Global Communities (originally Cooperative Housing Foundation)

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Overview

Since 1952, CHF International has worked in more than 100 countries worldwide. Currently we are operating about 90 programs in more than 30 countries. Each day, CHF International transforms promise into progress.

Mission

CHF International's mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions.

Program

CHF International is successful because it brings together the people, organizations and resources necessary to ensure steady, sustainable change. Our programs ensure that individuals, families and communities: participate in the decisions that impact their lives; learn to work together to solve their own problems; are provided with the tools and skills needed to escape from the bonds of poverty; form productive partnerships that will sustain the cycle of progress; and develop confidence in their ability to create a brighter, more prosperous future for themselves and their communities.

Impact

Selected highlights from CHF’s worldwide programs: providing job skills training to 21,000 internally displaced men and women in Colombia; improving access to water, electricity, and basic financial services for 25,000 households in over 100 slum communities in Gujarat, India; training refugees to produce, sell, and use 10,800 fuel-efficient stoves in Darfur, Sudan, benefiting approximately 21,200 families; empowering more than 2,300 women in Romania through microcredit loans to improve their homes and expand their businesses; conducting job-creation and infrastructure development programs in the West Bank and Gaza to generate 1.8 million person-days of employment.

CEO

Michael E. Doyle

Board

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Michael E. Doyle, President and CEO
Dr. Judith Hermanson, Senior Vice President

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Don H. McCreary, Chair
Chris Sale, Vice Chair
Michael E. Doyle, President/CEO
Caroline E. Blakely, Esq., Secretary
Gordon E. Lindquist, Treasurer

TRUSTEES
Jane P. Madden
Amy Margerum
The Honorable Walter E. Stadtler
Ronald Stegall
Wallace P. Warfield, Ph.D.
David A. Weiss
Sunia Zaterman

TRUSTEES EMERITUS
Samuel E. Bunker

Countries

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen

Contact

8601 Georgia Ave, Suite 800
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (866) 7792-CHF
https://www.globalcommunities.org
EIN: 52-0846183


Basic Needs

Countries and Regions

Environment

Animals in Darfur

Care for one animal

Cooperative Housing Foundation

Regular price $25.00

Your gift of $25 will allow CHF to provide mobile veterinary care including shots and disease prevention for the people of Darfur. Included in this care are sheep, chickens, donkeys, and other livestock that provide valuable income for refugees and displaced persons. This ensures that families have food security during the off-season by allowing them to yield milk, wool or even help with fieldwork.


Give Clean Water

Well for 500 villagers

Cooperative Housing Foundation

Regular price $200.00

Your gift of $200 will help build a well that can provide sustainable access to clean water for rural farmers to use for personal consumption, for their animals' consumption, and for their farming activities. In addition, improved water usage mitigates the environmental crises that cause chronic drought and access to clean drinking water empowers the women and children who are otherwise forced to carry water...


Supply Farmers

Seeds for 10 families

Cooperative Housing Foundation

Regular price $20.00

Your gift of $20 will allow CHF to provide 10 families with enough seeds to begin household farming activities throughout the world. This ensures that families have food security during the off-season by allowing them to grow fruits and vegetables that they can both consume and sell for additional income