About Us

Across the world, caregivers—including but not limited to Community Health Workers (CHWs), promoters, auxiliaries, midwives, and other frontline care providers—are organizing through mutual aid networks, associations, and grassroots systems of care to build healthier and more resilient futures. These caregivers are often the first and last line of support in their communities, providing essential services, emotional care, and continuity across fragile health systems.

Despite their critical role, global health and philanthropic funding systems remain highly concentrated and structurally misaligned with frontline realities. A disproportionate share of resources flows through a small group of international organizations and contractors rather than directly to local actors. As funding passes through multiple administrative layers, it is diluted by overhead costs, fragmented across institutions, and delayed by bureaucratic requirements.

For caregivers on the ground, this results in: limited access to flexible, direct funding; difficulty coordinating and building collective power; economic instability and burnout; and missed opportunities to scale locally rooted solutions.