January 17, 2023: On Tuesday, Living Goods handed over more community health worker (CHW) equipment to the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso at an official ceremony held in Ziniaré health district. The ceremony was chaired by Dr Estelle Edith Dambele/Dabire, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health & Public Hygiene, and saw the participation of different key stakeholders from the Ministry of Health as well as the decentralised administrative organs.

On behalf of the Minister of Health, the Secretary General reiterated the importance of community health as reflected in the Ministry’s vision and the key role played by CHWs)—locally known as ASBCs. The equipment will be used in the district of Ziniaré, where Living Goods launched a Learning Site at the end of 2022 to generate country specific evidence and lessons in community health that will inform government scaling. The CHWs who were present expressed gratitude and pledged to work to improve the health outcomes in their respective catchment areas. Living Goods has trained, equipped and deployed all 494 CHWs and 70 government supervisors in Ziniaré, but directly manages 226 CHWs in the Learning Site.

After the ceremony, the team, lead by Dr Patrick Singa, the Living Goods Burkina Faso Director was hosted by her excellency Mrs Sy Assetou Barry/Traore, the Governor of the Plateau Central region.