Love HeartFoundation · Kenya

Our Work · 03

Health care that reaches the village, not just the highway

Out-of-pocket health costs push hundreds of thousands of Kenyan families into poverty every year, and the burden lands hardest on mothers and children far from tarmac. Community health volunteers carry the last mile on foot, usually unpaid and under-equipped.

1M+Kenyans a year are pushed into poverty by health costsSource: Ministry of Health household surveys

A community health volunteer with a supply kit talking with a mother outside a rural clinic, Samburu County
Kenya

How we work in health

  • 01

    Equip and compensate community health volunteers through county partnerships.

  • 02

    Fund cold chain and solar power for rural clinics so vaccines survive the journey.

  • 03

    Maternal health kits assembled in Kenya from Kenyan suppliers.

Unit economics: $12 (KES 1,550) = 1 maternal health kit

Founding projects, costed and ready

Planning estimates, refined with the Kenyan delivery partner at funding. The partner is named on the ledger the moment funds first move.

Samburu County · founding pipeline

Samburu Maternal Health Outreach

Training, kit and stipends for 60 community health volunteers in partnership with the county health office, focused on safe deliveries and postnatal checks.

Delivers: 60 equipped CHVs covering remote manyattas

  1. M1Funds committed and held
  2. M2Kits assembled from Kenyan suppliers
  3. M3Training complete, CHV register filed
  4. M4Six-month activity report published

$27,500KES 3,550,000

Fund this

Verification: County health office records plus CHV register sampling

Kisumu County · founding pipeline

Kisumu Clinic Solar and Cold Chain

Solar power and vaccine refrigeration for three rural clinics, installed by Kisumu solar technicians, so vaccines stop dying in transit.

Delivers: Three clinics with reliable power and working cold chain

  1. M1Funds committed and held
  2. M2Equipment procured, Kenyan installers contracted
  3. M3All three systems commissioned, GPS filed
  4. M412-month uptime record published

$19,800KES 2,550,000

Fund this

Verification: Commissioning certificates plus fridge temperature logs