AMREF
AMREF is the world’s leading African health development organization. Founded in 1957 with headquarters,
history and feet on the ground in Africa, AMREF empowers the most vulnerable people towards better health.
Working closely with African communities and governments AMREF’s projects fight disease, strengthen health
systems and train health workers. To date AMREF has trained more than 500,000 health workers reaching
nearly 60 million people across Africa every year.
Sub-Saharan African countries have some of the lowest rates of access to clean water - nearly 40% of families
go without. Working with diverse communities like nomadic populations in Ethiopia, urban slum dwellers in
Nairobi and school children in Uganda, AMREF’s water and sanitation projects have improved health for thousands
of people and have been replicated around the world.
For example, AMREF’s Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education (PHASE) program is saving lives by teaching
children the importance of hand washing and providing clean water sources. In Uganda’s Soroti district AMREF has
provided 150 schools with new hand-washing facilities, immunizations and life-saving health education. The Kenyan
Ministry of health has incorporated PHASE into its national school curriculum and PHASE has been successfully
implemented in eight other countries around the world.
For more information about AMREF and the work they do, visit http://canada.amref.org
