Health Initiatives

After experiencing the tragic loss of three women farmers and two young children from preventable diseases, Engage Globally and our local partners have expanded our health efforts, focusing on preventive education and access to essential resources. Programs include health education sessions along with the distribution of period packs, soap and first aid supplies. We have also launched a health emergency fund to provide transportation to the regional health clinic and pay for medications. These efforts aim to address core threats like cerebral malaria, as well as to empower girls, to make informed health decisions.

our impact

  • 80 girls participate in health education led by a local nurse and receive period packs.
  • 40 women farmers engage in health learning from a local midwife
  • Six villages and 8,000 people have access to emergency health fund
  • All local teachers and staff are trained in first aid and supplied with first aid kits.

Education and emergency support to address rising needs

In rural Ghana, access to basic health education and care remains limited—but small interventions can have a powerful ripple effect. Engage Globally’s health programs promote dignity and well-being through health education, first aid supplies and period packs, and emergency assistance. Additionally, all of our programs support food security and encouragement of handwashing to reduce illnesses caused by a lack of access to clean water. 

Provide 400 youth with daily lunches, serving over 60,000 a year.

support health initiatives

Program Components:

School lunches

A local nurse/midwife teaches first aid, hygiene, personal health, and women’s health workshops to all of the participants in our programs and the staff of our local partner organization, CER.

Health education

During the dry season, after the severe drought, our partners distributed food to mothers with children under age 5 and pregnant women.

Emergency food

Nets were provided to elderly women and pregnant women in some of our partner communities.

Malaria nets

future goals

  • We hope to significantly grow our emergency health fund and, eventually, to provide a vehicle for our partner organization to use for emergencies. 

  • Provide women in our partner communities with thermometers and expand our health education program to the friends and families of our women farmers. This will help them to prevent malaria and identify cerebral malaria symptoms in their children for urgent care. 

  • Grow our emergency food supplies so that we can distribute food to more village communities, if needed. 

  • Hire the nurse/midwife to do more trainings and to help train future trainers through more detailed workshops.

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Transportation to the regional health center and inability to purchase medications for care were identified as the two largest barriers to emergency health care. We have created a small fund and partnered with a taxi driver to address these challenges and to reduce deaths from cerebral malaria and birth complications.

Emergency care fund

Young women in our programs receive period packs to help them not miss school, teachers have first aid kits, and most participants receive soap.

Health supplies

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