Africa AHEAD’s response to the Covid-19 in Africa
Africa AHEAD 5 x 5 Challenge aims to start up at least 100 CHCs in 5 countries in the next 5 years to empower at least 5000 women to prevent 5 killer diseases at under US$5 per annum. Join us and fight Covid through Community Heath Clubs.
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TRAINING: We provide on line training to enable local partners to understand the CHC approach, to craft viable plan of action, and conduct training in Community Health Clubs using the participatory approach which ensures high levels of community response.
We provide those organisations strained through Africa AHEAD the opportunity to register their CHC on our online CHC registry www.chcahead.org as well as monitor activites with our own tailor made tool for community evaluation.
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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‘When CHCs are well established they become a super highway for other development initiatives’ is the response of the Executive Director of Africa AHEAD Zim when he learned of the great efforts by many CHCs in Zimbabwe, which are now running substantial enterprises, and managing to weather the Covid storm. For example the Community Based …
Africa AHEAD, like many organisations in this time of the Covid pandemic, is trying to continue activities despite the difficulty of travel. In order to adapt our standard training in the Community Health Club approach we launched an online course using Zoom, and were encouraged by the response. In total there were 49 registered participants, …
Borehole rehabilitation during Village Pump Mechanics training at Firoumwe water point (ward 10) in Gutu District in Zimbabwe is one of 36 boreholes being repaired in the programme to build resilience in communities affected by Cylone Idai. This has been described as an “AA life changer” by Firoumwe community members who are now able to …
Africa AHEAD Association is pleased to announce our first online training using Zoom, for the replication and scaling up of the Community Health Club Model into 8 new countries through training and mentoring of partners requesting to start CHC projects. Training will take place in three Modules with participants moving progressively from Module 1. for …
Africa AHEAD has long been advocating for long term sustainable development of Communities, in a 4 stage process: starting with health and hygiene, continuing to Stage 2 – the application of this knowledge for safe water and sanitation. Because CHCs are often started within the WASH Sector, and despite the SDG call for more integrated …
Extract from Unicef WASH Newsletter August 2020 For full report click here ‘COVID-19 has significantly changed the course and way of life in Zimbabwe and continues to impact communities affected by Tropical Cyclone Idai that caused significant loss of life, injury, and displacement in the Eastern Highlands. The ongoing drought within Zimbabwe affected water supplies …