The mission of the Community Hope Project (CHP) is to create conditions that foster peace, justice, health, connection, opportunity, hope, and human flourishing. Our first major partnership has been with the residents of Hill Cut, a small urban village in Sierra Leone. The whole project stemmed from a pen pal relationship between two sets of girls a half a world apart. It has grown into a wonderful, sustaining friendship and collaboration that has transformed a whole community, and changed us all. CHP partners with communities to build physical infrastructure. We bring start-up resources (donations, microloans, educational scholarships), the energy and enthusiasm of international volunteers, and combine them with the sweat equity, expertise, strategies, and materials of local community members. The work of the Community Hope Project (CHP) is both local and international; we believe that efforts to promote health, hope, peace, justice and opportunity across the world have to take place in multiple locations. They must tap into the energy, experience, and diverse resources of people from all over the world.