Africa AHEAD (Applied Health Education & Development)
We empower communities by working with local government to effect positive change.
WHO ARE WE?
Africa AHEAD is a registered British Charity devoted to empowering women and alleviating poverty mainly in developing countries in Africa.
WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
To contribute to the international Sustainable Development Goals to end Poverty by 2030.
How? Click here for a presentation
WHAT IS OUR METHOD?
We develop functional communities which can manage their own development through a Community Health Club.
WHO ARE OUR MAIN BENEFICIARIES?
Women are our main focus but we encourage both men and women to join Community Health Clubs. We count the whole family as direct beneficiaries as they all benefit from improved health due to increased hygiene in the home.
HOW ARE WE FUNDED?
Almost all of our funds have come from either direct grants from major Agencies or as an implementing partner with other International Organisations. However, we are now fundraising directly from the public.
To adopt a Community Health Club click here.
Click here to support our Charity walk to raise funds to build the AHEAD Resource Centre in Zimbabwe
TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF OUR PROJECTS
In Rwanda where 150 Community Health Clubs were started between 2014-2017 transforming lives of 5000 people
OUR WORK BY SECTOR
Our Featured Stories
Joseph Katabarwa and Fausca Uwingabire (Africa AHEAD Country Directors) report on a CBEHHP training in Rwanda in December 2018 The Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 focuses on safely managed equitable sanitation, hygiene for all and end open defecation focuses on the need for increasing the proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing…
Dr Aaron Tanner of Transform International has just started a CHC Pilot project in Madan Area, Jiwaka, Westen Highlands Papua New Guinea (PNG) – the first time this approach has been used to our knowledge in this part of the world. “When I was asked to assist the Madan Community Transformation Centre, a small community based organisation, to…
Africa AHEAD is combining with the World Bank to host a session at the Africa San Conference in Cape Town in March 2019 entitled Enhancing sanitation and hygiene investments for human development impact in Africa The Water Global Practice of the World Bank Group has invested heavily in understanding the impact of sanitation and…
Picking from the success of the initial cholera response project, Africa AHEAD was contracted by UNICEF and our first Program Cooperation Agreement (PCA) was signed to continue with the activities of the first project for 6 months until end of May 2019. The organization re-engaged the hygiene promoters, mobilized our vehicles and added more staff:…
Zimbabwe AHEAD is all set to go ahead with the building of an AHEAD Resource Centre (ARC) to ensure the long term sustainability of the organisation and enable many of the skills which we have been desseminating to the community to be permenantly demonstrated at a easily accessible venue close to Harare. Co-founders Anthony and …
By Regis Matimati ( Country Director, Zimbabwe) Between October and November 2018, Africa AHEAD partnered ACF and lend a helping hand to the City of Harare in the fight against cholera in Harare. UNICEF chipped in by providing soap for Africa AHEAD to promote handwashing at the public WASH facilities in the Harare CBD. The…
WHERE HAVE WE WORKED?
We have worked in 11 countries since 1995, improving standards of living standards of the poor in rural and urban areas.
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE WE REACHED?
We have improved the living standard of 2.2 million people, of which 1,1 million are in Zimbabwe.
