The Earth Institute partners with Global Poverty Project for Community Health Workers

WHAT'S THE COMMITMENT?

At the Global Citizen Festival 2013, Digicel pledged to contribute USD $500,000 to support the campaign to train and deploy community health workers across Africa.

HOW DID GLOBAL CITIZENS RESPOND?

Through the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign, the support from Digicel is enabling planning workshops with sub-Saharan African governments and other partners to implement the training and deployment of community health workers. These workshops have already taken place in Ghana and Liberia. Digicel also provides vital support to the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign Secretariat and all necessary travel to enable the Campaign staff to engage directly with African Ministries of Health.

WHAT'S THE IMPACT?

Digicel has fulfilled their commitment to support efforts to increase community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting the cost of planning workshops and necessary travel expenses. Once the planning process is complete and additional community health workers are deployed, people living in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa will be more likely to live past the age of 5, survive childbirth, and less likely to be affected by common illnesses due to the support of these health workers.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

The One Million Community Health Workers Campaign will continue to work with governments and other partners in sub-Saharan Africa to increase access to healthcare in these rural communities, focusing on Nigeria and Malawi in 2014. More children than ever will survive childbirth, reach the age of 5 and having done so, will be less likely to be affected by common illnesses due to teh support of these community health workers.