Last Mile Health trains and pays community health workers who reach isolated villages in Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, bringing basic medical care to communities that once had none. They have now received the world’s largest annual award to a nonprofit.
For two decades, the UK-based Better Lives Foundation has run a free hospital in rural Sierra Leone, training local staff, expanding into maternal care and dentistry, and treating thousands of patients each year, at no cost to those who walk through its doors.
Through grassroots collaboration and support from California nonprofit Mission Brain, Sierra Leone launched its first neurosurgical service, offering hope to eight million people who previously had no access to life-saving brain and spine surgery.
Last Mile Health transforms healthcare delivery in remote communities by training and paying local health workers, ensuring no patient is out of reach in Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone.