Community Healthcare

Over the years, Links International has seen thousands of lives changed and hundreds of communities transformed.

It’s come about through the training our teams have done, empowering community influencers in healthcare. Our training is open to the whole community, but we have found that training a core team of committed community influencers to become voluntary healthcare workers is the best approach. Links helps this team discover how they can bring positive change to the key issues their community is facing. Where appropriate, we enhance the training of existing healthcare professionals.

Links’ healthcare training is sustainable. On average, once we’ve completed five training trips, communities are not only healthier but also able to independently develop their own healthcare strategies and to spread the word to others.

We primarily teach our SHINE initiative: SANITATION is an ongoing problem that affects approximately 2.3 billion people in the world. Our training helps educate communities about safe water and ways to prevent water-born illnesses such as malaria. HYGIENE is a serious and dangerous issue affecting millions. Simple hygiene education can help save lives. We seek to provide training of individuals and communities to help reduce the risk of hygiene-related illnesses and death from such diseases as Malaria, Typhoid, HIV/AIDS, other STDs, and more illnesses due to hygiene-related issues. IMMUNIZATIONS are desperately needed around the world. A simple vaccine could save lives and prevent the spread of illness in impoverished countries. NUTRITION education is of the utmost importance in the loves of the people we serve across the world. Awareness and education, as well as, resources could help stop disease and death. EMPOWERMENT can go a long way in helping prevent death due to sanitation, immunization, hygiene & nutrition-related deaths.

With dignity and education, we can provide the necessary training and tools needed to break this cycle of poverty and preventable death. Can you help us stop this global crisis?