Services

Empowering communities with lifetime essential health initiatives including; Community Health Education and Awareness(CHEA), Community Hygiene & Risk Reduction (CHHRR), Commmunity Infection Prevention (CIP) and ensuring sustainable access to Diagnostic through mobile Healthcare Services.

We aim to improve the health outcomes of Zambian communities through health interventions that reflect or emerge from local community ideas, initiatives, and innovations, targeting key specific areas such as Health Innovations, Advocacy & Health Promotion, Disease prevention and detection, Health Research, Sexual Reproductive Health & girl child Education (SRHE), RMNCHAH, NCDs, NTDs, and Menstrual Health Promotion, Women and Men health through robust Community engagement & Advocacy.

We work with and target low income urban and rural communities specially for and with Adolescent and Young People, Women and the marginalized groups including; people leaving with disability and the elderly.

As a community-based organization, SiHDZ operates at the nexus of Science, Technology, and Community-driven solutions for Sustainable Development.

We also define community development as a dynamic process in which members of a community come together to identify shared problems and collectively generate solutions.

This process begins with individual or small group initiatives, which then expand to include larger groups in the community. As the scope of these solutions grow, so too does the involvement of the Communities, ensuring that the solutions are homegrown, inclusive, and sustainable.

As SiHDZ, we understand that community development is an evolving journey. Our role is to create platforms, systems and opportunities that identify, promote and support local community socioeconomic ideas, initiatives, and innovations.

We empower communities to take ownership of their development process and actively contribute to solutions to the challenges they face. 

It is not true that, local Communities lack ideas initiatives nor innovations that are solutions to their locally faced community challenges, such that until foreign ideas are imported, that's when solutions are found, NO!

Locals may lack financial or other forms of resources, including lacking knowledge on modernized methodologies/Models of implementation, But they definitely know both the challenge and the potential solution to the challenge including the alternative most times. 

Therefore, our approach to Community Engagement and during Activity implementation, always considers Community Involvement from needs assessment, during planning, implementation and post; implementation activities.

In order to promote sustainably Healthy and Developed Communities, we also focus on cross cutting matters that affect environmental and human flourishing.  Our team also innovate for Social, economic, capacity building and humanitarian action.

Social Inclusion, Sexual Reproductive Health Education, Gender Equality, Violence and Gender Based Violence, Environmental Protection Eco-literacy and Community Hygiene & Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Communicable, Non-communicable and Neglected Tropic Diseases, Policy and Good Governance, Technology and Al.

As well as Advocacy for Community Involvement in order to increase citizen participation in National matters and Transparency and accountability in management of public resources.

In response to the need for accessible healthcare, we implemented community health programs that provided medical check-ups and health education to underprivileged areas. Our efforts helped over 500 families gain awareness about preventive health practices and access essential medical services.

We organized a series of workshops aimed at equipping young people with essential life and professional skills. These workshops covered topics like leadership, entrepreneurship, and digital literacy, helping participants gain the confidence and knowledge needed to pursue personal and professional goals.

To support local farmers, we developed training programs focused on sustainable agricultural practices. These programs taught modern techniques in crop rotation, soil conservation, and natural pest management, resulting in increased yields and improved livelihoods for over 200 farming households.