CHCs in Masvingo thatt were formed 12 years ago (2010) in Masvingo City have evolved into Community Based Organizations involved in waste management in which they collect discarded plastics which they sell to a local company that makes plastic bags and poly pipes….
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 …
The dreaded Covid lock down which has caused so much disruption has prompted a revolution in communication across Africa…. we found using Zoom we could train online and could connect with people across the world to enable CHCs to startup to help fight the pandemic whilst we sat at home on Zoom. It was an …
Gutu District in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe was one of the 9 districts which were heavily hit by the Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019, resulting in most water and sanitation infrastructure being damaged. An estimated population of 270 000 in total, including 129 600 were affected by flooding and other damages caused by Cyclone. The …
Building resilience in Gutu District after Cyclone Idai Read More »
Joseph Katabarwa and Fausca Uwingabire (Africa AHEAD Country Directors) report on a CBEHHP training in Rwanda in December 2018 The Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 focuses on safely managed equitable sanitation, hygiene for all and end open defecation focuses on the need for increasing the proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing …
Training Community Health Workers supervisors in Rwanda Read More »
SDG 3 can be met in Community Health Clubs as we are able to prevent all diaseases which depend on safe hygiene, water and sanitation. The disease which are addressed in the Community Health Club Training include: Diarrhoea, Cholera, Malaria, ARI (Acute Respiratory Infections), Bilharzia, Worms, Skin Diseases, Eye diseases, HIV/AIDS, Malnutrition Epidemics can be …
The Founders Juliet and Anthony Waterkeyn went on their annual tour of the programme in Zimbabwe to see how the team were doing in Makoni District where the SKAT funded project was revamping CHCs and installing Rope & Washer pumps for a self supply water project. However whilst the technology was disappointing the CHC methodology …
Juliet meets Juliet – an insight into the sustainability of good hygiene Read More »
Field Trip to Makoni District by CEO 6th December 2018 SKAT is supporting the introduction of locally fabricated Rope & Washer pumps in Makoni District and Africa AHEAD has been working with the communities to install around 60 of these new pumps, replacing the conventional upgraded family well which for the past 30 years has …
A major failing in the current WASH programme in Haiti today is that although ‘safe’ drinking water may be coming out of the tap, hand-pump or Bio San Filter outlet, re-contamination is clearly still a huge challenge, because of poor handling and storage of drinking water so that the water is not ‘safe’ at all by the …
CEO of Africa AHEAD delighted by the CHCs in Haiti Read More »
At the annual UNC conference which attracts the great and the good in the WASH sector annually in North Carolina for a week of sharing experience in the WASH Sector, the most interesting people I met were two ordinary non academics who were to me the most extraordinary people in the conference…. Jude Francois and Marie …
Haitian CHCs: the magic of solidarity – how making wine brings a community together! Read More »
INVESTIGATION ON CHC APPROACH A case-control study and a cross-sectional study have been conducted in Rwanda and DRC respectively during the period of 2014-2015. The purpose was to investigate on the potential contribution of the CHC approaches to reduce hygiene related diseases and malnutrition (environmental and practice related). A case control study in Rwanda – …
A presentation by Julius Othello at the 3rd CBEHPP Workshop 26th May 2017 World Vision is a huge Christian NGO which has been in Rwanda since the genocide in 1994 and was now working in 22 out of 30 districts with an annual budget of 4.3 million dollars in the previous year. Would they be …
In the face of the El Nino induced drought in Sub Saharan Africa, communities have to raise their vigilance against WASH related diseases. Action Contra la Faim has invited Africa AHEAD to partner once again to use the CHC approach to mitigate against emergencies, so as to avoid a cholera outbreak such as the one …
Emergency Humanitarian Response to the El Nino in Zimbabwe Read More »
