CHB Background

COMMUNITY HEALTH BOOSTERS (CHB) is a Youth led NGO registered under Rwanda Governance Board with Certificate No 816/RGB/NGO/LP/03/2022 founded by the former Students at University of Rwanda/ College of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2017 as a ground for the upcoming health care professionals to not only play clinical based roles by curing but to primarily offer a tactical share towards combating the health challenges facing the Rwandan community. It is an innovator in the arena of community health and promotion and headship, especially the youth in concern as the key tools for change.
As a “for and by youth” movement, CHB shows a tactical share in accessing, stimulating, catalyzing and amplifying youth potentials and voices as the key role players in responding to community health needs. CHB’s principal is boosting community health by engaging and empowering youth as the absolute change makers through helping them discover their potentials and adopting technology as the foremost tool in responding to community health challenges.

With technology being at the core of its actions, CHB works towards investing knowledge and skills in youth and adolescents in a way to build their capacities and empower them enough so that they are able to deal with the community health problems and theirs as well. At CHB we believe that enabled youth and adolescents are the key foundation in creating a healthy and wealthy community.

While young people and adolescents especially young men and boys exclude themselves in health programs more so in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender Equality, Menstrual Hygiene Management and Use of Contraceptives (Family Planning), CHB ensures their inclusivity and engagement through social behavior change, transferable skills, peer to peer influence, and enhancement and promotion of positive masculinity. In this perspective, CHB aims to challenge the attached social norms by fully engaging youth and adolescents and empower them to make informed decisions regarding their health.