With just 1.55 healthcare professionals per 1,000 people, Sub-Saharan Africa faces a severe workforce shortage that contributes to persistently high child and maternal mortality rates. While community health systems offer an affordable, proven alternative to facility-based care, they have historically been under-resourced and inconsistently implemented, limiting their impact. Founded in 2007, Living Goods empowers community health workers with digital tools to provide on-demand care, improving access to quality services for families in need. Living Goods partners with governments to ensure health workers have access to digital technology and medical treatments and are effectively supervised and compensated to deliver high quality and cost-effective services.
We partner with Living as part of LGT Venture Philanthropy’s healthcare strategy, which focuses on models that design, scale, and sustain digitally empowered solutions for high-quality primary healthcare in underserved communities, while building the capacity of governments to be the primary funders and implementers of community health systems at scale. Our engagement with Living Goods is focused on three areas:
In 2025, Living Goods supported 9,400 CHWs reaching 4.5 million people across Kenya, Uganda and Burkina Faso, leveraging significant government co-financing.
We are thrilled to partner with LGT Venture Philanthropy. Together we’ll use their investment knowledge and our local experience to make a big difference in people’s lives. By using innovative digital health tools, we aim to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to more people in the communities we serve.
