Mr Tablespoon Chirambo and Ivanne Pablo from Development Technologies Training Centre in Mzuzu Malawi visited Zimbabwe on a look and learn tour of CHCs. Africa AHEAD team of Board Chair Dr Juliet Waterkeyn , Executive Director Regis Matimati and MEAL Manager Witness Nkomo took the visiting Malawi trio to Mwenezi and Chiredzi to see the …
Africa AHEAD has in the past two years provided online training for three Rotary Funded projects in Africa. With Rotary membership being based on a ‘Club’ dynamic there is clearly an obvious link with Africa AHEAD’s work through Community Health Clubs. It was therefore a great pleasure to be invited to speak to the WaSH-RAG-group …
Project Manager Tablespoon Chirambo has shown how it is possible to be trained online and transfer the training into reality on the ground. Each week, the team meets at his office and connects and are able to work through the participatory activity guided by Africa AHEAD Training Director, Juliet Waterkeyn. They have all been issued …
Tablespoon and team are flying with CHCs in Malawi Read More »
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 …
Nkhamanga Water Users Association starts CHCs in Malawi Read More »
Tropical Storm Ana hit the southern part of Malawi in Late January 2022. Helen Timoffee, Director Health Lives International writes, ‘The whole Southern area is under water. Bridges and roads are destroyed, people are stranded on the tarmac as it is the only area not under water. AID agencies are not able to get to …
Tropical Strom Ana derails Community Health Clubs in Malawi Read More »
Helen Timofee, Malawi Water Project April, 2022 A project that the Malawi Water Project undertook over this past year was the establishment of Community Health Clubs. These cost effective clubs can empower villagers to not only take charge of the health of their village but show people how they can help themselves by working together …
To increase the vaccinated coverage in Masvingo, Bulawayo and Manicaland, Africa AHEAD has been conducting radio broadcasts with messages to encourage people to get vaccinated, and phone in programmes to enable listeners to have their concerns answered. We also conducted a ‘barrier analysis’ to establish the most important enablers that are likely to foster appropriate …
5 million reached over radio to promote high vaccination coverage Read More »
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….
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 …
Solar powered boreholes deliver water to 15 remote villages Read More »
Reaching out through online training The single best thing that has happened in the past few months is the relative speed with which three partners were able to start up Community Health Clubs in Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan. Teams from each country huddled over lap tops in remote locations taking part in our online …
We were delighted to have sufficient response to justify another Introductory Course on the CHC Approach which was held from 26th – 30th April 2021. This was the first time we used the online Learning Platform for the materials and presentation and participants could follow the presentation on their own screen and access all course …
Global Health Connections attended all four modules of our first Zoom training (Oct 2020 – Feb, 2021) and we are delighted to see how they have been able to immediately put their training into practice, as well as rapidly complete a base line survey and produce visual summaries of the situation in their CHC village, …
Helen Timoffee, Director of the Malawi Water Project March 31st. 2021 Even though our organization, The Malawi Water Project, already provided training on proper sanitation and hygiene to interested villagers, we found the training was not sufficient to achieve the behaviour change needed to improve the standard of health in families which would result in …
Malawi Water Project’s assessment of our Zoom training Read More »
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 …
Start up of CHCs in South Sudan, Malawi and Kenya through our e-learning course Read More »
Emboldened by cracking the Zoom technology in Module 1 and 2, we decided to see if we could get participants trained online to use our monitoring system as well. This was ambitious as the training is extremely ‘techi’ and required huge patience as everyone struggled for the first time to follow detailed instructions from our …
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 …
I am Gladys Chibharo, born in 1979, married with three children, and my spouse is disabled (blind). This is the story of how I have managed to support my family and made a career through Africa AHEAD. In 2002 I was just a voluntary village health worker (VHW) of ward 31 Buhera District, Manicaland Province, …
As the Zimbabwe Idai Response project (ZIRP)is progressing well in Ward 13, Gutu, with a lot of changes now starting to be visible in the community, through the formation of Community Health Clubs and the training of the SAG (Savings and Income Generation) groups in the villages. One of these changes are being noted in a …
