Amani Global Works has been featured in the news! Please click on the images below to read the articles. The Network Journal The feature article describes the inception and missions of Amani Global Works. It also discusses the ways Amani Global Works has made a…
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DARIEN, Conn. – Working 6,000 miles from home with a crew that didn’t speak his language, Darien teen Clay Baxter built a canoe this summer that will help thousands on the small African island of Idjwi receive medical attention. “I had my whole summer planned…
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The AGW Nutrition Program was launched in 2011 in order to provide nutrition protein supplements to the most critically ill and malnourished children in the community. Every morning on the northern part of Idjwi island, Jacqueline and Rolande, the clinic “mothers” arrive by 6:45am and…
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Until July, 2011, Idjwi’s island did not have any means of transportation for emergency situations such as critically ill patients or prenatal emergencies. Now, due to the masterminds of Dr. Sebisaho and 16-year-old Clay Baxter, Idjwi has their first water ambulance. They worked endlessly for…
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On Africa’s long-forsaken Idjwi island, Harvard School Of Public Health (HSPH) students are building a health care system from the ground up. Lake Kivu sits between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its serene waves giving little hint of the conflicts that have…
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Students reach across different Harvard schools to explore and help uncharted territory In arguably the world’s poorest country, on an island four times the size of Manhattan, exists a population of 250,000 people invisible to society and, in a sense, forgotten. This island—Idjwi—is a six-hour…
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Since this summer, when I first wrote about Dr. Jacques Sebisaho and his team as they prepared to travel to Idjwi with the mission of filling the Island’s healthcare void, the facts on the island remain unchanged. There are still upwards of 200,000 vulnerable people…
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If you sign on to the newborn Amani Global Works website, you will be greeted with a Congolese Proverb: “He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.” But what is it that is going to transform this proverb from an…
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We have trained 50 Community Health Workers, serving as a link between communities and the health clinic and have directly provided a stable source of income to 8 households (those who work for the clinic) and indirectly to many others.
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With the help of Northern Idjwi’s King, Katonda was chosen as the location of AGW’s first health clinic that launched in December 2010. Since the opening, the clinic has treated more than 5,000 patients and continues to see more than 100 patients on a daily…
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