From 2nd to 9th December your donation will be doubled
Every donation made through the Big Give Christmas Challenge will be matched, meaning your gift will go twice as far to empower women and communities across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Double the donation, double the difference.
Supporting women’s health doesn’t just benefit the individual. It transforms families and helps entire communities thrive.
The Issues
Across rural East Africa, millions of people live far from the nearest health facility. Many walk hours to reach care. For countless families, healthcare is simply out of reach.
Women and girls are especially affected. Clinics are distant, transport is costly and cultural barriers often limit their autonomy. Early marriage, teenage pregnancy and female genital mutilation (FGM) remain widespread. Access to maternal and child health services including antenatal care, safe delivery, postnatal care, vaccinations and family planning is limited for many families.
These challenges are compounded by poverty and environmental strain. Rural families rely heavily on natural resources and rapidly growing populations place increasing pressure on land, water and food security. Without access to healthcare, families struggle to break the cycle of ill health and poverty.
A Community Health Worker for our local partner, Big Life Foundation, en route to clients
Healthy Women, Healthy Communities: The Ripple Effect
In partnership with local organisations, CHASE Africa’s programmes create a powerful ripple effect across the communities we support that government health systems often cannot reach.
Through mobile clinics, Backpack Nurses, Community Health Workers, community dialogues and youth-friendly services, we bring essential healthcare, family planning and health education directly to people’s doorsteps.
When people can access quality healthcare, exercise their reproductive rights and plan their families, they are healthier, better informed and more economically secure.
Women and girls are able to stay in school, pursue opportunities and participate more fully in community life. Families gain resilience and can invest in their livelihoods.
When women can plan their families, the whole community becomes healthier and more secure.
This ripple effect extends beyond health. As communities become more resilient, they are better able to protect the natural resources they depend on.
We work closely with conservation organisations across East Africa to integrate community health programmes into their wider work, ensuring both people and nature can thrive together.
A Maasai couple taking their baby to be vaccinated at an outreach clinic run by our local partner Big Life Foundation
Stories of Change: The Ripple Effect in Action
Faith Takes Control of Her Health
Faith accessed reproductive and child health services in her village in Kenya for the first time, including family planning and child immunisations. This gave her the confidence to plan her family and protect her son’s health.
If the outreach clinics had not come, I would have continued postponing care for myself and my son, Brandon. Maybe I would have had another child before I was ready.
Faith lives in a remote area where CHASE Africa’s outreach clinics are often the only access point for family planning and child health services.
Faith takes her son to be vaccinated
Edith Drives Community Change
As a Community Health Worker for our partner Dandelion Africa in Kampi Turkana, Edith has seen remarkable change since a new Backpack Nurse site began serving her community.
More women now go for antenatal care, children are receiving all their vaccines and more mothers are choosing safe delivery at health facilities.
Her work demonstrates the power of local health leaders in reaching families who would otherwise be left behind.
Edith takes part in training to keep her knowledge up to date
Esther Empowers Girls and Women
Esther, a Community Health Worker and small-scale farmer in Meru County, joined a local women’s group producing reusable sanitary pads with support from Mount Kenya Trust.
This initiative is not only empowering us as women economically, but is also playing a crucial role in keeping many girls in school by ensuring they have access to sustainable menstrual products. This opportunity has changed the course of my life, giving me purpose, income and hope.
Today, she is a team leader, a mentor and a role model within her community.
Esther works with our local partner Mount Kenya Trust
Our Impact So Far
Over 25 years, together with our partners, we have:
- Delivered over 1,597,750 primary health services and 679,784 family planning services
- Distributed 5,540,275 condoms
- Recorded 668,390 attendances at Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights sessions in 2024
- Seen a shift in men’s and boys’ attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health
- Increased youth-friendly SRHR service provision
- Trained and supported over 370 Community Health Workers and 100 nurses
What Your Donation Will Support
Your donation will help us reach even more women, girls and families in hard-to-reach rural communities with life-changing healthcare.
Your support will help us to:
- Expand community health outreach programmes in remote areas
- Equip and train our local partners
- Strengthen health systems with tools, equipment and staff training
- Integrate environmental restoration and sustainable livelihoods into health projects
A women's dialogue organised by our local partner The Maa Trust
Every gift ensures more women and girls can access essential healthcare, transforming lives for generations.
What Your Donation Could Achieve
These examples show how far your gift can go and how much further during Big Give week:
- £10 provides contraception for a woman. Big Give makes that two women.
- £50 covers the costs of a Community Health Worker for a month. Big Give makes that two months.
- £100 funds a Community Dialogue on important health issues. Big Give makes that two dialogues.
- £250 supports two youth peer mentors for a year. Big Give makes that two years.
- £300 covers two Backpack Nurse outreach clinics. Big Give makes that four clinics.
- £550 funds training and support for a Community Health Worker for a year. Big Give supports two Community Health Workers.
- £800 covers an outreach clinic serving a remote community. Big Give provides two clinics.
Double your impact this Christmas
The Big Give Christmas Challenge ends on 9th December.
