PROGRAMS

Africa AHEAD have programmes in rural and urban contexts

Nkhamanga Water Users Association starts CHCs in Malawi

The 2022 online training is being attended by 20 participants from the Nyamanga Water Users Association in Malawi, funded by Transform International, with support from Niagra-on-the-lake Rotary Club. The participants are now in the implementation phase of the project. Having been trained in the theory of the CHC Approach in 2021, they then developed a …

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Solar powered boreholes deliver water to 15 remote villages

The Majoni/Zhou water point was a diesel powered borehole broken for more than 3 years, which resulted in the community drinking unsafe water from the nearby river. They had neither the capital nor the expertise to get the engine repaired. Thanks to the combined efforts of two short emergency projects, supported by OXFAM and ACF …

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Community Health and Empowerment Clubs in Kenya

The Covid pandemic had just begun in 2019 when we were contacted by a small group of philanthropists from Denver, Colorado in USA,  who were starting up an ambitious new NGO to develop the Kisii region of Kenya where they had already an income generating project going on, but where they were searching to add …

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Start up of CHCs in South Sudan, Malawi and Kenya through our e-learning course

The challenge has always been when starting a CHC to provide the extensive Toolkit of Visual aids which are needed to enable the 24 topics to be done in a participatory manner. Using tried and tested PHAST activities such as ‘3 pile sorting,’ ‘Ranking’ and ‘Blocking the Route’ we had to teach people online to …

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Planning a Community Health Club online course

After the great response and feedback from our first Introductory Zoom training we launched Module 2; Planning a CHC –  providing a step-by-step method of crafting a successful CHC Project. For this session participants had to have an actual project site for a Community Health Club. Module 2 which ran from from 10th November twice …

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Launching Virtual Training for the CHC Model

Africa AHEAD Association conducted the  first online training using Zoom,  for the replication and scaling up of the Community Health Club Model into 8 new countries through training and mentoring of partners requesting to start CHC projects. Training consisted of three Modules with AAA certification for those completing all three modules. Module 1: 2nd October …

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Putting the ‘D’ for Development in A.H.E.A.D

Africa AHEAD has long been advocating for long term sustainable development of Communities, in a 4 stage process: starting with  health and hygiene, continuing to Stage 2 – the application of this knowledge for safe water and sanitation. Because CHCs are often started within the WASH Sector,  and despite the SDG call for more integrated …

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