The Zambian healthcare system faces a severe shortage of personnel. To address this, the Hilti Foundation and SolidarMed established vocational training for nurses and midwives. Adequate housing for students and healthcare workers is crucial to retaining skilled staff, making it a key part of the initiative.

A game-changing approach of decentralized vocational education of nurses and midwifes, implemented by SolidarMed and funded by the Hilti Foundation, has proven effective in Zambia. Now, the Ministry of Health has decided to make it a national education standard to be implemented nationwide.