by admin | Jul 28, 2025 | Supply Chain
Health systems across Africa are facing a pivotal stress test, one triggered not by disease outbreaks, but by the sudden retreat of donor funding that has long underpinned essential services. Sudden and significant reductions in donor funding from major partners...
by admin | Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tropical Cyclone Eline struck Mozambique in 2000, bringing weeks of heavy rainfall and devastating floods. When telecommunications executive Blaise Judja-Sato visited the country at the request of the legendary advocate Graça Machel to assess how introducing satellite...
by admin | Apr 3, 2025 | Mozambique
Download the VillageReach 2024 Annual Report, “Accelerating Impact for Better Care.” The room buzzed with purpose, laptops humming amid focused discussion. Markers moved across whiteboards, ideas taking shape in vibrant color. Around tables strewn with...
by admin | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ensuring the long-term success of changes to the public health system is a complex but crucial undertaking. Today, we’re exploring VillageReach’s innovative approach to sustainability, Transitioning Well. We focus on handing over the management and...
by admin | Nov 14, 2017 | distribution system, Mozambique
What if…? These two words can be a spark for innovation. At VillageReach, our work often begins with this question. We start with big, promising ideas and work towards creating evidence of their impact in the hardest-to-reach communities. We are excited by our...
by admin | Aug 30, 2017 | distribution system, Supply Chain
I am proud to announce that last month a team composed of provincial government and VillageReach staff successfully conducted the first direct distribution of vaccines and family planning commodities in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | CCPF, Malawi, mHealth
This week, Chipatala cha pa Foni (CCPF) or “Health Center by Phone” moved its operations from Balaka, a rural community in southern Malawi, to its new facility in the capital city of Lilongwe. As we packed up the phones, headsets, and files, I was struck...
by admin | Jan 19, 2017 | distribution system, Mozambique, Supply Chain
Collaboration is at the heart of a unique public-private initiative to increase availability for a range of health products in Mozambique. Tete provincial health authorities, Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and VillageReach have partnered with the private sector...
by admin | Jan 6, 2017 | CCPF, Malawi, Notes from the Field
I recently returned from a trip to Malawi where I had the opportunity to visit several families who have benefited from Chipatala Cha Pa Foni, or Health Center by Phone, a toll-free health hotline in Malawi that connects individuals directly with trained health...
by admin | Oct 26, 2016 | Notes from the Field
Today marks my second day of a two-week tour to visit the VillageReach offices in Malawi and Mozambique. My mission? To get a firsthand perspective of the “last mile” and document our work through the words and stories of those who benefit directly from VillageReach...
