Pact in Myanmar

to improve their incomes while also funding public needs such as medicine, electricity, schools and roads. In 2012 alone, Pact improved access to health care for nearly 1 million people, a significant accomplishment in a country that historically has spent among the least money on health care of any nation in the world. As part of its USAID-funded Shae Thot (“Way Forward”) project, Pact works with United Kingdom-based Marie Stopes International to offer mobile medical clinics in especially remote villages. A hallmark of Pact’s work in Myanmar is sustainability. Years after Pact leaves a village, the community institutions it helped form continue to thrive.