Vision, Mission & Values

Institute for Child Healthcare Africa

Vision - Every Child Thrives

A continent where all children can thrive through quality healthcare.

Mission

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

We are advancing child healthcare in Africa by:

Saving Lives: We work to reduce preventable newborn and child deaths by improving access to high-quality, evidence-based healthcare.
Strengthening Care: We equip hospitals and healthcare professionals with the training, mentorship, and resources needed to provide exceptional neonatal and pediatric care.
Shaping Leaders: We invest in African physicians, nurses, and healthcare leaders who will train others, advance best practices, and drive lasting change in their communities.

Values

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

Excellence: Children deserve healthcare that adopts the highest standards of care.
Compassion: Offering medical care with kindness and respect, seeking to both understand and alleviate suffering.
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.

Working Together

1. Delivering low-cost, high impact neonatology services of premature and hospitalized newborns in our partner NICUs:

Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) NICU.
Kivulini Hospital / Maternity Africa NICU (providing ICHA physicians).
Potential new hospital relationships ICHA is fostering.

2. Providing 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.

3. Mentoring doctors and nurses in pediatrics

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.

4. Training NICU physicians & nurses through Tiny Feet Big Steps (TFBS) Neonatology Conferences to care for premature and critically ill babies.

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.
Expanded to Ethiopia, Dec. 2025; Uganda in 2026.
Resourcing medical staff with our Every Breath Counts Manual of Neonatal Care & Drug Doses, 3rd Ed: a 440-page neonatal care handbook offering evidence-based protocols, drug dosing, and NICU procedures for low-resource settings. It’s been distributed to over 250 hospitals across 25 African countries, serving as a key training tool to improve newborn survival.