Health is the first step out of poverty

About us

People can only go to school, work and contribute positively to their community, when they’re healthy. That’s why we want to make basic health accessible and available to all. It is our ambition to structurally improve the health of 10 million people by 2020.

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Our ambition, vision and mission

By tackling WASH and SRHR issues, we can stop preventable diseases, reduce mortality and morbidity rates, and boost social and economic development. It’s the first step to a better, fairer world for all.

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Ariette Brouwer

Ariette is Simavi’s Managing Director. After a long career at the Swedish SCA Cooperation (known for its brands like Edet and Libresse), she is now driven to inspire the public and private sectors, knowledge institutions, NGOs and communities to work together towards basic health for all.

STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENT OF BASIC HEALTH

We empower communities, involve governments and private sector to ensure everyone can use essential services, learn healthy behaviour and enjoy sexual & reproductive rights. Together we develop sustainable programmes that deliver long lasting improvement to the health of marginalised communities in Africa and Asia.

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The impact of Basic Health

Simavi has been working to improve basic health for ninety years.

Over this time we’ve built up an in-depth knowledge of what - and who - it takes to successfully implement WASH and SRHR programmes and how to keep producing positive and sustainable results.

These are our core competences

Our history

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Our history

Simavi has been working to improve health standards in marginalised communities in Africa and Asia since 1925. Find out how it all started here

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