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!
Training Health Workers in Kenya on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Health workers play a vital role in supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Kenya. They provide treatment, and can assist in efforts to prevent violence as well. [...]
Octavia Kakengela: Amref’s project has helped reduce mother and newborn deaths in our village
Octavia Kakengela, 38, is the in-charge health provider at the Mwasamba Dispensary in Busega District, in the Simiyu region of Tanzania. Mwasamba Dispensary is one of the facilities supported [...]
Aneles Lubagumya: New operating theatre at our hospital in Tanzania is saving lives
Aneles Lubagumya, 43, has been a nurse at Mwandoya Hospital in Meatu District, Simiyu region in Tanzania, for more than 15 years. She says that great change that has [...]
Michael Oscar: Spearheading school peer clubs for sexual and reproductive health education in Tanzania
Michael Oscar, 43, a teacher at Chenge secondary school in Bariadi, Simiyu region in Tanzania, is one of the 435 teachers trained through the Uzazi Uzima (Kiswahili for “Safe Deliveries”) [...]
Marko Maguta: Amref’s training has helped community health workers improve care in Tanzania
Marko Maguta, 44, a Community Health Worker (CHW) from Mwasamba Village at Bariadi in the Simiyu region of Tanzania, is one of the 800 CHWs trained through the Uzazi Uzima [...]
Veronica Masomeke: Talking about sexual and reproductive issues was a taboo
Veronica Masomeke, 17, is a form four student and a peer educator at Chenge Secondary School in Bariadi District in the Simiyu region in Tanzania. She is one of the [...]
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 [...]