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Join COHI in celebrating its 3rd birthday!
Happy birthday COHI, today you are three years old. It seems like ages ago since a few committed women’s health activists joined forces to ensure that women living in conflict and disaster-affected areas created COHI to be there for them, with them, championing their needs.
In 2007, you are working with a local women’s organization in drought and HIV-ravaged Tanzania bringing a delegation of health activists in September of 2007 to participate in a conference highlighting the work of your local partners, which will culminate in a summit of Mt. Kilamanjaro. You are working on a coexistence project in the Middle East that brings together Israeli and Palestinian midwives, and working with local Bedouin leaders to address gender-based violence. You are conducting a needs assessment in Sudan in order to expand women-focused programming to this emergency that claims the lives of more women every day. And of course, you are continuing to expand your band of worker elves embodying a commitment to women, health, security, and justice.
To COHI’s supporters, thank you for all that YOU have done to make COHI’s dreams of empowerment and health for conflict and disaster affected women possible. YOU are the reason that COHI’s three years of contributing to the women of Tibet, Sudan, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Louisiana were a success. May we all continue to work in partnership to connect with women around the world courageously facing war, displacement, terror, illness, and violence by ensuring that COHI is there to support them.
Thank you.
Sera Bonds, MPH
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Since your birth in 2004, you’ve trained midwives in Tibet where 97% of women give birth completely unattended. You’ve gone to the aid of the courageous women of tsunami-affected Sri Lanka by providing U.S. women’s health practitioners, trained 17 local women as epidemiological researchers, and provided more than $50,000 in direct cash aid within the first two months after the disaster. You’ve raised more than $500,000 for a local shelter in Louisiana serving women and children affected by Hurricane Katrina, and provided women’s health-focused training for the newly hired caseworkers serving these women. You’ve grown steadily in breadth and depth through your expansive and committed base of volunteers, Board members, and partners around the world.