Over the past few years, she has administered some 10,000 coronavirus vaccines in her community in eastern Ethiopia.
“But I keep going because I value the work.”Ms. Yusuf is one in a legion of more than three million community health workers globally and is one of a small minority that are actually paid anything at all.
Eighty-six percent of community health workers in Africa are completely unpaid.
But now, spurred by frustrations that arose during the Covid pandemic and connected by digital technologies that have reached even remote areas, community health workers are organizing to fight for fair compensation.
The movement stretches across developing countries and echoes the labor actions undertaken by female garment workers in many of those nations 40 years ago.
Persons:
Misra Yusuf, ”, ” Ms, Yusuf
Organizations:
Ethiopian
Locations:
Ethiopia, Africa