Khanya Community Health Project

The Khanya Community Health Project is designed to work in collaboration with local organisations, to raise awareness and empower the community, provide education and training, and to build a movement where local organisations share, network and organise together for quality public healthcare.

Currently, the Project’s main focus has been running a pilot project on health, based at PUSH in Eldorado Park and Kliptown (in Gauteng). Khanya has worked with children and youth from PUSH and the surrounding areas for many years (PUSH is an orphan and vulnerable children’s centre). The pilot focuses on the health needs of the community, including children, youth and adults, and aims to understand the causes of their illnesses.

Khanya College’s vision for quality public healthcare began in 1995 and our support for the SA Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) campaign to oppose the Gauteng government’s privatisation of the Emergency Medical Services (ambulance). At the time the SA government and civil society were discussing the importance of primary healthcare, to keep people well and prevent illness.