A health service is only inclusive if everyone can reach it.
InclusiveHealth Africa brings medicine and care to the door — but only for people who can get online to ask for it. In rural Zimbabwe, millions can't. The Inclusive Foundation exists to close that gap, starting with connectivity hotspots hosted where communities already gather.
Each light is a community coming online.
The digital divide is real — and it decides who gets care.
Our platform runs on a simple assumption: that a person can reach a phone, a signal, and the confidence to use them. For much of rural Zimbabwe, and especially for women, that assumption breaks.
A mobile gender divide
Women in Zimbabwe are less likely than men to own a smartphone, use mobile internet, or transact digitally — cutting them off from health information, income, and financial services.
Distance becomes disease
Long travel to pharmacies, stock-outs, lost income from clinic visits, and weak adherence support turn manageable conditions — hypertension, diabetes, HIV — into crises.
A trusted network already there
Catholic mission hospitals, clinics, schools and parishes reach these same communities every week — a permanent, trusted foundation to build digital access on.
Framing drawn from Inclusive Health's SheConnects concept with the Catholic health network. Specific figures to be confirmed against current field data before publishing.
Connectivity hotspots, where the divide is widest.
What a hotspot includes
- Equipment and safeguards — hardware with built-in cybersecurity and child-safety protections.
- Connectivity — reliable internet at the site, with data fees covered.
- A doorway to InclusiveHealth: ordering medicine, booking consultations, managing chronic care.
- Digital-literacy and health content in Shona and Ndebele.
- A few loan devices to complement people's own phones (BYOD) — so no one is turned away.
Hosted inside the community's most trusted spaces.
Rather than building and running costly labs, the Inclusive Foundation places connectivity hotspots inside the Catholic mission network — the health facilities and schools rural communities already rely on and trust. No new building, no unfamiliar door, and far lower overhead.
Each hotspot is an on-ramp: a place to get online, learn, and reach the health services that were out of reach — on your own phone or a device we lend. As hotspots come online, more of the map lights up — and more people can be served by the platform your gift helps sustain.
Flagship program of the Inclusive FoundationGive now to build. Stay to sustain.
You don't have to wait for the first hotspot to go live to make it happen. Support moves with us through every phase.
Switch on the first hotspots
Early gifts fund equipment, cybersecurity, connectivity and content for the first pilot sites in mission facilities and schools.
Keep them connected
As sites go live, giving covers ongoing connectivity, loan devices, content and the people who run them.
Light up the map
Sustained support expands the network site by site, community by community, across the country.
Fund the on-ramp — and follow every dollar.
Your gift to the Inclusive Foundation switches on and sustains connectivity hotspots that bring rural communities online. Give once to help launch the first sites, or monthly to keep them connected — and choose exactly where it goes: the pooled fund, or a specific diocese, district or school.
Every gift is visible on our public ledger, with usage reported per area. Leave an email when you give and you can pull a personal report of what you funded and what it did.
Can't give money? Give what you know.
As our first facilities open, we'll need people as much as funds. Three ways to help — from anywhere.
Delivery
Join last-mile teams getting medicines and equipment to rural collection points and hotspots. For people near our facilities who can drive, ride, or coordinate logistics.
Content
Create and translate digital-literacy and health materials into Shona and Ndebele — lesson plans, explainers, short videos. For writers, translators, designers and educators.
Research
Measure what works — digital inclusion, health outcomes, adherence. For university students and researchers who want real-world impact and publishable findings.
Volunteer with the Inclusive Foundation
Tell us how you'd like to help and we'll be in touch.