Kenya
Communities Health Africa Trust

Communities Health Africa Trust

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Communities Health Africa Trust (CHAT) is an organization focused on bringing healthcare and family planning to remote, rural communities in Kenya, where there is little to no clinic access.
Utilizing all-terrain vehicles and a nomadic, backpack-wearing team approach to healthcare, CHAT has devised a door-to-door strategy to accessing and supporting the most hard-to-reach and deeply challenged communities.

At the heart of their work is a deep respect for the people they serve—listening first, partnering locally, and building solutions rooted in community knowledge and long-term resilience.
Kenya
Partner Since April, 2026
  • Child Welfare
  • Education
  • Healthcare
www.chatafrica.org
Communities Health
Africa Trust
Promoting healthy, empowered and self-sustainable living among poor and excluded communities in Kenya
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Our team was fortunate to spend a day and night shooting with Rose and her extraordinary CHAT team, witnessing their arrival in a challenging, deeply remote part of Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau, where they immediately set up their tents and got to work.

It was the tender and intimate way in which Rose and the other nurses and physicians on the CHAT team engaged with each patient—as if they were members of their own family—that struck us so deeply.

Capturing this compassionate team of health workers from sunup until sundown—then pack up and head off to another location to help yet another community in dire need—will stick with us forever.
KRF Production Team
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Many people would ask me, “Why are you in this remote setting, in this very poor way of life, when you have all the qualifications to be in a big organization?”

I said, if I don’t do it, who will? It becomes part of our routine. It becomes a part of us.
Rose Kimanzi
Field Director
CHAT
Local community members from different indigenous groups come together for medical support when CHAT sets up camp in their area.
Local community members from different indigenous groups come together for medical support when CHAT sets up camp in their area.
Hundreds of locals—primarily women and children—often travel many kilometers to take advantage of CHAT's medical services.
Hundreds of locals—primarily women and children—often travel many kilometers to take advantage of CHAT's medical services.
CHAT field director Rose Kimanzi treats patients as Kym watches on.
CHAT field director Rose Kimanzi treats patients as Kym watches on.
These 4-wheel vehicles allow the CHAT team to traverse and set up their medical camps in the most rugged, challenging terrain.
These 4-wheel vehicles allow the CHAT team to traverse and set up their medical camps in the most rugged, challenging terrain.
Mothers and small children are often the first to arrive at dawn to receive CHAT's medical services.
Mothers and small children are often the first to arrive at dawn to receive CHAT's medical services.
Traveling in small teams and setting up camp in the center of remote communities helps to engender trust between the CHAT team and locals.
Traveling in small teams and setting up camp in the center of remote communities helps to engender trust between the CHAT team and locals.

Keep The Work Going

The Kym Rapier Foundation is proud to support Communities Health Africa Trust. Your support helps this organization, and the work of other organizations like it, continue to make a real difference in communities around the world that need it most.