SSHCO was established in the United States as a 501(c)3 organization with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2009. The SSHCO board members began raising funds and awareness of building a health clinic in Maar. After reaching out to generous donors and communities with influential friends from North Sudan, Egypt, and Kuwait, SSHCO was able to construct an $800,000 clinic. SSHCO officially began working in South Sudan in 2012.

Since its creation, the health clinic has provided new levels of health care to the people of Maar and the surrounding area for the first time. The clinic has provided hundreds of people with a better life. The focus is maternal and child healthcare in a facility where mothers deliver their babies safely with proper medicines and equipment on hand.

The Maar clinic is a Primary Health Care Center (PHCC). Currently, SSHCO is still running its Maar Clinic in Jonglei State, and on September 23, 2020, SSHCO was one of the first to provide health services to the Mangalla displacement camp of 120,000 in Central Equatoria State (CES). SSHCO has provided health services to the host communities (Bari and Mundari) and the IDPs from Jonglei State. At one time, SSHCO was managing three mobile clinics with tents donated by UNICEF in response to the situation in Mangalla.