In Kisumu, Kenya WiRED International’s community health workers (CHWs) confront a staggering number of challenges every month in order to elevate the health of thousands of people in the region.
Residents in western Kenya, where WiRED International serves, face ongoing poverty, disease and hunger each day, but their lives are especially difficult around the holidays. In response, Sr. Bernadette Nealon
In today’s world, fraught with disease, conflict and the disastrous impact of climate change, everyone’s mental health can suffer — especially for 75% of people with depression who live in low-resource regions
In August WiRED International community health workers (CHWs) in Kisumu, Kenya continued to address local mpox concerns while preventing and spotting endemic diseases such as cholera, malaria and
This year WiRED International is proud to mark the 12th anniversary of our continuing community health education programs in Armenia. WiRED provides programs that allow doctors, healthcare workers
WiRED International launched our Community Health Worker (CHW) Program in Kisumu, Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The first CHW team of 13 members reached a total of 3,360 people
During another successful month of deployment, 20 community health workers (CHWs) in Kisumu, Kenya, reached a total of 10,486 people with health services. Working 24 hours per week, each of the CHWs
In May 2024 WiRED International’s community health worker (CHW) team in Kisumu worked amidst torrential rain and flooding. They visited families, conducted group health education sessions,
WiRED International reports that the third and fourth lecture sessions in the series “Health Is the Key to Well-Being” took place on May 8 and May 11, 2024, in the Armenian cities of Chkalovka and Sisian, respectively.
Summer is coming and with it the mosquito. Although tropical and subtropical areas of the world host epidemics of mosquito-borne diseases year round, climate change is causing mosquitoes to migrate