AMREF HEALTH AFRICA

To promote lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable and remote communities, working primarily with women and girls.

to promote lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable and remote communities, working primarily with women and girls

Amref Health Africa

to promote lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable and remote communities, working primarily with women and girls

to promote lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable and remote communities, working primarily with women and girls

To promote lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable communities.

Empowering Women with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania

In line with our efforts to make our communications more participatory, we would like to give some of the beneficiaries of the Comic Relief-funded WASH programme the opportunity to tell their own ....more

In line with our efforts to make our communications more participatory, we would like to give some of the beneficiaries of the Comic Relief-funded WASH programme the opportunity to tell their own stories. We will work with a professional photographer to train key community members in basic photography skills (through a kick-off workshop and ongoing tailored support), enabling them to document their daily lives and the work they do to improve their communities’ health. This would:• Allow Amref to tell the story of this project, and capture its impact, in a new and compelling way.• Enable us to make a strong case for the link between WASH and improvements in health.

Fistula survivors, Tanzania

Maternal and child health in Uganda

The slums of Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa are very congested. Rubbish is rarely collected, and there are few proper toilets. Many people, especially children have diarrhoea.This project plans ....more

The slums of Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa are very congested. Rubbish is rarely collected, and there are few proper toilets. Many people, especially children have diarrhoea.This project plans to train health workers and volunteers, and construct communal toilets and showers. They will be run by local people who will charge small fees to people who use them. Women who collect and recycle waste as a business will also be trained and given proper equipment.As a result the overall environment in these slums should improve; people will become healthier, and some of the poorest slum dwellers will be able to increase their incomes.

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Community Education on Health in Turkana, Kenya

This project, based in four areas of Kenya, aims to improve health for women and children. The project will improve community knowledge and practices, within the context of strong traditional ....more

This project, based in four areas of Kenya, aims to improve health for women and children. The project will improve community knowledge and practices, within the context of strong traditional beliefs, and increase the availability of services to nomadic communities. Project activities will include community sensitisation meetings, health education to mothers and the wider community, training health workers, training traditional birth attendants and providing emergency obstetric care at health centres.

This project, based in north Turkana in Kenya, aims to improve health for women and children among settled and nomadic communities across four districts.