Be it Ever so Humble

Michael Lewis, Board member reporting:

Home visits are hard. Smells are foreign.  Conditions are rough, to say the least.  Illness is not pretty.

All of that falls away, or at least falls into place, when our local healthworkers lead the way.  With training and preparation, the Kafwa and Sinkhani, as many are called, kneel, talk, tend, hold, witness, prescribe.  We can teach them, but they must do. Which is how it goes, and how it likely is going right now in a village in Zambia, Malawi, the D.R. Congo, or Nepal.  

They are walking the dirt paths of their townships to visit the sick, to administer evidence-based treatments we have taught them to hydrate sick children or to heal the ever present leg ulcer, to ensure patients are keeping their clinic appointments, or just being kept company.   Others, still, are delivering babies while protecting the health of the mother, the child, and the healthcare worker, again, with skills and tools we provide.  Without the healthworkers, disease and desperation would spread so much quicker. 

Supported by the funding and training of HealthEd Connect, community healthworkers are learning to treat and cure and heal.  The need is so great.