For four years, Carlota, a community health worker in Nawitela-Namuli, Mozambique, has built trust door to door. Through VillageReach’s Bate-Papo project, she helped bring the community its first mobile health brigade, closing the distance to routine childhood immunization.
In a neglected primary health centre within Nigeria’s administrative capital, a farmer-turned-health worker volunteers to provide healthcare for the people. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Vedastina Shumbusho received the Women in Global Health Africa Award for her 3 am digital report that helped contain a deadly Marburg outbreak in rural Tanzania.
Older CHWs bring unique perspectives, wisdom, and empathy to their roles, making them valuable assets in improving the overall health of their communities.