ZIMBABWE | Association for Applied Health Education And Development

Comparing CHC to CLTS

The debate about the pros and cons of different strategies that are being used to mobilise communities and induce them to change their behaviour rolls on and this well reserached paper can add some factual information to the discussion. It summarises the outputs of latrine construction in three different projects areas in Zimbabwe. The CHC [...]

International visitors from OXFAM visit Masvingo

01 December, 2011

Report by Morgan Hayiza

ZimAHEAD Project Officer.

Oxfam staff from UK, Germany, Scotland and Zimbabwe had an opportunity to visit the Community Health Clubs and rehabilitated water points in Masvingo Rural District of Zimbabwe, where ZimAHEAD implemented an OFDA funded Water and Sanitation Project through OXFAM GB. The project ended [...]

Urban Waste management in Zim

December, 2011.

City Authorities and Residents Joining Up

by Regis Matimati – Director of Programmes, ZimAHEAD

ZimAHEAD has observed that city councils and residents can jointly own up to the waste menace if they sit together to identify and plan on ways to solve the sanitation challenge. What needs to be done first [...]

2011 National Sanitation Week Commemorations Proposed for Masvingo

19th July, 2011. To Masvingo Municipality Dear Sir, Its been a while since ZimAHEAD left Masvingo and I know the CHCs are still fired up and functional in waste management and public health promotion. I don’t know if you are aware that Zimbabwe Sanitation Week will be commemorated in your city owing to your outstanding [...]

Im not Nobody Now

IRC has recently selected the story that we submitted as one of the winners in their competition for articles that inspire good development.

It is the moving story of Mrs Toriro and stands as our epitaph for a courageous and hard working women whom we have selected as a role model for other Community Health [...]

Letter from the field

Andrew Muringaniza, Programme Manager

Regis Matimati, Director of Programmes

14th March, 2011

By Regis Matimati

Masvingo

‘The events lined up for us were pregnant with palpable emotion as communities felt they had been given their lives back by the provision of water.’

Once again we saw how our officers are [...]

WASH Response to Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe

Masvingo Community Health CLlub Project Goal:

To reduce the vulnerability of at-risk rural populations in rural Masvingo to Water and Sanitation Related Disease (WSRD) transmission.

Objectives:

1) To increase levels of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) knowledge, attitudes and practices through Community Health Clubs and School Health Clubs so as to decrease vulnerability to WSRD [...]

The Pride of the Poor: Garikai, Masvingo

turning a dust bowl into a place of pride: recyled coke tins are used to border the veg gardens in Garikai

Five years ago during the infamous Marimbatsvina Campaign, that eradicated most informal settlement in Zimbabwe, many shack dwellers of Masvingo Town found themselves homeless. Some of those displaced were finally [...]

Masvingo is the latest town to be cleaned up by CHCs

ERF-UNOCHA through Oxfam, is providing community capacity building in cholera mitigation. Based on the success in Mutare and Chiredzi, ZimAHEAD has been contracted to provide yet another Community Health Club programme in high density urban areas of Masvingo Town. All the 10 wards under the Masvingo City Council Authority are being covered by 9 Community [...]

Cholera Mitigation Case Study

Community Health Clubs were started in Mutare, Zimbabwe in an effort to combat the rapid spread of Cholera in Zimbabwe in 2009. This is an inspiring account of how well mobilised women were able to role back this deadly threat and prevent any daths from cholera in this high risk area. The paper presented at [...]