Improving Healthcare Through Education

Sustainable, informative healthcare for remote communities in Lake Natron, Tanzania

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When people better understand their health issues, they make better healthcare choices.

Founded in remote Lake Natron, Tanzania to address the needs of two severely under resourced Masai communities, Natron Healthcare aims to improve healthcare through health education. Using empathic, culturally respectful teaching methods, we work with communities to build their understanding of basic, preventable and treatable health issues, as well as more socially complex issues such as family planning. We then ensure that the communities’ demand for improved care can be appropriately met with local and regional services. We view community health holistically and as the foundation for progressive social and environmental health.

Natron Healthcare:

  • Creates respectful, effective and sustainable education modules for family planning and women’s health initiatives.
  • Holds annual education workshops with the villages of Magadini and Wosiwosi to address health issues such as STDs, dehydration and diarrhoea, burns, anaemia, hygiene and maternal nutrition.
  • Supports the children of both communities with deworming medication and Vitamin A supplements, school lunches and scholarships.
  • Works with regional partners including the Longido District Medical Office, Flying Medical Service and Global Ministries to support their services with material support and sensitivity training.

Knowledge becomes a community resource.

Successfully educating people about their own health allows them to make informed decisions about their healthcare needs and to realize their human and legal right to adequate care.

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