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private:lwalacommunityalliance-2
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1522082
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May 29th, 2019 12:00AM
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Lwala Community Alliance
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547
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88.00
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Nonprofit Organization Management
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May 29th, 2019 02:30PM
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May 29th, 2019 02:30PM
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Lwala is a community-led innovator and non-profit operating in rural Kenya, proving that when communities lead, change is lasting and drastic. It was founded by a group of community members facing the dual crisis of HIV and maternal mortality, who organized to build their region’s first health clinic and then engaged the research prowess of Vanderbilt University to rigorously measure its interventions. Today, Lwala is much more than a hospital; it is a community-led health model making dramatic improvements in maternal and child health, including a 64% reduction in child mortality, a 97% facility delivery rate, and a 300% increase in contraceptive uptake.The success of Lwala’s community-led health model has driven us to reject the notion that grassroots health initiatives are not scalable. Indeed, these local interventions can transform systems of inequity by leveraging the latent capacity of vulnerable communities. Because of this, we believe bottom-up solutions are uniquely positioned for scale.
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HIV, Healthcare, International Development, Economic Development, maternal health
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2525 West End Ave
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Nashville
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TN
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Lwala Community Alliance
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private:lwalacommunityalliance-2
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1522082
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Nov 7th, 2017 12:00AM
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Lwala Community Alliance
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73.00
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International Affairs
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Nov 7th, 2017 04:23PM
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Lwala Community Alliance is a Kenyan founded health, education and development agency. The various programs in healthcare, education, and micro- enterprise have rapidly grown since 2007 to serve a population of more than 20,000 people in rural, Migori County, Kenya. Lwala Community Alliance is geographically focused in the Lake Victoria region because the location is known for its challenges. For example, the HIV prevalence rates in Migori County are triple the national average for Kenya. At the same time, the work has importance well beyond Migori County. By documenting results and processes and sharing these publicly and through collaboration with peer organizations, Lwala fosters transferability to other similar settings. Lwala's programming is holistic, with projects and staff in education, clinical care, public health outreach, and economic development. This fits the stated vision for “wholeness of life in Lwala and beyond.” Since poverty is multi-dimensional, creating wholeness demands a multi-dimensional approach to development. In short, Lwala aims to be a Kenyan innovator, focused on community-based change in a region known for its acute development needs and sharing lessons and results from this region to promote change in rural Africa more generally.
Lwala has evolved significantly in the last 7 years, moving from grass-roots invention, to start-up, and into adolescence. The growth of core programming has been closely linked to growth in financial and staffing resources. Lwala’s annual budget has tripled (from $421,609 in 2009 to $1,325,287 in 2014) and Lwala’s staff has increased significantly (from less than 25 in 2009 to more than 75 full time staff and 90 part-time staff in 2014). These resources have allowed the organization to increase outputs by providing many more patient encounters (32,390 in 2013), reaching more students (6,000 in 2013), and training thousands of local people in new skills.
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Lwala Community Alliance
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private:lwalacommunityalliance-2
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1522082
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Nov 1st, 2017 12:00AM
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Lwala Community Alliance
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408
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International Affairs
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Nov 1st, 2017 04:07AM
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Nov 1st, 2017 04:07AM
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Lwala Community Alliance is a Kenyan founded health, education and development agency. The various programs in healthcare, education, and micro- enterprise have rapidly grown since 2007 to serve a population of more than 20,000 people in rural, Migori County, Kenya. Lwala Community Alliance is geographically focused in the Lake Victoria region because the location is known for its challenges. For example, the HIV prevalence rates in Migori County are triple the national average for Kenya. At the same time, the work has importance well beyond Migori County. By documenting results and processes and sharing these publicly and through collaboration with peer organizations, Lwala fosters transferability to other similar settings. Lwala's programming is holistic, with projects and staff in education, clinical care, public health outreach, and economic development. This fits the stated vision for “wholeness of life in Lwala and beyond.” Since poverty is multi-dimensional, creating wholeness demands a multi-dimensional approach to development. In short, Lwala aims to be a Kenyan innovator, focused on community-based change in a region known for its acute development needs and sharing lessons and results from this region to promote change in rural Africa more generally.
Lwala has evolved significantly in the last 7 years, moving from grass-roots invention, to start-up, and into adolescence. The growth of core programming has been closely linked to growth in financial and staffing resources. Lwala’s annual budget has tripled (from $421,609 in 2009 to $1,325,287 in 2014) and Lwala’s staff has increased significantly (from less than 25 in 2009 to more than 75 full time staff and 90 part-time staff in 2014). These resources have allowed the organization to increase outputs by providing many more patient encounters (32,390 in 2013), reaching more students (6,000 in 2013), and training thousands of local people in new skills.
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