Our Mission Is Simple

We honor the ones who care — and the ones who are forgotten.

Why We Exist

Every system we’ve studied… every elder we’ve met… every woman we’ve trained… taught us one thing:

Caregiving is not just unpaid. It’s unseen.

And dignity is not just missing — it’s denied.

CHEA Institute exists to rewrite this reality.

We build pathways for women — especially immigrants, mothers, and invisible caregivers — to turn sacrifice into status, silence into scholarship, and caregiving into generational income.

The Problems We Were Born to Solve

Unpaid Caregiving

Dying Without Dignity

Millions of women care without pay, title, or value.

Dying Without Dignity

Elders die in silence, instead of stories.

Wisdom Disappearing

Sacred traditions lost to modernization.

Economic Silence

Wisdom Disappearing

Caregivers remain the poorest in the system.

what we do

📘 Caregiver to Income Pathway (U.S.)

We train immigrant and low-income women into dignified home care careers — combining cultural empathy, emotional training, and elder-centered design.

🪷 The Forgotten Wisdom Project (Cambodia)

We document rituals and care wisdom from Cambodian grandmothers and turn them into global training systems.

🎓 CHEA Fellowship Program

We fund women doing research on caregiver dignity, end-of-life, and economic liberation through care.

📊 The CHEA Dignity Report

Annual, policy-ready data that proves care is value — not cost.

what do we

Most Systems

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Pay professionals to manage care
Focus on medical cost
Treat culture as barrier
See care as burden

CHEA Institute

Train women to reclaim care
Focus on emotional dignity
Treat culture as sacred asset
We see care as legacy work

We’re not here to help the poor. We’re here to stop a woman from being erased.

To help an elder die with their story still breathing.

– The CHEA Institute

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Fund a Caregiver

Read the Dignity Report

OUR STORY

CHEA Institute, a nonprofit corporation

Tax ID: 39-2189378 | 501(c)(3) Status: Pending IRS Approval, Donations are tax-deductible upon final IRS confirmation.

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