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This is a truly exciting time for Food For Education! The Kenyan social enterprise is providing affordable, nutritious hot school meals to 450,000 children every day in over 1,200 schools across the country, increasing enrolment, attendance and pupil performance. On the back of this achievement, Food4Education has just announced an ambitious Pan-African strategy for school feeding, declaring it aims to: 📈 Triple its impact to feed 1 million children daily by 2030   🌍 Work with two African countries to provide technical advice and support them to localise, operationally improve and scale their school meals programmes   🍲 Share its learnings from twelve years of experience through a Centre of Excellence that will teach those who want to start and scale school feeding programmes in their communities. We had the opportunity to visit Food4Education last March and wrote about their team of more than 3,000 professionals, including cooks, loaders, cleaners and drivers. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/d_r443B5 You’ll probably recognise some of the smiling faces 😊 featured in the lovely video below. Please help us to amplify their success! #WorldFoodDay #FeedingTheFuture #RightToFood #schoolfeeding #schoolmeals #schoolmealsatscale Wawira Njiru Liviya David Warui Nduati

A TIMELESS INVESTMENT IN HEALTH FOR ALL Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) convened the largest ever delegation of Community Health Workers (#CHWs) at a side event of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in September. Here, together, they explored the transformative potential of salaried, skilled, supervised and appropriately supplied CHWs. CHIC Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Madeleine Ballard’s strong and clear concluding message resonated with the audience and the world: “To win as a movement... we will have to stay relentlessly focused over decades, even as new fads are popping up left and right. But we can do it. We can do it if we stay in the game, and we stay together. Wartime, peacetime, boom or bust, Community Health Workers are always a no regrets investment.” What now, then? For funders: make #proCHW best practice a funding requirement. For CHWs or health organisations: join the movement and make your voice heard. For ministers and policymakers: adopt proCHW as national policy. Find out more about CHIC’s movement in over 60 countries and its vital work to ensure quality care for all – including those who provide it. Click here: https://lnkd.in/eCDWccc9 #UNGA79 #communityhealthworkers #communityhealth

Today, we’re spotlighting our three partner organisations in the United States, who are each addressing growing inequalities by improving access to essential services for marginalised communities. To find out more about Harlem Children's Zone, the Community Health Worker Institute and StrongMinds America, simply dive into our Annual Report here: https://lnkd.in/gGSin9dg Corina Tse Kevin Fiori Jr. Adam Sirois, MPH Sean Mayberry

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗅 Numbers are vital. They’re the key to accountability, with measurement helping us to understand if we’re truly moving the needle on the things that matter and making progress. But what we really love about the numbers below is that they give “impact” a sense of justice, redressing profound wrongs and restoring rights and dignity. Kids are gaining foundational learning (Kidogo), girls are safer (Ujamaa Africa), farmers have learnt how to take care of their plots (Proximity Designs), and people crossing the Mediterranean survive the journey (SOS MEDITERRANEE Switzerland). Check out our report for more transformational changes: https://lnkd.in/gGSin9dg

THE WORLD’S LARGEST DISPLACEMENT CRISIS The sprawling war in Sudan, now in its 17th month, has largely been ignored worldwide since fighting began between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces in April 2023. Violence, killings, torture and sexual assaults have uprooted nearly 10.4 million people, causing the world’s largest displacement crisis. More than 800,000 people have crossed into eastern Chad, mostly settling in the Ouaddaï region, where they are struggling to survive in refugee camps and informal settlements where basic services are under immense pressure. Medical needs are soaring. We’re funding Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to provide essential health services in Adré hospital, the only permanent medical facility in the region, as well as in the transit camp around the city, and in Aboutengue refugee camp and its surrounding villages. You can find out more about MSF’s crucial work here: https://lnkd.in/d42xsien For more information on the terrible human cost of the conflict and violence in Sudan, read on here: https://lnkd.in/d7wXGiJc Médecins Sans Frontières (Switzerland) Stephen Cornish Léa Szczerba #msf #TalkAboutSudan #DoctorsWithoutBorders #Sudan #Chad #PeopleOnTheMove

Our latest Annual Report which covers the period April 2023 to March 2024, is live! As you read through its pages, you’ll discover the remarkable work of our partner organisations, the tremendous progress they’ve achieved, and their unwavering drive to keep improving the lives of vulnerable communities around the world. Our partners’ determination is a source of great pride and daily inspiration. We’re happy to use our voice to amplify their stories and those of the people we serve, bringing in more allies to our shared causes: better healthcare, nutrition and education, and equal opportunities and choices for everyone.   Read full report here: https://lnkd.in/d2pX2H-K

Health nonprofits are using artificial intelligence to advance health equity. They are using it: ✅ To make sense of the vast amount of data the health care industry generates ✅ To improve the ability of healthcare workers to reach more patients ✅ To give patients more control of their health, through personalised advice, monitoring and care ✅ To accelerate research for neglected diseases ✅ To build open source software and put it into the hands of those who need it most. SSIR recently published a great overview of some interesting use cases, including Intelehealth and its AI-powered digital assistant #Ayu. https://lnkd.in/dktv4mmY Read more about Ayu and how it is increasing access, improving quality, and advancing gender equity in the link below (and don’t miss the final set of recommendations!): https://lnkd.in/d7Xuu4WZ #artificalintelegenceforhealth #ai

Making the link between cost and impact is critical to the concept of high-impact philanthropy. Data on “cost-effectiveness” can help donors identify where the money they have will make the greatest difference. This excellent article by Our World in Data compares the cost-effectiveness of different interventions and examines how immense the difference can be between an “averagely effective” and “extraordinarily effective” organisation. Questions beyond cost-effectiveness are asked in development research, and rightly so. But this article brings some surprising data to the table and adds some informed conclusions to the debate. You can read the full article here : https://lnkd.in/gnMwggKs

The last time Ella Gudwin, CEO of VisionSpring, visited us in Geneva, she looked around the room – which was full of people wearing glasses 👓, except for one - and asked when everyone had started using them. Some had needed them as toddlers, some as teenagers, some as they approached their forties or fifties. It was a powerful way of showing that glasses are ubiquitous for those who have access to them, enabling young children to thrive, teenagers to learn and study, and adults to earn a living. VisionSpring works to provide affordable glasses to people living on less than $4 per day. Since 2018, we’ve been funding their “Reading Glasses for Improved Livelihoods” programme in Bangladesh. We tend to focus on the economic impact of glasses because of their immediate, transformative outcomes. But glasses open opportunities of all kinds. The video below for instance highlights their power to create art and pass our traditions on to new generations. #glasses #visioncorrection Erica DeKranes Ramona Handel-Bajema, PhD Melissa Bromley 🔥 Heather Ann Koehn

Twenty years ago, the founders of 1001fontaines designed a simple 💧water purification infrastructure that was easy to fund, set up and operate in rural Cambodia. The straightforward design of the water kiosks has helped local entrepreneurs to adopt them and ensured long-term sustainability with little money. While the number of people with access to clean water has constantly grown, the kiosks have remained largely the same over time. 1001fontaines believes that sustainable water services come from service providers’ good management rather than fancy machines. The case study below explains why 1001fontaines created the enhanced Water Kiosk 2.0 and how it is making things more efficient. #worldwaterweek #waterentrepreneurs #measureimpact