Our mother’s education program gives mothers, fathers, and other family members the knowledge they need to keep their children healthy.
Reach Everyone, No Matter How Remote
Our program makes learning accessible to just about anyone, anytime, anyplace. Traditional, in-person training leaves too many people behind. It is resource-intensive, doesn’t happen often enough, and when it does, it often doesn’t reach the people who need training most. Goal4.org uses short videos so anyone with a smartphone, tablet, or a DVD player can deliver content to wherever learners are – where they live or where they gather – clinic waiting rooms, women’s group meetings, church events, village meetings, and even hair salons.
Quality Content for Every Learner
Video lessons ensure that every learner gets the same high-quality content every time. Typically, when health education is taken to rural areas, it is delivered by groups of trainers who are several times removed from the subject experts. Trainers train trainers who train other trainers and so on. By the time it gets to rural learners the content is delivered by trainers with varying levels of understanding and varying levels of teaching skill. By using video, learners get consistently high-quality content no matter how or by whom it is delivered. The videos we use are brief – between 5 – 10 minutes long, are created by experts, and contain engaging, visual content that is easy to understand. The videos are created by Global Health Media Project, an amazing organization that specializes in health content for mothers and health workers in developing countries. Their videos are free to download for non-commercial use.
The content that we are currently delivering in Sega:
- Newborn Care
- Child Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Coronavirus
Always Available
The nature of video makes it endlessly scalable. For people who need (and crave) the knowledge, having a delivery network that makes it available to them again and again over time is invaluable and literally life-changing.
Janerose is a trained Community Health Volunteer, a counsellor, and a farmer. She joined the Sega health volunteer team in 1988 and is currently responsible for 134 households, going door-to-door with health education and support aimed at preventing common illnesses.
Monica Akinyi Odongo is the head of Sega’s public health facility, Sega Dispensary. She is a registered nurse whose broad responsibilities at the Dispensary include administration of the facility, managing the staff, and treating patients.
Rabin is the nursing officer in charge Sega Dispensary, the only public (free) health facility in Sega. He manages the facility, coordinates all health services, sees patients, and is responsible for community health. He was recruited to Sega to help develop and grow the Dispensary’s maternity service, including promoting the service to mothers in the community. In his past job, at a similar small, rural dispensary, he did just that – improved the maternity services and influenced a shift in the number of women who give birth at the health facility rather than at home. He is a skilled mentor, manager, and communicator.
Albert has worked in education throughout his professional career. He began as a classroom teacher, later rose to the position of headmaster, then Approved Graduate Teacher. He went on to become an inspector of schools in Uganda and Kenya. He was born and raised in western Kenya where now, in retirement, he dedicates his time and skills to supporting local schools and community organizations.
Colm is a technical project manager on Google’s robotics team. Throughout his career, he has specialized in large-scale, multi-national telecommunications projects, in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. At Inveneo, a non-profit social enterprise that delivers low-powered networks to rural Africa, Colm participated in the post-earthquake response effort in Haiti, supporting the field team as they set up emergency communications for first-responders in the field. Prior to a decade managing non-profit projects, Colm managed global telecommunications projects for Ericsson in Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Botswana, Macau, Canada, and the USA. He helped establish Ericsson’s US presence, building the technical support organization and managing the build-out of Ericsson’s US network.
