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Health Program

Empowering community members in Mbuji-Mayi with health knowledge, hygiene practices, and preventive care skills that protect families and reduce illness.

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Mbuji-Mayi, DRC
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Preventive health & hygiene education
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Community-wide reach
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ACN founding programs
About This Program

Healthier Families Through Knowledge & Prevention

The Health Program delivers practical health and hygiene education to community members in Mbuji-Mayi. In a city with limited healthcare infrastructure, prevention is the most powerful tool available โ€” and this program puts that tool in communities' hands.

Participants learn about nutrition, sanitation, maternal and child health, common disease prevention, and basic first aid โ€” skills that protect entire households and spread naturally through communities.

Health education program participants in Mbuji-Mayi DRC
What We Teach

Skills & Knowledge Covered

Practical, hands-on learning that participants can apply immediately in their community.

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Hygiene & Sanitation

Handwashing, water purification, food safety, and safe waste disposal to prevent disease.

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Nutrition Education

Understanding nutritional needs, planning balanced meals from local foods, and preventing malnutrition.

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Maternal & Child Health

Antenatal care, safe delivery practices, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition and development.

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Malaria Prevention

Identifying malaria risk, using bed nets, and recognising early symptoms for fast treatment.

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Basic First Aid

Wound care, managing fever, treating diarrhoea, and knowing when to seek medical help.

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Community Health Advocacy

How to share health knowledge and become a trusted health resource within the community.

Health Program program outcomes in Mbuji-Mayi DRC
Outcomes

What Graduates Achieve

Health Program graduates become community health champions โ€” applying what they learn at home and sharing knowledge with neighbours, creating a ripple effect of better health across Mbuji-Mayi.

  • Improved hygiene practices reducing household illness
  • Better maternal and child health outcomes
  • Ability to identify and prevent common diseases like malaria and cholera
  • Capacity to deliver basic first aid within the community
  • Confidence to advocate for health in their family and neighbourhood
Our Approach

The ABCD Method

All ACN programs use Asset-Based Community Development โ€” building on community strengths rather than focusing on deficits.

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Assets

Identify the skills, knowledge, and resources already present in the community.

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Build

Build on those assets through targeted training and practical, hands-on programs.

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Connect

Connect participants with each other, with markets, and with ACN's microfinance fund.

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Drive

Community members drive their own development โ€” ACN facilitates, the community leads.

Microfinance & Impact

Health & Livelihoods Together

The Health Program links participants to ACN's broader development ecosystem. Many health graduates also enrol in Pharmacy & Lab Tech training or the Small Business program โ€” combining health knowledge with income generation.

ACN microfinance loans can also support health-related small businesses such as selling hygiene products, operating a small pharmacy, or providing community health services.

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Community reach
Hundreds of families
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Linked to
Pharmacy program
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Outcome
Reduced preventable illness
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Model
Community health champions
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Health Program microfinance and community impact
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Support Our Health Program

Your donation funds health education that protects entire families and communities โ€” preventing illness before it starts.

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