CHAMPS

Children and Mothers Partnership Program

Through CMMB’s signature program, Children and Mothers Partnerships (CHAMPS), we develop long-term health solutions for women, children, and their communities.

CMMB supports CHAMPS communities across Haiti, Peru, South Sudan, and Zambia. Each community faces its own unique health challenges. That’s why we work with community health workers and local governments to understand these diverse barriers to health. Our CHAMPS interventions include treatment and prevention of disease, promotion of quality and accessible maternal, newborn, and child healthcare services, and strengthened access to clean water and sanitation.

CMMB remains committed to the women and children of these communities, and CHAMPS is already impacting real, lifesaving change.

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CHAMPS Communities

Despite the importance of women’s and children’s health, maternal and infant mortality rates remain unacceptably high in Haiti, Kenya, Peru, South Sudan, and Zambia.
Ezo, South Sudan
Ezo is a remote town with little modern infrastructure on South Sudan's border with Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic. South Sudan has one the world's highest maternal mortality rates.
Yambio, South Sudan
Yambio suffers from poverty, severe malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases. Safe water is lacking, and regional insecurity has exacerbated conditions. At the same time local residents were fleeing conflict in the county, thousands arrived from neighboring nations, fleeing violence there.
Nzara, South Sudan
CMMB actively supports St. Therese Hospital in Nzara, maintaining and improving its compound and ensuring availability of trained staff as well as of medications and equipment. In the community, we support clean water, child protection, and the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Mwandi, Zambia
Mwandi, which means “plenty of fish,” is a poor village in Zambia's Western Province, caught between tradition and the contemporary world.
Mutomo, Kenya
The village of Mutomo is in a semi-arid area of Kenya. Most of the 17,000 inhabitants live on less than US$1.25 a day.
Trujillo, Peru
Trujillo, on Peru's northern coast, is the nation's second most populous city, with a population of 890,000. CMMB's CHAMPS site is in Trujillo's La Esperanza slum, one of the city's seven districts.
Huancayo, Peru
CMMB maintains an innovative CHAMPS site in the Chilca district of Huancayo, Peru, the capital of Junín Region, in the nation's central highlands.
Côtes-de-Fer, Haiti
The modern Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan Center for Health, which CMMB built and opened in March 2017, now serves more than 50,000 residents who once lacked access to quality healthcare. It is providing safe deliveries and surgeries, antenatal and postnatal care, pharmacy services, and more.

A meticulously crafted theory of change helps CHAMPS focus on critical gaps to protect mothers and children. Achieving each objective follows defined pathways—each one requiring dozens of steps focused on prevention and treatment, health-system strengthening, and economic empowerment.

We want at-risk women, children, and their communities to succeed. CHAMPS makes a long-term commitment to each community to effect sustainable change.

Maternal & Child Health
Health Systems Strengthening
Economic Empowerment
Maternal & Child Health

We believe that every life is precious.

In the most remote corners of South Sudan, CHAMPS can mean the difference between life and death for mothers like Letasha experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Medical volunteer Dr. Rachael Consoli performed Letasha's first ultrasound. With the doctor's help, she safely delivered a healthy baby. Letasha says, “Without her, we both could have died.”

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Dr. Rachael Consoli with a mother and her baby
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Health Systems Strengthening

We believe in healthcare as a human right.

Lucy has been a CMMB community health worker in Zambia for more than 15 years. She was inspired to join by the committed volunteers who supported her when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Lucy now works with our CHAMPS initiative and says, “I’m giving back to the community, and the respect I’ve earned is amazing. On a busy day, I'll attend to more than 60 children."

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Economic Empowerment

We believe in human dignity for all.

Estapha says, "A steady income has changed my life." After graduating from a CHAMPS mother's club, Estapha received a loan of US$35 from a related neighborhood savings group and started selling candy and snacks near a local gathering place where men play dominoes while children watch. She can now afford better food for her family. And she is now saving for the future.

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Be part of a movement that effectively and efficiently improves the health and well-being of marginalized women, children, and their communities. Support the transformative role of women and the potential for children to shape everyone’s future. Together we can make sustainable change and improve lives.
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