Jac Kirkpatrick's Contact Details

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HealthEd Connect

Independence, MO, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

HealthEd Connect empowers women and children through evidence-based health, education, and advocacy in Central Africa and Nepal. Training volunteer health workers is the heart of our work, empowering women as leaders in their villages. Providing primary education to orphans and vulnerable children is an out growth of participatory needs assessments in communities. HealthEd Connect remains flexible and adaptive by connecting village communities and their leaders to expanding visions of possibilities, targeted training, and access to resources that break a cycle of dependency, poverty, and disease.Democratic Republic of Congo - trained Wasaidizi in Kasenga and Lumbashi specialize as traditional birth attendants. Over the past five years, focused family planning efforts reduced birth rates by approximately 40%. We built and supply five modest birthing clinics where the Wasaidizi ensure safe and sanitary services to women who would otherwise not have access.Zambia - Trained Kafwa provide palliative care; teach sanitation, nutrition, oral rehydration, healthy behaviors to prevent disease; and treat topical wounds. After AIDS decimated a generation of parents, the Kafwa made a compelling case for the orphans and vulnerable children left behind. We built and support three schools in the Copperbelt region, enrolling over 1,000 children each year. In the Luapula region, another 18 Kafwa have been recently trained.Malawi - trained SInkhani work with government clinics to weigh and monitor the heath of babies and mothers in the Mzimba and Lilongwe regions.Nepal - trained Soyemsebika provide supplies and relief to villages outside the Kathmandu area still stressed by the 2015 earthquake. Makeshift housing conditions in high altitude lack sanitation. The Soyemsebika are assessing long-term community needs while providing critical health services.