Mission, Vision & Values

Institute for Child Healthcare Africa
Modeling Pediatrics for Tomorrow

Mission
To provide evidence-based, compassionate medical care to children through education, research and collaboration with hospitals throughout Africa.

Vision
A continent where all children can thrive through quality healthcare.

Core Values
We strive to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God as we adopt the following core values:

Compassion: Offering medical care with kindness and respect, seeking to both understand and alleviate suffering.
Excellence: Children deserve healthcare that adopts the highest standards of care.
Education: Teaching and mentoring doctors and nurses, investing in families and communities in the care of their children.
Integrity: Practicing honesty with others and ourselves, doing what we say and saying what we do.
Collaboration: We work best when we understand everyone has equal value, listening and learning from each other in our communities.
Equity: Every child deserves quality care regardless of gender, income, tribe, or religion.

Four Foundations: Care + Training

ICHA’s Four Foundations of Neonatal & Pediatric Care and Training

Providing Clinical Care

1. Low-cost, high-impact care of premature and hospitalized newborns in our partner NICUs at:

Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC).
Kivulini Maternity Centre NICU Physician Support.
Potential new hospital relationships ICHA is fostering.

2. Specialty outpatient and inpatient pediatric care through the:

Arusha Pediatric & Maternity Centre (APMC) - a first ever dedicated specialty centre for outpatient care of infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women.
Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) pediatric ward and clinics.

Training Physicians & Nurses

3. Tiny Feet Big Steps (TFBS) Neonatology Conferences uniquely co-training physicians and nurses, with a strong emphasis on innovation, clinical proficiency, and actionable healthcare strategies.

Leading the largest African Neonatology Conference in Arusha, Tanzania.
Expanding to Ethiopia (Dec. 2025).
Exploring expansion opportunities at the request of other countries.
Resourcing medical staff with our Every Breath Counts handbook: a 400-page neonatal care handbook offering evidence-based protocols, drug dosing, and NICU procedures for low-resource settings. It’s been distributed to nearly 250 hospitals across 25 African countries, serving as a key training tool to improve newborn survival.

4. Developing Pediatrics in Africa through Mentorship & Training:

7 Tanzanian doctors and 20 NICU nurses are currently supported by ICHA.
4 doctors in international residency programs (Kenya, South Africa, USA) that ICHA has helped reach this stage of training.
Teaching at Pediatric Association of Tanzania and other venues.