Africa AHEAD (Applied Health Education & Development)
Africa AHEAD’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa
As a group of African Public Health Practitioners we are well qualified to help communities manage the Corona Virus pandemic as it sweeps across our continent. WHO estimates up to 44 million people in Africa could be infected in 2020-2021 if containment measures fail, and up to 190,000 could die of COVID-19. We have a tool kit of visuals aids already developed and a team of exert facilitators to assist the population through Government and other NGOs in this fight for suvival.
Africa AHEAD is heading a consortium which includes Health Povery Action and OPAD to start emergency Corona Health Clusters trained through radio broadcasts in six countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somaliland and Kenya).
Empowered women through the AHEAD Approach
Empowerment of women against all disasters: These women were in the eye of the cyclone which hit Chipinge district in Zimbabwe in March 2019. Thanks to working together in Community Health Clubs they have started a nutrition garden and can be seen here, in a time of Covid-19.
Four months after Africa AHEAD completed the programme the community organised this amateur video, full of pride in their achievement, explaining to their neighbours how they prepared the garden with fertility trenches to enrich the soil.
They want us to show the world how resilient they are. Please support us to support them further.
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Like so many communities in Zimbabwe, the people’s need for safe water has been ignored for decades as Zimbabwe’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. Boreholes are seldom maintained or rehabilitated. People have to resort, like the elephants to digging for water below the sands. But this is not safe for human conspumption, as it is…
Report by Morgan Haiza, Project Officer 20th July 2020 … Trained Health Promotion Volunteers are doing a splendid job by ensuring that communities are educated on how to prevent and control the pandemic in their neighbourhoods. This is being done door to door and in smaller groups (Corona Health clusters) of 15 households. Key messages …
When the COVID-19 virus reached Zimbabwe in March 2020, UNICEF responded by supporting a number of emergency initiatives including the funding of Africa AHEAD to lead the Preparedness and Response Project with a local NGO based in Matebeleland called Moriti Oa Sechaba. Activities started this month in 6 districts , including Plumtree, 100 kms south...
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Africa AHEAD now has 3 projects running at the same time in Bulawayo Metropolitan to assist government deal with the Covid 19 emergency. With a city council that is proactive and which has given Africa AHEAD a coordinating role for other NGO activities in Bulawayo, we are able to maximize our support for the city….
Africa AHEAD’s Engineer Ngoni Chirindo briefing Executive Director Regis Matimati on the works being done at the Mutare Provincial Hospital Covid 19 Isolation Centre. 9th July 2020. Photo and report by Morgan Haiza. Africa AHEAD is working with Action Against Hunger, funded by ECHO to contribute to the national effort to combat the spread of…