Health Access for the Least (HEAL)

Program Overview

Reaching Those Left Behind

Health Access for the Least (HEAL) is Faith Aid's grant and partnership program that helps the neediest patients in Sub-Saharan Africa access medical care. Through targeted grants and hospital partnerships, HEAL funds specific programs that address the most urgent, under-resourced medical needs in the region.

HEAL Program

HEAL Every Heart

HEAL Every Heart is Faith Aid's initiative leading the fight against rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Sub-Saharan Africa — covering the cost of life-saving valve surgery for impoverished patients who would otherwise have no way forward.

Rheumatic heart disease is the number one acquired heart disease in people under 25 — and it is treatable. At the Tenwek Cardiothoracic Centre, surgical capacity exists to perform open-heart surgery every week. The barrier is cost. For the most vulnerable patients, HEAL Every Heart closes the gap between what a family can give and what a life-saving surgery costs.

HEAL stands for Health Access for the Least — and HEAL Every Heart exists because no patient should die from a treatable disease simply because they cannot afford care.

Partner: AGC Tenwek Hospital, Kenya

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HEAL Program

Forgotten Faces

Forgotten Faces provides reconstructive surgery for impoverished children living in surgical deserts across Sub-Saharan Africa.

In the surgical deserts of Sub-Saharan Africa, thousands of children live with devastating facial deformities and little hope of treatment. They are the forgotten faces of global health. At Kapsowar Hospital in Kenya, volunteer surgeons are restoring dignity and essential function through life-restoring plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Millions of children across the region lack access to modern surgical care. Conditions such as noma, trauma, tumors, burns, and post-infectious deformities can destroy the mouth and jaw, leaving children unable to eat, speak, or maintain basic oral function. Without treatment, many face lifelong disability, severe malnutrition, social isolation, or death.

Partner: AIC Kapsowar Hospital, Kenya

Forgotten Faces — reconstructive surgery patient

HEAL Program

Malnourished Children

Malnourished Children provides life-saving nutritional treatment and medical care for children suffering from acute malnutrition across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Across Sub-Saharan Africa, acute malnutrition silently devastates the youngest and most vulnerable. Children with severe wasting face weakened immune systems, developmental harm, and death — yet many never reach a clinic capable of treating them. Through a network of Christian mission hospitals, Faith Aid is working to identify, reach, and restore children who are slipping away.

Severe acute malnutrition leaves children dangerously underweight and profoundly vulnerable to infection and organ failure. Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) — a nutrient-dense, ready-to-eat treatment — is the global standard of care for severe acute malnutrition and can be administered without clean water or refrigeration, making it uniquely suited for remote and under-resourced communities. Our partner hospitals serve some of the most isolated populations on the continent, where RUTF and skilled medical care together give wasting children a genuine chance at survival and recovery.

Partners: Multiple hospitals and medical centers across Kenya

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Give to a HEAL Account

Select a hospital below to support impoverished patients accessing life-changing care through Faith Aid's HEAL Accounts.

HEAL Accounts

AGC Tenwek Hospital

HEAL Accounts help the neediest patients in greatest need, access medical care at Tenwek Hospital. Our case coordinators conduct robust assessments so that aid is distributed to those most in need. Each HEAL account has a team on the ground serving and supporting those in need.

HEAL Accounts

AIC Kapsowar Hospital

HEAL Accounts help the neediest patients in greatest need, access medical care at Kapsowar Hospital. Our case coordinator conducts robust assessments so that aid is distributed to those most in need. Each HEAL account has a team on the ground serving and supporting those in need.