Our Vision
To empower women in particular so that, as leaders in a fully functional Community, they are able to effectively control all preventable diseases and substantially alleviate poverty in their areas and raise living standards for their family.
Our Mission
To enable Government Ministries, Agencies, and NGOs to roll out sustainable, integrated development programmes at scale through the Community Health Club model of development to alleviate poverty, inequity, ignorance and disease.
Our ‘5×5’ Strategy
To achieve this mission we employ Community health Clubs to Our with the objective of reducing the 5 most critical preventable diseases for 5 million people in 5 countries at less than US$5 per person in the next 5 years.
For a powerpoint presentation of the 5×5 Strategy please click here
TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF OUR PROJECTS
In Zimbabwe we are currently working in 5 districts mainly on emergency programmes in response to the Cholera Outbreak and the reparation to livelihoods after Cycone Idai in March 2019
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Our Featured Stories
The Corona virus was first identified on the New Year’s Eve of 2020, and within 3 months there are now nearly quarter of a million cases with around 10,000 deaths world-wide. The ‘Old World’ has stopped working. Rich nations are now in lock-down, shutting up shops, restaurants, bars and leisure centres while all citizens are…
Reported in the Standard Daily Newpaper, Zimbabwe 22nd December, 2019 Social commentary:with Fidelity Mhlanga Thirty-four-year-old Catherine Makwecheredze could not contain her joy. She was a reciepient of a new house, courtsey of Africa AHEAD, a non-governmental organisation that has come to the rescue of victims of Cyclone Idai, who were rendered homeless by the vicious…
Chistian Aid partnered with Africa AHEAD with the objective of alleviating human suffering in the wake of the disaster inflicted by Cyclone Idai in March 2019, which tore through Chipinge district leaving trail of destruction on the roads and bridges making it difficult to access goods and services. Efforts by the District Civil Protection Unit…
Africa AHEAD in collaboration with SKAT Foundation of Switzerland (funded by Drink & Donate) have been supporting the Environmental Health Department of the MoHCC in Zimbabwe to run CHCs in Makoni District. The project provided water quality management and trained water point masons and artisans to enable the protection of family wells. In total during 2019,…
With ongoing support through Unicef, Africa AHEAD is now working with 50 different church groups around the capital Harare, to spread the message of cholera prevention through handwashing with soap and general hygiene. Given that the Community Health Club approach uses the same tactic as religion to organise its members, it seems appropriate that we…
The Kilgina Super Wash Community Health Club in Papua New Guinea is proving to be every bit as active as the CHCs in Africa. Women enjoy doing projects together to improve their environment. They have assigned every Thursdays for the community and house clean up. They are starting a floower planting project along the roads…
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.
