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Thoughts from the Last Mile
October 26, 2021
Living Our Values Since Day One
It all started with a plane, a cyclone and a desire to help people.
In 1999, Graça Machel and her husband Nelson Mandela boarded a plane to Seattle. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation sponsored their trip, which aimed to raise awareness and funding for both Machel’s and Mandela’s respective foundations. At the time Gates and McCaw ran a telecommunications company, and they sent one of their executives, Blaise Judja-Sato, to South Africa as a welcoming committee to accompany Machel and Mandela on the flight.
It was during the…
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Africa’s cargo drone summit deliberates last-mile delivery and partnership
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Protecting community health workforce during COVID-19
July 20, 2021
The Duality of Digital Self-Care
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Integration of health solutions into government systems
June 21, 2021
Provinces align strategies to improve medicine distribution in Mozambique
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Are Drones the Answer to More Equitable Health Care?
May 20, 2021
Indian Vaccine Export Halt Leaves Africa Without Doses
May 19, 2021
Drones to digital: Asia, Africa find ways to plug COVID health gaps
May 13, 2021
How harm reduction models can save US lives in the pandemic
May 5, 2021
You can’t achieve development by working around government
May 4, 2021
Fast Company: CAF-Africa selected as a finalist World Changing Ideas Awards 2021
May 4, 2021
Devex: How funders can best work with governments to scale innovation
May 4, 2021
Devex: In COVID-19 vaccine race, rollouts are sometimes an afterthought
May 4, 2021
Axios: Vaccinating Africa: Countries struggle to deliver the few shots they've got
May 4, 2021
May 4, 2021
Voice of America : Rural COVID, Urban COVID: Africa Sees Sharp Divide
March 22, 2021
Devex: Billions of COVID-19 vaccines, one problem: Who will deliver them?
March 22, 2021
Politico: What’s missing from the global vax rollout
March 3, 2021
Gavi: How to make sure COVID-19 vaccines reach as many people as possible
March 2, 2021
TV5 Report: Drones for Health in Equateur, DRC
January 29, 2021
Democratic Republic of Congo Launches Routine Drones Deliveries
January 29, 2021
New York Times: In Crises, Vaccines Can Be Stretched, but Not Easily
November 24, 2020
October 28, 2020
NPR: Why Diversity Training Has Been Suspended At USAID
September 10, 2020
Devex: New fund aims to deliver PPE to 1 million frontline health workers in Africa
June 26, 2020
Washington Global Health Alliance: VillageReach is recognized as a Pioneer of Global Health
June 26, 2020
DronesLife: COVID-19 is Here, Now Where are the Drones?
February 28, 2020
CCPF is a Driver of Transformative Initiative
February 28, 2020
December 17, 2019
December 10, 2019
VillageReach Announces New Board Members
November 25, 2019
Skoll Foundation Spotlight: How Mad Libs Helped Share Insights of Scaling Through Government
October 25, 2019
Puget Sound Business Journal: PSBJ Unveils its Most Equitable Workplaces List Makers
September 25, 2019
August 27, 2019
Ross Files: Emily Bancroft, Delivery Life-Saving Vaccines with Drones
August 8, 2019
July 26, 2019
INFUSE 2019: Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Urban Immunisation Coverage
July 18, 2019
M&G: Sharing Best Practice Key to Healthy Results Solutions
July 18, 2019
World Bank Blogs: Three More Reasons to Invest in Health for the Excluded
July 18, 2019
SSIR: How to Transition Social Solutions to Government
April 22, 2019
Forbes: The Best Man For The Job Can Be A Woman: Three Ways To Kick-Start Your Journey To CEO
March 30, 2019
Press Release: VillageReach transitions Kwitanda Community Health Project to MaiKhanda Trust
March 15, 2019
CASE in Point Podcast: Government Partnerships, Impact vs. Costs
February 1, 2019
Crosscut: To solve WA's measles epidemic, look to Africa
January 14, 2019
December 7, 2018
The British Medical Journal: Making Multisectoral Collaboration Work
November 7, 2018
October 17, 2018
Patrick Sikana named vice president of VillageReach
October 17, 2018
VillageReach hires Craig Usswald as director, supply chain
September 27, 2018
Stanford Social Innovation Review
September 26, 2018
Scaling Pathways: Leveraging Government Partnerships for Scaled Impact
August 2, 2018
VOA Africa highlights CCPF impact in Malawi
July 13, 2018
CGTN Africa showcases CCPF and access to health information in Malawi
June 18, 2018
Seattle Met: VillageReach Goes the Last Mile
May 22, 2018
USAID awards VillageReach $14.7 million for Last Mile Supply Chain Project.
April 24, 2018
Proximity and the Power of Relationship
February 26, 2018
January 25, 2018
The Skoll Foundation Talks Sustainable Innovation with VillageReach
November 7, 2017
October 16, 2017
July 18, 2017
June 13, 2017
CCPF: One Step Closer to National Scale
March 2, 2017
OpenLMIS Version 3 is Released
February 28, 2017
October 14, 2016
VillageReach Wins DREAMS Innovation Award
July 26, 2016
Airtel Boosts Healthcare Access with Chiptala Cha Pa Foni
July 19, 2016
Evan Simpson featured as Changemaker by Global Washington
June 13, 2016
VillageReach names Evan Simpson as new President
December 22, 2015
VillageReach Receives Top Ranking on Charity Navigator 4 Years Running
November 23, 2015
VillageReach Wins Global Health Supply Chain Award
November 6, 2015
Announcing New Partnership with Airtel to Expand CCPF
August 24, 2015
Data Burden At the Last Mile - A New Report
July 1, 2015
Innovation Update! - Our latest newsletter (July 2015)
June 18, 2015
First Class of Pharmacy Assistants Graduate
April 6, 2015
New Policy Paper- Data for Management: It's Not Just Another Report
March 26, 2015
February 17, 2015
VillageReach and AMP Launch New Vaccine Information System in Benin
January 13, 2015
December 17, 2014
Published in JOPP - Other Duties as Required: Efficient Use of Human Resources in Mozambique
November 17, 2014
VillageReach Receives New Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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