Check out these first-hand accounts of how we are creating lasting health change in partnership with communities in Africa. These stories will amaze and inspire you!
Shopping in Safety
Community health volunteers (CHVs), when they are well trained, play an integral role in health education in Malawi. Walking around the paths leading to Undi village, is a [...]
A Canadian Win: COVID-19 Response Improves Maternal and Child Health Services in Ethiopia
Han Health Centre is located in Bahir Dar, Amhara regional state in Ethiopia. The centre provides a variety of health care services for a population of more than [...]
Radio, an unspoken hero in COVID-19 awareness
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Amref Health Africa has engaged in a series of efforts to help the government of Ethiopia mitigate the impacts of the pandemic [...]
COVID-19 Vaccine Training for Kenyan Frontline Health Workers
As vaccines become available, the health care sector in Kenya is racing against time to immunize as many people as possible. However, this can only happen if both the [...]
The Impact of Clean Water for One Family in Malawi
23-year-old Joyce Mubisa lives in the Mwenefuvya village in Malawi, more specifically the Traditional Authority Mwabulambya in Chitipa district. She had to drop out of Yamba Community Secondary [...]
How Community Health Workers are helping out during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
What are Community Health Workers? 👩🏾⚕️👨🏾⚕️🏥 🚑 🗒 Community Health Workers are individuals from their respective community who support people through providing information on health. The majority of them [...]
A Kenyan Nurse’s COVID-19 Experience
Thousands of health workers have sacrificed their lives to be at the forefront in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and many have contracted the virus while on duty. [...]
Day in the life of a maternity nurse during COVID-19
Twenty-six-year old Dorcas Nabwire has served at the Amref Kibera Health Clinic in Kenya as an Antenatal Care nurse and a midwife for the last three years. A mother [...]
Amref-Supported Youth Volunteers Help Combat COVID-19 in Ethiopia
Selam Asefa, 27, volunteers to support youth-initiated and targeted activities in North Shoe in the Amhara regional state in Ethiopia. Currently, he is Chair of the Amref Ethiopia Youth [...]
