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A father and son transport fresh produce in a long canoe on a river in Papua New Guinea. With Papua New Guinea written in a white box in the bottom left-hand corner.Two Zimbabwean huts together in a lush green landscape. With Zimbabwe written in a green box in the bottom left-hand corner.Ladies carry buckets of sand on their head in Uganda. Uganda is written in a yellow square in the left bottom corner.
Papua New Guinea
Red play symbolA large group of people sit on a boat in a river in Papua New Guinea.
Like many developing nations, Papua New Guinea faces challenges to increase the capacity, efficiency and resilience of their health system. At village level, people struggle daily to access quality health services and clean water.

How community health workers make a difference
We empower community health workers with the training needed to provide essential medical care.
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In-Person Training
Since 2019, we’ve delivered refresher training courses for community health workers in East Sepik Province. At the request of local health authorities and the health workers themselves, we plan to do more training and - importantly - training of trainers.

Remote Training – Pilot Program
To increase access to vital training, in 2022 we delivered self-paced training packages to community health workers in 12 remote villages in East Sepik Province. These packs contain a 16-module training manual, MP3 player with audio lessons, and some diagnostic equipment. To further equip and support these health workers, we connect them with volunteer health workers here in Western Australia.

What else are we doing to help?

FIGHTING CERVICAL CANCER
We want to help reduce the high cervical cancer rates in Papua New Guinea. We’re developing partnerships both there and across Australia to provide cervical cancer education, screening, and same-day treatment for women throughout the East Sepik Province.
Cosmos team members embrace new friends from Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea flag blowing in wind against a blue sky.
Wewak hospital old surgery ward in Papua New Guinea.
Beautiful red cloudy sunset against blue sky in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos CEO Jason giving the thumbs up sign on a flight in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members speak to community members in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members take Papua New Guinean nurses through refresher workbook.
Cosmos team members with Papua New Guinean contact.
Wood and grass house on stilts beside a river in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members talk to a worker beside his vehicle from Wewak General Hospital in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member Erin teaching community health workers in Papua New Guinea.
Happy community health nurses from Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member gives a nurse some hands-on training in Papua New Guinea.
Boats docking on the side of the river in Yamen, Papua New Guinea.
The Gavamas Lakes Village community wave goodbye in front of a small sea plane with Cosmos team members in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members building relationships with Avatip Village members in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos CEO Jason showing Papua New Guinean healthcare workers supplies.
Richard from Oum in front of the supply closet in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member treats a young child with his mother and brother in Papua New Guinea.
Healthcare workers with the villagers of Mesca in Papua New Guinea.
Healthcare workers receive training packs in Omu village Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member Darryn looks on as villagers look at a sea plane in Kandunanum, Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member Darryn with Sister Anna director of Catholic Health Services in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member Darryn teaching healthcare workers in Wewak Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members explain the education packages to healthcare workers in Mesca Village Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team members with community healthcare workers in Omu Village, Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team member, village leaders and community healthcare workers in front of a sea plane in Avatip Papua New Guinea.
A community healthcare worker receives her certificate of training from Cosmos CEO Jason in Papua New Guinea.
Cosmos team workers discuss flight plan with the Samaritan Aviation Team in Papua New Guinea.
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Zimbabwe
Red play symbolMaria teaches a group of locals in a wooden shelter in Zimbabwe.
OUR PARTNER – SIZOLWETHU HEALTH TRUST
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How Sizolwethu Health Trust makes a difference
Our partner Sizolwethu provides vital long-term care to people in underprivileged rural communities. How? Through health education, mobile clinical services, specialist wound care, and community development strategies.

MOBILE HEALTH CLINICS
Dedicated nurses travel up to 270km from Buluwayo to provide vital health services to various rural communities. Impacting thousands of people each and every month, these pop up clinics are often the only accessible point of care for those with acute and chronic illnesses.

SPECIALIST WOUND CLINIC
This low-cost clinic in Bulawayo helps hundreds of people every month who ordinarily wouldn’t be able to afford treatment for their wounds. What’s more, the clinic empowers Zimbabwean nurses to learn high level skills to treat complex wounds from a trainer with extensive experience in specialist wound management. This has helped make the clinic the referral point for local doctors.
Bulawayo Volunteers smile and hug each other in Zimbabwe.
BOREHOLE REHABILITATION
In 2021, 23 young people from rural communities trained in borehole maintenance and repair. Since then, they’ve restored water sources for thousands of people. Each community set up a savings plan, so they now have funds to cover future breakdowns. What’s more, the technicians were empowered with skills and the ability to earn an income.

