In Kenya, Community Health Volunteers Help Blunting the Spread of COVID-19 in Impoverished Communities

The organization Village Hope Core International is a community development organization with a mission to empower communities in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa to eradicate poverty and improve family health. Promoting public health and education, through income generation and capacity building programs, reaching over 300,000 villagers in the poorest areas of Kenya.

During the outbreak of the pandemic, the organization trained, evaluated, and supervised 800 community health volunteers in partnership with the Kenya Ministry of Health. The trained community health workers conducted over 200,000 educational home visits in the first 11 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. HopeCore digitally empowers 200 of these community health workers with smartphones and a data collection and training app.

According to the organization, the Community Health strategy is an approach through which households and communities strengthen their role in their own health by increasing their knowledge, skills, and participation. At the heart of this strategy are community health workers and community members trained to render certain basic health services to the communities they come from. 

Learn more about this inspiring initiative here:
https://www.villagehopecore.org/

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https://giving.villagehopecore.org/give/265362/#!/donation/checkout