How Far Would You Walk for Healthcare?
Distance to Healthcare Challenge
The New Year is often a time for fresh starts and small, meaningful personal goals. CHASE Africa’s ‘Distance to Healthcare Challenge’ is a chance to enjoy moving your body, in whatever way works for you, while supporting life-changing healthcare in East Africa.
It’s a feel-good challenge you can fit around your everyday life, and a simple way to turn the movement you already enjoy into real, lasting impact.
We all have hobbies, fitness goals, or routines we enjoy, but what if your movement could also make a real difference?
In rural East Africa, people often need to travel long distances, frequently 15km each way, just to reach basic healthcare and family planning services. That’s 30km for a return journey, usually on foot.
Our Distance to Healthcare Challenge invites you to cover 30km in February and beyond in solidarity with these communities and help bring healthcare closer.
How you complete it is up to you
- Walk, jog, or run
- Spread it out over days or weeks
- Do it solo or invite friends, family, or colleagues
Women and children in Narok County, Kenya, walking to a Backpack Nurse site
Fundraising ideas
- Ask friends to sponsor you £30 for completing the challenge
- Or ask supporters for £1 per kilometre
- Or set a target such as £300, which could cover the costs of 2 Backpack nurse outreach clinics
How your fundraising helps
When you take on the Distance to Healthcare Challenge, you’re helping make that journey to healthcare shorter and safer for others. Your support allows CHASE Africa and our local partners to deliver vital services where they are needed most:
- Mobile and Backpack Nurse clinics reach remote communities
- Community Health Workers bring healthcare and family planning information directly to households
- Outreach Clinics help improve health-seeking behaviour and reduce barriers to services
Every step you take translates into real-world impact.
Real voices, real impact
One of the women supported by CHASE Africa shared her gratitude for improved access to maternal healthcare after she experienced complications at birth:
When I hold my baby in my arms, I am so grateful.
Elizabeth, after receiving health support that helped her deliver a healthy baby boy.
Get started
- Create your fundraiser page (e.g. set up a fundraising page on JustGiving)
- Connect Strava to JustGiving to automatically share progress
- Share your journey with friends and family
- Celebrate every step and every pound raised
- If you commit to raise £150 or more we will send you a CHASE Africa branded T-shirt. You can also purchase CHASE Africa branded clothing on our website.
What your donations could achieve:
- £50 could cover the costs of a Community Health Worker to provide people with health information, services and support for a month
- £100 could fund a Community Dialogue, providing a platform for women and their communities to discuss important health issues
- £300 could cover the costs of 2 Backpack nurse outreach clinics
- £800 could covers the cost of an outreach clinic, reaching the most remote, underserved communities
Share Your Journey
We’d love to see how you’re taking part.
- Share photos of your walks or runs
- Post your progress on social media
- Use the hashtag #DistanceToHealthcare
Our local partner, The Maa Trust, and the local community after a successful Backpack Nurse Clinic in Narok County
Together, we can turn February movement into lasting impact.
Please contact us at info@chaseafrica.org.uk if you would like any support or further information.
To receive your CHASE Africa T-Shirt, please send us the link to your fundraising page to the email above, with your fundraising goal set to £150 or more.