CONNECT PROGRAM AREA

Child Health Campaigns

Door-to-door delivery of high-impact health services to every child under five, verified visit by visit and paid only for what’s confirmed.

INSIDE A CHILD HEALTH CAMPAIGN

What is involved in a Child Health Campaign?

A Child Health Campaign is a coordinated push where Frontline Workers move household-to-household across a defined area, delivering a bundle of high-impact services to every child under five they reach. Every service is logged, photographed, and independently verified before payment.

Service 1

Vitamin A Supplementation

Vitamin A is one of the cheapest ways to save a child’s life: roughly $1 per capsule, with an estimated 4-12% reduction in under-five mortality. The hard part isn’t the capsule. It’s reaching the children. That’s what Connect campaigns are built to do.

Source: GiveWell ↗
Service 2

Deworming

Albendazole or Mebendazole for children with soil-transmitted helminth exposure. Routine deworming improves nutritional status, school attendance, and growth in high-prevalence areas.

Service 3

Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS)

Distribution and caregiver coaching on ORS, one of the highest-impact, lowest-cost diarrhea responses in low-resource settings.

Service 4

Malnutrition Screening

Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) measurement and visual assessment for wasting. Children with red or yellow readings are referred into the local treatment pathway. Data flows back to inform the next campaign cycle.

Service 5

Immunization Promotion

Caregiver counseling on routine immunization, with referral to the nearest catch-up site. Several partners independently mobilized faith and community leaders to drive coverage.

Child Health Campaigns
At a glance

Stats
$1.70
Per verified visit
1M+
Verified visits
9
Countries
Countries
Central African Republic · DR Congo · Kenya · Liberia · Nigeria · Sierra Leone · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia
Funders
GiveWell ↗ · Founders Pledge · Gavi
PROGRAM AREA IN ACTION

Delivering Child Health Services in Kenya.

Frontline Workers from Kikapu Gardens, a Locally Led Organization in Kenya, walk through their day delivering Child Health Campaign services with Connect. Trained workers visit households door-to-door, providing vitamin A, deworming, and malnutrition screening to children under five.

Hear from the organization’s staff, the workers themselves, and the families whose children received care.

Connect · Kenya · Kikapu GardensWatch
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED

The numbers behind Child Health Campaigns

Child Health Campaign is the program where most of Connect’s methodology was first validated. A few of the published findings:

ProgramChild Health Campaign
ActivityPay
SourceFounders Pledge Final Report

Total cost per verified visit fell 22%, from $2.20 to $1.70, as the program scaled.

That figure is Connect’s all-in cost per visit, including commodities, LLO payments, setup, and product cost. The biggest driver of the drop was setup costs falling from ~$0.40 to ~$0.10 per visit as we moved past early-stage inefficiencies. We report cost-per-verified-outcome rather than cost-per-worker-trained because it’s the number that actually matters.

ProgramChild Health Campaign
ActivityDeliver
SourceFounders Pledge Final Report

Pre-vetting didn’t predict performance. So we started contracting small.

Past reputation, team size, references, none of it told us if a partner organization would actually deliver. So we contracted small first. Of 37 partners, 24 ran trial runs. 10 underperformed. 3 were selected to scale based on their performance.

ProgramChild Health Campaign
ActivityDeliver
SourceStage 2 Report

5 of 7 partner organizations leveraged religious leaders for vaccine outreach before we asked.

Locally Led Organizations independently mobilized imams, pastors, village elders, and community-recommended Frontline Workers. The platform didn’t teach this, they already knew.

See the Child Health Campaign Insights →
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Interested in supporting Child Health Campaigns?

Let’s build one together, starting with your desired geography and budget. We’ll come back with a delivery plan, a cost-per-verified-visit estimate, and a list of frontline organizations to run with.

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