Annually the 5th of May marks an International Day of Celebration and honour for midwives. We at Higherlife Foundation join the rest of the world in celebrating the phenomenal work done by the men and women who have devoted their time to the care of mothers and their newborns.  Midwives are the frontline caregivers and ...

“Who cares about toilets? 3.6 billion people do. Because they don’t have one that works properly!”    With more than 600million people practicing open defecation due to the lack of access to toilets this world toilet day could not be more important. Today Higherlife Foundation joins the rest of the world in raising awareness on the issue of sustainable sanitation ...

Following Zimbabwe’s most recent cholera outbreak in 2018, at the instruction of President Mnangagwa, the Cholera Elimination Secretariat (CES) was established by Higherlife Foundation to provide catalytic support to the National Taskforce on Cholera Elimination. Recently the CES engaged the Health Parliamentary Portfolio Committee led by Hon Ruth Labode, as part of its efforts to ...

Every year an estimated 15million babies worldwide are born preterm and this number is rising. Bringing it home, preterm birth complications are one of the leading causes of neonatal (newborns) deaths in Zimbabwe with the country having a Neonatal Mortality Rate of 32 deaths per 1000 live births.  Born before their time, premature babies require intensive medical care and special equipment that ...

On Monday, 26 July 2020, eight Caesarean Section operations were performed at Zimbabwe’s Harare Central Hospital. Of these eight deliveries, seven babies were stillborn, and only one survived. For two weeks in December 2019, a 72-year-old self-taught midwife delivered over 250 infants in her small apartment, with no running water, in the poor suburb of Mbare in ...

Through a generous investment from ELMA Philanthropies, Higherlife Foundation this December commenced the handover of maternal health medical equipment to seven hospitals in Zimbabwe. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the provision of essential maternal and neonatal health services and severely eroded the steady gains that Zimbabwe had made in improving mortality rates. Over the next ...

“Our common enemy is #COVID19, but our enemy is also an infodemic of misinformation.” António Guterres UN Secretary-General With the abundance of misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an emergence of what is being called the COVID-19-related infodemic – a mixture of facts, rumours and untruths. To help decipher this landscape and provide critical ...