Promoting Public Health in MUKO

 The ACT HEAL Program (Health is Elemental to All Life) works in 74 villages from 7 different parishes of Muko Sub-County - Butare, Karengyere, Kaara, Nyarurambi, Kyenyi, Kabere, and Ikamiro Parishes. HEAL has a team of 15 members; 13 volunteer Health Promotion Workers (HPWs), an Assistant HEAL Manager and a HEAL Manger. The HPWs mobilize community members to come for the dialogue.

A Village Dialogue with Tom Akwankasa leading

The HEAL team members work together with Ugandan governmental Village Health Teams, local leaders and church leaders. They sensitize the different community members in topics such as sanitation and hygiene, gender domestic violence, accidents in young children, alcoholism, poverty, nutrition and malnutrition among others. 

The various community members greatly appreciate the services rendered by HEAL which benefits everyone in Muko Sub-County. They have learned many things from the different topics mentioned above. Community members only have one way to get general information in their lives: the radio. This becomes a crucial way to also share health information which ACT did during COVID. 

Stay tuned for another Blog Post on the HEAL Program after we begin presenting dramas about health for the villages!

A recent village following their dialogue (Tom in green vest)

Submitted by Thomas Akwankasa, ACT HEAL Assistant Manager


ACT Needs You!
We encourage you to join any of our teams but we especially have some current, critical needs:
  • A Volunteer with social media skills to manager our Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest accounts. (1-2 hours per week from your own computer at your own time)
  • A Volunteer who has a desire for merchandizing to manage our two online "stores" that sell the handcrafts.ACT's Website Shop and ACT's Etsy Shop
  • A Volunteer who has an interest (and hopefully some experience!) in helping raise money for ACT's programs; creating online fund-raising campaigns, planning events and donor management. 
A huge thank you to all our volunteers who number over 200! Everyone one of you plays a critical role in making ACT successful. 




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