Services
Providing Everything You Need
Anchoring community care within a strong health system
Health facilities are the cornerstone of effective maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health care. Skilled delivery, emergency obstetric care, treatment of severe childhood illness, and clinical decision-making all depend on well-functioning health centres and hospitals. Yet for many families living in extreme poverty, distance, transport costs, and delayed referral mean that facilities are often reached too late or not at all. Wandikweza exists to bridge this gap, not by replacing health facilities, but by strengthening their connection to the communities they serve.
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Ending preventable deaths requires more than community outreach alone. It requires skilled facilities linked to clear referral pathways, strong continuity of care before and after facility visits, and trust between communities and the health system. When facilities and communities are disconnected, care becomes reactive and fragmented; when they are intentionally linked, outcomes improve, women arrive earlier, complications are identified sooner, and follow-up is more effective. Wandikweza’s Proactive Doorstep Care model is built on this understanding: facilities and communities are interdependent and both must function together for health systems to succeed.
Services Offered at the Health Facility
Facilities deliver skilled, essential health services that cannot be provided at household level, ensuring continuity of care from the community to the clinic and back home.
Maternal and Newborn Health Services
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Antenatal care (ANC), including routine check-ups and monitoring
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Management of pregnancy-related conditions and complications
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Skilled support for labor and delivery
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Postnatal care for mothers, including monitoring for postpartum complications
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Family planning counseling and services, including postpartum family planning
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Immediate newborn assessment and care
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Management and referral of newborn complications
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Support for early initiation of breastfeeding
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Follow-up care for at-risk newborns referred from the community
Preventive and Primary Health Care
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Health education and counseling
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Routine outpatient services
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Disease prevention and early detection
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Linkages to community-based follow-up through CHWs and Midwives on Wheels
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Receive referrals from the community
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Share information and care plans
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Ensure post-facility follow-up at household level
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Reduce loss to follow-up and improve continuity of care
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​Timely referral to higher-level facilities when required
