Strengthening IT Capacity for Health and Education

Description

This project responds to two priorities identified by the community: strengthening local health systems and advancing educational development. It restores and improves digital infrastructure across a school computer lab serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, a health center, and two health posts. Although the health center has solar panels, its battery, regulator, and inverter no longer function, leaving its digital systems unusable. The two health posts have no power at all, preventing staff from completing essential tasks. The school’s computer lab, once serving 26 students at a time, has been non-operational since 2022 due to a failed inverter.

The project seeks to achieve three core objectives: establishing a recurring health course that uses digital tools to promote healthy living and awareness of preventable illness; restoring and expanding digital capabilities for the school, health center, and health posts; and creating sustainable, community-based revenue sources to support future equipment upkeep and training. Expected outcomes include increased visitation and vaccination rates at the health center, improved digital literacy for students and health workers, and more efficient operations across all facilities.

Knowledge and skills strengthening in computer literacy for students and health workers is integrated throughout the project. A formal partnership between the school and the health center will ensure shared accountability, long-term cooperation, and a replicable model for sustaining digital infrastructure in rural community development.