Novelist, Paulo Coelho wrote, “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” Simple things — like investing in community health workers — create extraordinary results.
Well-trained and supported local health care workers are a cornerstone of PSI’s solutions to help people in the world’s poorest places lead healthier lives. These workers keep long hours and walk the last mile armed with skills, treatments and cultural awareness. They are midwives, pharmacists, nurses and doctors. And they make the difference.
Today is Giving Tuesday – a day for you to invest in them.
To honor this day, for the next 24 hours your donation will go three times as far through a $200,000 challenge gift from our board of directors. Please donate and help train more community health workers.
Photo: Assumpta Mayanja (standing, middle) is a registered midwife, nurse and owner of St. Joseph Domiciliary, a Profam partner in Kitetika, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda. Mayanja counsels clients at her clinic about different birth control options. Profam, a PSI social franchise network, helps to subsidize the products that St. Joseph Domiciliary provides so that lower to middle income Ugandans can afford care. An intra-uterine device (IUD) costs 3,000 Uganda Shillings or the equivalent of $1.25 US dollars for the IUD and insertion. (Credit: Vanessa Vick)