KidCare Initiative
When a child falls sick where a clinic can’t reach, care shouldn’t depend on the road.
So every child can:
📈 The need: 1 in 2 children fall sick at least once a year (SJH Research Africa, 2021)
The same care, for children the classroom never reaches
Many children fall outside the school system altogether — in rural parishes, peri-urban slums and refugee-hosting areas — and carry the same untreated illnesses.
KidCare would take fully equipped mobile clinics to children at community centres, refugee settlements and rural parishes: routine and urgent screening, basic treatment, health education, menstrual and psychosocial support, and structured referral integrated with public health infrastructure.
- ✓Routine and urgent medical screening in community settings.
- ✓Basic treatment and health education for children and caregivers.
- ✓Menstrual health and psychosocial support services.
- ✓Structured referral integrated with the public health system.
The case for KidCare
of African schoolchildren have scabies — bathing without soap is a documented risk factor
of under-fives are stunted
of girls in sub-Saharan Africa miss school because of menstruation
of Ugandan twelve-year-olds report a history of toothache
Sources: Girma et al., SAGE Open Medicine 2024 (scabies meta-analysis, 28,482 children) · Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2022 · pooled meta-analysis of 18 sub-Saharan African studies · Kiwanuka & Åstrøm, Ugandan schoolchildren
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A national reach, region by region
Beginning in three priority regions and extending countrywide — reaching children in community centres, settlements and rural parishes, not only schools.
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90% of children screened receive treatment or referral
Every child seen is either treated on site or referred onward, with the referral tracked to completion.
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$13.21 average cost per child / year
Holding to the cost-efficiency of the flagship model.
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Three priority regions, then nationwide
A staged roadmap for scale-up as capacity and funding grow.
Help us turn KidCare from a plan into a clinic
This initiative needs partners and funding before the first wheel turns. If it speaks to you, let’s talk.