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13 September 2024

Reaching out to remote communities in Zimbabwe on two wheels

Sanele Mutsiwa, 25, smiles at her two-year-old daughter Faith at Kezi Clinic in Matobo district, Zimbabwe, where she has gone to get her child vaccinated. She holds a baby card, while Faith sits on her lap. Sanele says she owes this happy moment to her local village health worker, who supported her during pregnanc...

Integrated Outreaches positively impact Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Sanyati, Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe, Sanyati After getting vaccinated against multiple diseases such as cholera and cervical cancer and receiving extensive education on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Modeline, 10, and her group of friends felt safer and wiser as they left school for home. An integrated outreach programme by t...

Mukaradzi mining community rises above the cholera tide

In the heart of Mukaradzi Mine in Mt Darwin District, Wimbikai Nyamupfukudza, an artisanal miner, paints a stark reality of their struggles during the cholera outbreak. "Our biggest challenge was the lack of clean water," he explains, gesturing towards murky pits. At the peak of the cholera pandemic, mining commun...

Catherine: A Harare community health volunteer’s passion

Catherine has dedicated the past eight years to being a community health volunteer because she passionately believes that no one in her community should die from ignorance. Living in Glen View, a densely populated suburb east of Harare, Catherine balances her roles as a mother and provider with her commitment to v...

Outreach campaigns bring health services closer to marginalised communities

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Sihle Jubane, 43, left her plastic shack early in the morning to catch her place on the line as a team of health workers set up camp on an open ground at Killarney informal settlement, in the peri urban area of Bulawayo Metropolitan. She was checked for Blood Pressure and provided he...

Village Health Workers engage community influencers to drive demand for health services

Umguza, Zimbabwe - In a tiny office at Mbembesi rural health facility in Matabeleland North’s Umguza district, Thembinkosi Sibanda, a midwife, took stock of the numbers in the facility’s birth register. A contented smile followed. Seven deliveries from the hospital’s maternity wing for the month. Only a single hom...

22 January 2024

In Chiadzwa a community is coming together to fight Cholera

Chiadzwa, Zimbabwe-Sitting inside a UNICEF tent set up as a Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) at the Chiadzwa Clinic located in the Marange area of the Manicaland Province in eastern Zimbabwe, Tiyezi, a cholera patient (11) sighs before she smiles. “I have learnt a lot about this disease, and I have a lot to share wi...

From burden to lifetime vocation: Care groups breathe life into Zimbabwe’s most vulnerable people

Mangwe, Zimbabwe - Eight of Maria Ncube’s grandchildren made a beeline for a thatched mud round hut after washing their hands. They graciously took platefuls of a meal from homegrown crops in Zimbabwe’s rural Mangwe district. Sitting on rugs in the homestead’s sandy yard, they quickly devoured the meal - a sweet m...

CCWs spearhead child protection services in Tsholotsho

Seventy-four-year-old Margaret Nyathi has dedicated most of her adult life to caring for vulnerable children in her community, where she has turned her home into a sanctuary. Nyathi from Matabeleland North’s Tsholotsho District started as a foster parent for orphans and other vulnerable children when she was 35. S...

Apostolic sect women defy religious teachings to save their children

'I JOINED a secret base to save my children from dying. The church that I go to does not allow the vaccination of children. Apostolic Women Empowerment Trust (AWET) helped me, especially with how to care for my children. All my children received BCG, polio and measles vaccinations,” says Anna Kanyati (not her real...

Tombana Mandeya: I love serving my community

Mutasa, Zimbabwe-Tombana Mandeya says that becoming a village health worker has helped her to raise a healthy family and contribute positively to community building. Mandeya (38), a mother of four from Macheka A Village in Manicaland’s Mutasa District, has been a village health worker since 2012 after her communit...

A passion for serving hard-to-reach communities drives Nomore Rwambiwa.

Nomore Rwambiwa was motivated to become a village health worker after seeing several people in his remote community succumb to preventable diseases due to lack of access to primary health care services. Rwambiwa (44), a father of three from Gonzo village in Mashonaland East’s Chikomba District, has been traversing...