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CHW Impact: January 2025
As we step into 2025, our Community Health Workers (CHWs) continue to make a profound impact in their communities. From health education to life-saving interventions, their dedication is transforming lives. Here are some of the incredible highlights from January:
Carrefour, Haiti: Community Health Event (January 2-5, 2025)
Group leader Fritznel trained approximately 400 children in nutrition and blood pressure monitoring. Children expressed gratitude, recognizing how this knowledge could save lives in their community:
- “With this info that we take from you today, we will save the life of a lot of people in my community.”
- “If we had this info before, we could have saved the life of my aunt.”
Fritznel reflected, “No words to thank all of you for always continuing to train us so we can train others in our communities according to 2 Timothy 2:2.”
El Jute, El Salvador: Monthly Meeting (January 22, 2025)
CHWs met in their monthly meeting to discuss stress, anxiety, and depression, topics the group felt were critical for their community. One of the CHWs shared a powerful testimony about the importance of mental health discussions:
- “For many people, this is a delicate subject. They do not talk about it because when people say that someone suffers from it, they think that they are crazy, and so they suffer in solitude, as was my case for many years. That is why there are many suicides; people feel alone and that nobody understands them. They isolate themselves and only think bad things, and just the fact of listening to a person can help a lot.”
Group leader Xiomara emphasized the value of these meetings: “At each meeting, we learn something new, which helps us to help more people. Thank you for providing such valuable information.”
Gwanda, Zimbabwe: Monthly Meeting (January 30, 2025)
CHWs in Gwanda gathered for their first monthly meeting of 2025 to discuss rabies prevention due to frequent dog bite cases and high treatment costs, stressing the importance of dog vaccination.
CHW Success Stories:
- Sithabile: Referred a patient with septic piles for survey; treated a 2-year-old’s diarrhea with a salt-sugar solution.
- Kimberley: Provided first aid to a student who fainted and conducted vital signs checkups.
- Elizabeth: Assisted a diabetic patient with medication adherence education and referrals.
- Mary: Referred a patient with severe edema and fever to the hospital, though he later passed away.
- Alice: Screened and referred five artisanal miners for tuberculosis (TB); one was diagnosed with silicosis. Also, monitored a 16-week pregnant teenager.
- Emily: Performed BP checkups, TB screenings, and raised awareness about child vaccinations.
Looking Ahead
Our CHWs are already planning impactful initiatives for the months ahead. Stay tuned for February updates, and thank you for supporting our mission to empower CHWs worldwide!
