Healthy Entrepreneurs brings health services to 20 million Africans

According to the World Health Organisation, 90 per cent of essential interventions for universal health coverage can be delivered using primary health care. Dutch social enterprise Healthy Entrepreneurs embraces this approach by providing business opportunities for community health workers to improve healthcare in hard-to-reach rural communities.

Community health worker Healthy Entrepreneurs in Africa

Project summary

Healthy Entrepreneurs operates an innovative franchise network of over 15.000 Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHE) in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Congo, and Nigeria. The CHEs have already provided 1.5 million families with essential health care products and primary health services in areas that otherwise would be difficult to access.

To support the company’s ambition to reach over 20 million families through a network of 90.000 CHEs, Philips Foundation Impact Investments and Madiro committed to fund around 15 per cent in share capital. We matched their commitment with a €4,5 million loan via the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF), which we manage on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Project impact

Reducing costs for accessing healthcare

The company's affordable last-mile distribution helps rural families avoid spending 55 per cent of their health budget on transport.

Creating income opportunities for women

By expanding its network, Healthy Entrepreneurs can help more people, primarily women, to start working as Community Health Officers and earn more.

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