Hearth
“Health begins where the road ends.”
A world where no mother delivers alone.
We believe geography should not determine destiny. Every village — no matter how far the road runs out — deserves a trained hand, a steady voice, and the medicine that keeps a family whole.
Hearth trains and deploys community nurses into the last-mile. They carry everything in canvas backpacks: vaccine coolers packed with ice, blood pressure cuffs, prenatal vitamins, and the quiet authority of someone who walked three hours because you matter.
14,000+
vaccine doses delivered in 2025
Last-Mile Reach
We go where no clinic van can follow — on foot, by bicycle, through river crossings.
Community-Led
Every nurse is from the villages they serve. They speak the language of trust.
Radical Accountability
Every quarter, donors receive a hand-drawn field dispatch with names, faces, and numbers.
The work, unfiltered.
Every card below is pulled from a real nurse's field ledger. No stock photos. No invented testimonials.
Nurse Adaeze weighs a 3-day-old in Oguta village, January 2026
14,000
vaccine doses
delivered across 12 villages in 2025
“Before Hearth, I timed my contractions by the candle burning down. Now someone comes to me.”
Fatimah O.
Mother of three, Kogi State
Health education session at Igede primary school, Feb 2026
What travels in the backpack
BP cuff · Stethoscope · Vaccine cooler · Prenatal vitamins · ORS sachets · Wound kit · Field ledger
847
prenatal visits
completed in the last 12 months
Volunteer training day in Oji River, March 2026
“I used to manage my father's diabetes by guessing. Now I understand the numbers and what they mean.”
Emmanuel C.
Village health volunteer, Enugu
12 villages
within a 3-hour walk
South-East & North-Central Nigeria
38
trained volunteers
active in the field this season
Diabetes screening for elders, Nsukka region, Dec 2025
Meet the nurses who carry health on their backs.
Adaeze Okonkwo
Community Nurse · Oguta Region
“I walk three hours each way. Some days I carry everything on my back and a baby in my arms. But when I arrive, the village knows health is coming.”
Emmanuel Chukwu
Village Health Volunteer · Nsukka
“I was a farmer. Hearth trained me to read a glucometer, take blood pressure, and know when to call for help. Now I am the first line of care for 200 families.”
Ngozi Eze
Lead Nurse · Kogi State
“I remember the first child I vaccinated — he had never seen a stethoscope. He called it a listening snake. Now he calls me Auntie Nurse.”
Fund a Health Walk.
Every dollar is traceable. Choose what your gift buys — a nurse's walk, a cold vaccine, a trained neighbor.
Secure giving · Tax-deductible · 94¢ of every dollar reaches the field
Join the Letter.
Four times a year, we send a field dispatch — hand-drawn illustrations, a nurse's story, the exact number of vaccines in the cooler that week.
No fundraising asks. Just the field, in your inbox.