Creating Hope International’s (CHI) mission is to provide education and health assistance to the people in the world with the greatest needs.

CHI works at the grass roots level, responding to community needs, fostering community participation, and empowering people through culturally sensitive education and training.

Creating Hope International is a Michigan based non-profit organization with 501(c)3 status. CHI was founded in 1982 and was incorporated as a Michigan non-profit corporation in April 1996.

CHI works to:

• Raise the educational, health, social and economic levels of people throughout the world who are in need, particularly women and children

• Provide learning opportunities for underprivileged people, assistance to relieve their suffering, and resources to enable them to improve their lives

• Assist distressed communities in developing and sustaining education and health programs to meet their needs and re-build their communities

• Foster and promote world-wide concern for oppressed people throughout the world

CHI focuses primarily on providing technical and financial assistance to those in need, with the goal of empowering the recipients to ultimately be able to meet their own needs.

In the past, CHI has been involved in such projects as:

• Providing technical assistance and training to Mexican villagers in building latrines, as well as public, maternal, and child health services
• Training teachers in Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Raising funds to support refugees in Iran and Pakistan
• Raising funds to support girls schools in refugee camps in Pakistan
• Teaching Tibetan community leaders in India to write grant proposals to raise money for building projects, including a medical clinic, a drinking water well, and scholarships for children
• Designing and providing educational materials for teacher trainers.
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Organization

CHI is run by a six-member Board of Directors. They are:

Betsy Amin-Arsala
Dr. Parvin Boroumand
Toc Dunlap
Annette Vitale-Salajanu
Sakena Yacoobi
Dr. Janet Yamamoto

The two officers of CHI, Dr. Sakena Yacoobi and Toc Dunlap, have been working with educational projects, and specifically Afghan educational projects, for over 35 years. These two officers are responsible for the administrative and project work of CHI, and coordinate all projects and fund-raising.

CHI depends extensively on our countless volunteers here in the United States, as well as those involved abroad. These volunteers are responsible for many of the important accomplishments of CHI, and we are grateful for their continued efforts with administrative work, training, proposal writing and fund-raising.

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