MATCHING GOALS: Design the Mini to ensure optimum resource and waste management infrastructures, and; Design the Micro-Enterprise System to ensure sustainable animal care and crop rotation protocols
MDG GOAL #8: Develop a global partnership for development
C4P MATCHING GOAL: Provide 'open source' partnership opportunities for the villages in which we are serving
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
GENERAL – LONG-TERM
1. Utilize the United Nation's Sustainability Development Goals as our own
2. Build weather-proof community development and health education facilities
3. Build C4P Rural Health Clinics and provide C4P Mobile Health Vans
4. Develop programs to empower women and girls in rural Myanmar;
5. Develop education and training curricula, including health and wellness information;
6. Develop micro-financing and business development initiatives, including financial literacy and entrepreneurship, business planning and leadership;
7. Develop C4P mobile IT platform for specific channels including, but not limited to: preventive health; clinical delivery decision support; leadership; micro-financing; business management; agriculture; aquaculture; economic metrics; etc.
8. Provide remote communication, logistic, maintenance and surveillance support at the C4P Central Service Center (CSC) in Yangon
SPECIFIC – SHORT- AND MID-TERM
1. Establish one C4P Community Health Director (CHD) at the virtual Hub Service Center in Yangon
2. Home-base CHD at existing CSC in Yangon
3. Develop programs with assistance from our in-country partners
4. Utilize existing village-based community health workers as educators, trainers and navigators
IMMEDIATE
Complete the building, equipping and tele-connection of the prototype Rural Community Development and Health Center
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
NEW: Care for Peace recently received Myanmar official registration as an International NGO.
The Care for Peace Nonprofit Board, Advisors, along with Senior Executive Staff is comprised of some of the most respected experts in the world. At the helm are our Co-Chairmen of the Board: Dr. Donald P.K. Chan, Professor Emeritus of Orthopedic Spinal Surgery at the University of Virginia; and Dr. David Holbrook, Healthcare Venture Capitalist. Born in Yangon, Dr. Chan founded the American Scoliosis Society during his 50 years at both University of Virginia and Rochester University Medical Centers. Dr. Holbrooke has provided healthcare-related venture funding to USA firms for over 50 years.
Jeff Hardy, Founder and President, Care for Peace, has over 43 years' experience in developing healthcare facilities, systems, services and programs both in the USA and in the international arena. Mr. Hardy has provided leadership of the Care for Peace vision to develop healthcare facilities for villagers living in rural areas of Myanmar. Hla Kyi, Founder of Care for Peace-Myanmar and Regional Director, has been providing civil engineering consultation to developers of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Presidio Approach projects, and has been key facilitator of all Care for Peace development, planning and construction activities in Myanmar.
Most important is that the Care for Peace team knows that success planning and failure avoidance is all about partnerships, a shared vision and mission, a slow and steady process, and a shared passion to help remote townships and villages in Myanmar build their own facilities and their own future.
We have developed strong partnerships with the Union Government, our in-country service partners, and the village leaders in which we are working.
The USA Care for Peace team has partnered with the Ministry of Health (Cooperative Agreement signed in October, 2013), the People's Health Foundation (Memorandum of Understanding with PHF, May, 2014), the Rakhine Thahaya Association (Memorandum of Understanding with RTA, November 2014) and a multi-organizational Memorandum of Collaboration with both PHF and RTA that there will be “NO Hidden Patient" by year 2030.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
NEXT: 2018 / 2019 Goals: Complete the building, equipping and tele-connection of the prototype Rural Community Development and Health Center
1. Completed...and counting: establish long-term, trusting relationships with everyone from the Union Government, the State Government, Ministers of Union and State Health, State and District Officers and Medical Officers, Township Community Service Officers, Village elders and the community
2. Completed: donate necessary equipment, systems and facilities.
Progress: Our C4P Mobile Health Van was donated to our in-country partner, The People's Health Foundation and has served over 3,000 patients since September 1, 2014 where no healthcare services had gone before. We provided a laptop and forms for the van staff to use to log and record patient information for the first time.
Progress: Our brand new C4P Rural Health Center in Pantawpyin Village was our gift to the Ministry of Health on March 2015 and has served approximately 12 villages in the surrounding area where an 80-year old wooden clinic was falling down. We are providing tele-com / tele-video equipment and connections so that all forms of community training and education can occur between the University of Virginia Telemedicine and Global Health Centers, the Med-1 University Medical Center in Yangon, and other villages that will have similar C4P accommodations.
Progress: Our “C4P Just-in-Time Midwife" program comprises of the donation of a mobile phone and a motorcycle for the midwife in our C4P Rural Health Clinic. Previously, if a women was in labor someone from a village would run to find the midwife, and then hopefully walk with the midwife to the woman in labor. The villager's trek could often take up to 3 hours to find the midwife and once found the midwife would arrive exhausted to find that the delivery or complication had occurred. Now the midwife can be beaconed via mobile phone, hop on her dirt-bike, and arrive just in time to assist in the delivery!
Still to be accomplished:
1. Build the prototype C4P Community Development and Health Center, equip and connect via tele-com
2. Build satellite C4P Rural Health and Birthing Center in central Kyaukphyu district
3. Establish office for existing C4P Country Administrative Director, and equip with support and logistic staff for the on-going management and support of all C4P and partner facilities
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CARE FOR PEACE
Board of directorsas of 07/08/2019
David Holbrooke
AdvocatesRx
Term: 2013 - 2015
Donald Chan
Care for Peace
Term: 2016 - 2019
John Porter
SinoCare, China
David Holbrooke
AdvocatesRx
Linda Tavaszi
Marin Community Clinics
Lawrence A. Lococo
Lococo and Associates