Healthy Learners
The health needs of school age children are still largely unmet across Africa. Children with common childhood illnesses—malaria, water borne disease, infections—get care late, or not at all.
The Idea
Teachers as Health Workers
Total Investment
2400000
Grants
0
Equity/SAFE
0
Debt/Convertible Debt
Funded Since
2017
Geography
Sector
Structure
The Mission
Keep school-aged kids healthy.
How It Works
Healthy Learners makes schools a point of care in the health system. They help government create school health centers and train volunteer teachers to staff them. Sick kids get treated or taken to local clinics, where they get priority care.
The Dream
Governments across Africa integrate school-based healthcare into national systems.
Why We're In
This is a proven, government-ready model for school-based primary healthcare that costs just $1.50 per student per year to maintain. Healthy Learners is scaling fast across Zambia—now in 10 of 10 provinces and reaching more than 1M kids. Their strategy combines grassroots delivery with top-down policy influence. From the start, they supported the health and education ministries to deliver their integrated program, but it was always government-owned. A new RCT will test the model at scale, and early signs suggest it’s cheap and good enough for governments to run without them. This is a smart bet on a massive need—new countries are on the horizon.
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