SCHOOL SANITATION
When 4-5 year old children were integrated into mainstream primary schools a few years ago, they often struggled to use toilets built for bigger children. In 2021, the Sizolwethu School Sanitation Project saw, heard, and solved the problem. They provided a safer alternative by designing and installing 40 small-sized toilets across 20 schools in Matabeleland South. They also taught health and hygiene lessons to the children to build a safer and healthier learning environment.
Workers repairing a water borehole in Zimbabwe.
Trees uprooted and roads washed away. Zimbabweans stand with umbrellas to access the damage of the cyclone.
Chicken and goat working towards each other near a hut in a Zimbabwean village.
Healthcare workers register and assess patients in small clinic in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwean hut behind a stick fence.
Cosmos CEO Jason and Sizolwethu Health Trust Director Shelta, work together in Zimbabwe.
A nurse treats a baby's wound in Zimbabwe.
Happy people learn to knit baby beanies in Zimbabwe.
A man in hi-vis addresses a crowd in Zimbabwe.
A woman brings a sick man to a clinic on a wheelbarrow in Zimbabwe.
Cosmos Team member Doctor Darren cares for a HIV patient in Zimbabwe.
Patients line up outside a mobile clinic in Zimbabwe.
Mother and child treated by healthcare workers wearing full PPE at Killarney Clinic.
Zimbabwean chameleon on tree branch.
A Cosmos team member teaches sewing skills to a group of Zimbabweans.
Sizolwethu Health Trust Director Shelta, shows a group of school children photos, on her mobile phone in Zimbabwe.
Three happy Zimbabwean people wearing Australian flag hats.
Two Zimbabwean huts together in a lush green landscape.
Health workers treat a mother and baby in a mobile outdoor clinic in Zimbabwe.
School children in green uniforms get clean water from a borehole pump in Zimbabwe.
Two Zimbabwean women practice their knitting lessons.
Combined team photo at Fort Rixon, Zimbabwe.
Group of Zimbabwean ladies display their certificates in knitting.
Team photo from Zimbabwe.
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A nurse takes a woman's blood pressure while one of the Cosmos Team members records the data in Zimbabwe.
A Sizolwethu Health Trust worker instructs a group of Zimbabweans in Helth Education.
Several blue tents arranged together with tables and chairs inside, hold health workers and patients at a mobile clinic in Zimbabwe.
Sizolwethu Health Trust Director Shelta holds up and smiles at a cute baby in Zimbabwe.
Trees poke through brown coloured water showing the impact of the cyclone in Zimbabwe.
Combined team photo in Zimbabwe.
Mother sits on a hospital bed with her son, who is all smiles next to his walker, in Zimbabwe.
A young boy surveys the damage of his crumpled house, after the cyclone in Zimbabwe.
A Sizolwethu Health Trust nurse and a Cosmos team member embrace, in Zimbabwe.
A man stands on the edge of a road cut in half by flood waters from the cyclone in Zimbabwe.
Dr Darryn working on a patient's foot.
Maria nurses a patient, while other patients wait their turn.
Healthcare workers assess a mother and her child in a mobile Covid clinic in Zimbabwe.
Two Cosmos team members smile and give thumbs up to the camera in Zimbabwe.
A dam in Zimbabwe filled to the highest level with water.
Sister Maliki treating a Zimbabwean man at Killarney clinic.
Zimbabweans line up under a tree for large plastic water containers.
Blue plastic sheeting separates patients at a rural clinic in Zimbabwe.
Sizolwethu Health Trust Director Shelta consults with a member of the community in Zimbabwe.
Cosmos team member smiles as she holds cute smiling baby in Zimbabwe.
Maria teaches a group of locals in a wooden shelter in Zimbabwe.
Gloria comforts a little girl in Zimbabwe.
Cosmos team member prays with a Zimbabwean man.
Cosmos team member shows a Nurse how to take blood pressure on a patient in Zimbabwe.
Cosmos team member cares for a patient in Zimbabwe.
Two four-wheel drive vehicles carrying the mobile clinic are parked outside Nyosani community Hall in Zimbabwe.
A doctor listens to a patient's breathing through her back with a stethoscope in a Zimbabwe clinic.
A lady and her son stand outside their small rustic house with green tarp over the top in Zimbabwe.
A Cosmos team member gives spiritual support to a man from a Zimbabwean community
Round orange/yellow sun poking through a black outlined tree at sunset in Zimbabwe.
Cosmos team member Deb smiling with a patient in Zimbabwe.
Patient with a Goitre on neck in Zimbabwe.
A young boy shows his burns on his chest and arm in Zimbabwe.
A Cosmos team member gives health advice to a crowd waiting to see the doctor in Zimbabwe.
A man and a women look out to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. In black and white.
Zimbabwean Blue Wildebeest on grass plain.
Cosmos Nurse smiles as she treats a Zimbabwean mother and her baby girl in gorgeous pink hats.
Cosmos' Dr cliff at work on a patient's foot in Zimbabwe.
A group of people wait near a bus stranded in flood waters from the cyclone in Zimbabwe.
Smiling Cosmos team members in a van in Zimbabwe.
Family of Elephant drink at edge of water hole in Zimbabwe.
A mother holds her smiling son who has been treated for burn to his face in Zimbabwe.
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Uganda
Red play symbolMaria teaches a group of locals in a wooden shelter in Zimbabwe.
Healthcare worker Veronica on the phone in Uganda.
Healthcare worker Joanna on the phone in Uganda.
Healthcare worker Cate on the phone while eating breakfast in Uganda.
Healthcare worker Jazzy on the phone while working on the computer in Uganda.
Maria Maliki smiles in Zimbabwe.
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OUR PARTNER – JENGA UGANDA
jengauganda.org

How jenga Uganda makes a difference
Our partner JENGA Uganda is a dynamic community development organisation. Through a diverse range of sustainable projects, they equip Ugandans to meet their own needs, forever changing their communities.

What else are we doing to help?

COSMOS CONNECT
When Covid-19 isolated people across the world, we saw a need to connect, support and encourage health professionals in our network. We pair Australian and Zimbabwean health professionals with health workers in Uganda to support and pray for one another through life’s challenges.
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