Description

Community health workers are trained to provide health information and promote good health practices in their communities. This can include teaching families how to avoid preventable illnesses, performing basic health checks and dispensing medicines.

How your gift helps

TEAR is supporting Medair to provide life-saving nutrition and health services to vulnerable people in Somalia, including those displaced by conflict. 

Medair’s approach is two-fold: strengthening local health care providers so that they can provide better care and treatment, while at the same time creating a strong system of community-based health care and health promotion through volunteer community health workers.

With these two approaches working together, Medair hopes to see a reduction in death and illness amongst some of the most vulnerable communities in Somalia.

Medair’s work has a particular focus on mothers and children as they seek to address the alarmingly high rates of maternal and child mortality in Somalia that result from a lack of access to basic health services, brought about by decades of conflict.

Your gift of Invest in a Health Worker is contributing to projects like this one and making a difference in the lives of those facing poverty and marginalisation.

About our partner

Medair is a Christian development organisation that is motivated by faith to care for those who are suffering and to bring hope to those devastated by crisis. Together with the communities it serves, it strives to make sustainable improvements and increase capacity to build a better future. It believes that each person has been made in God’s image and reaches out to all those in need, irrespective of their race, gender, religion, age, or nationality.

What you receive

• Choose from a printed card or download-and-print pdf card (or no card, just a tax-deductible receipt).
• Links to download-and-print cards are emailed to you after checkout.
• The amount you have donated will not be on the card.
• Printed cards:
  • A blank envelope for your card.
  • Free standard postage within Australia (5-7 working days) or $6 for Express Post (2-3 working days). Express Post cards will normally be sent the same day if the order is made before 1:30pm AEST. Please note: Express Post only operates in these areas within Australia.
  • Note: We cannot ship printed cards outside Australia (but you can still order the digital cards).
  • Note: We do NOT write on your cards—they are delivered to you to personalise.
• A tax-deductible receipt.