Improving Community Health and Food Security

This project aims to improve the health of people living in 251 rural villages in Mozambique Tanzania and Burundi by increasing their access to primary health care and clean water promoting good health habits and improving the agricultural yield of smallholder farmers. Most illnesses and deaths in the project villages are due to preventable diseases lack of access to trained health workers and lack of access to clean water and adequate food. The project therefore seeks to increase the number of community health workers provide bicycle ambulances to remote villages build or expand basic health infrastructure where most needed and enhance access to clean water by refurbishing old wells and building new ones. The project also educates women men and children on sexual reproductive health proper nutrition and sanitation maternal and child health HIV and AIDS and gender issues and trains both women and men farmers on best practices in sustainable agriculture. The project is implemented with local partners in each country: the Anglican Diocese of Bujumbura in Burundi EHALE in Mozambique and the Anglican Diocese of Masasi in Tanzania.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include : (i) increased number of women men and children seeking having access to and receiving equitable and gender-sensitive health services such as maternal and child health vaccinations nutrition; (ii) increased food production and improved nutrition; and (iii) increased community access to basic human needs such as clean water and health services.