Our Impact
Advancing Child Healthcare in Africa
We provide compassionate, high‑quality clinical care in pediatrics and neonatology, and we equip doctors and nurses with the skills and knowledge to achieve excellence. This training does more than improve individual practice — it sparks exponential development of neonatology across the continent, multiplying expertise, strengthening systems, and ensuring that more newborns survive and thrive.
Tanzanian NICU Impact
Education and Training Impact
In total, our Tiny Feet, Big Steps Neonatology Conference has trained: 657 Healthcare Professionals representing 159 hospitals from 20 African countries and 7 non-African countries.
We provide compassionate, high‑quality clinical care in pediatrics and neonatology, and we equip doctors and nurses with the skills and knowledge to achieve excellence. This training does more than improve individual practice — it sparks exponential development of neonatology across the continent, multiplying expertise, strengthening systems, and ensuring that more newborns survive and thrive.
Tanzanian NICU Impact
- We have changed the narrative that small, sick babies rarely survive in Africa. Our outcomes demonstrated that even the smallest baby can survive and thrive. In our Tanzanian NICU, we achieved a 92% adjusted survival rate among nearly 3,000 small and premature babies.
- Specifically, the survival of preterm babies weighing <1000 grams (2.2lbs) and at least 26 weeks gestation increased by 4-fold to 85%.
- These outcomes were published in an article called “Every breath counts: Lessons learned in developing a training NICU in Northern Tanzania” in the journal Frontier in Pediatrics.
Education and Training Impact
In total, our Tiny Feet, Big Steps Neonatology Conference has trained: 657 Healthcare Professionals representing 159 hospitals from 20 African countries and 7 non-African countries.
Growth of our Tiny Feet, Big Steps Conferences
Conferences Impact (2024 Participants)
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