Our mission
is to combat maternal and child mortality by providing access to affordable healthcare in underserved communities in rural Africa.
Elvis Ndansi founded Unite for Health with firsthand experience of healthcare access in ‘last mile’ communities.
Elvis grew up in Dumbo, a rural village in NW Cameroon where his mother, who was qualified as a nurse’s aide, was the only medical professional for miles around. Everyone called her ‘docta’. Years later, when he himself was working as a young nurse in a remote village, he witnessed the tragic yet avoidable death of a baby boy.
Elvis understands the problems and loss that lack of access to healthcare brings. And he knows how to formulate solutions. In 2007, he founded Unite for Health Foundation (U4H) specifically to save women and children from dying.
Finding inventive ways to help families thrive.
Unite for Health reaches out in innovative ways to bring maternal healthcare, screenings, and health education to the women who need it the most. We believe in every mother’s right to survive and thrive, and we know that together we can create a happier, healthier, more equitable world.
A conversation between our founder, Elvis Ndansi, and U4H board member, Tucker Robbins. September 20, 2024.
Unite for Health wins CENPA'S prestigious NGO of the Year Award.
“In a world ravaged by poverty, injustice and inequality, organizations like Unite for Health shine brightly as beacons of hope. ”
Unite for Health’s inventive way to teach hygiene has changed women’s lives.
“Misaje Shaa Festival 2024 empowers women, children, transforms lives”
– The Hilltop Mail, Sept 1, 2024
Prizes included cash, fertilizer and agricultural tools, scholarships with school supplies for orphans, and nursing and midwifery scholarships for graduating seniors.
Shey Stella, the overall winner, gets a certificate and a cash prize that will help her pay for her children’s education.
Photos courtesy of Hilltopvoices.
LATEST U4H PROJECTS
Giving pregnant women free ultrasounds.
Our International Women’s Day Maternal & Child Health Program attracted 200 women in Dumbo, a rural village. They learned about prenatal health and family planning. 88% of the 50 woman who were pregnant got their first ever ultrasound, free.
Galvanizing women ‘shaa’-makers.
In Misaje, ‘Shaa’ is a much-loved drink made by women that is traditionally drunk from a shared cup rinsed in a bucket of water, a ritual that can spread cholera, typhoid or tuberculosis. In 2013, Elvis created a festival to help these women in surprising ways.
spreading hope, One Home At A Time.
In collaboration with Bronco Power Boost and Internetbar.org, we distributed Medical & Solar Power Kits to five families in Oku, a rural village of subsistence farmers. With inadequate healthcare and years of no electricity, a light and a thermometer change lives.
helping EVERY BABY get a healthy start.
Every child has the right to a safe, medically supervised delivery. Unite for Health has never turned away a pregnant woman for not being able to pay. IDP or underprivileged, mothers leave our micro-clinics grateful for a free delivery and a healthy newborn.
“Here in the U.S., Elvis Ndansi is one of the few founders of an international nonprofit doing work in Africa that actually comes from Africa. ”
What makes us different.
OUR FOUNDER
Elvis Ndansi, our Founder & President, is an Obama Foundation Scholar as well as a certified medical professional.
maternal & child health
Unite for Health’s mission to combat maternal & infant mortality is especially vital for underprivileged and IDP mothers.
community outreach
We find inventive ways to reach out to women in rural communities who need healthcare the most.
our impact
We never turn anyone away so this underprivileged mother’s baby was delivered safely, completely free of charge.
technology & INNOVATION
Our prototype mini-clinic is designed to bring maternal and prenatal healthcare to villages that lack access to it.
OUR story
Roseline Leh Ndansi, a nurse who was known in Misaje village as ‘docta’, inspired her son, Elvis, to become a nurse too.