Fonkoze empowers Haitians, primarily rural women, to lift their families out of poverty by providing access to the tools, resources, and support needed to overcome and thrive. The organization’s approach to empowerment is holistic - addressing the many systemic roots of poverty: lack of access to education, financial and health services, and more.

Fonkoze’s health program Boutik Sante, in particular, serves approximately 250,000 households each year, offering health resources to communities throughout Haiti that include vitamin distribution, screenings for child malnutrition and therapeutic feeding treatments, hypertension screenings for cardiovascular disease, and preventative healthcare trainings. This program alone, which won the 2021 European Microfinance Award, has increased access to health services and education for more than 3.3 million people since its inception in 2014. More information.

With the support of EU Humanitarian Aid and Irish Aid, GOAL’s local healthcare unit in Abyei have immunized 934 children against measles, diphtheria and hepatitis B, helping achieve a local immunization rate of 93% in 2021. This success is the result of improved capacity of local healthcare staff and their dedication in implementing the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI). The program is providing vital protection for children and helping to reduce the child mortality rate in this region of South Sudan.

Malual’s training included vaccine management, daily temperature monitoring and tracking immunization coverage. He is also working with Home Health Promoters to motivate people in the community to complete their doses according to their vaccination schedules. Malual receives regular follow up support from GOAL to ensure he can affect the change he wants to see in the community. More information.

Julieth Zabrano faced overstrained health systems and xenophobia while seeking prenatal care after leaving Venezuela for Colombia. More Information

In Zimbabwe's Harare region, Covid-19's impacts on food security and limited access to healthcare and nutrition education has had devastating consequences for community health, particularly for children. To complement its Emergency Social Cash Transfer program targeting food insecure and vulnerable households, GOAL partnered with UNICEF and Promobile, a private sector partner, to provide downloadable lifesaving nutritional videos, photos and recipes through WIFI-routers mounted on trucks to help ensure that infants and children from six months to two years benefit from a balanced diet. The preloaded information also encourage visits to local health facilities and share tips on food preservation and gardening. This approach was noted by a local nutritionist to be a different and fun way to inform busy parents and spread nutrition and health information more widely. More information.