Education Saves Lives - Lessons for Safer Living

Covid 19 (Coronavirus) Online Lesson

Free, interactive, online lesson in many languages. Watch now or help us spread the word.
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Providing simple lessons for safer living in local languages

What We Do
We create simple, interactive lessons about health and other topics to help people live more safely.
Who We Work with
We collaborate with health authorities, community groups, street children’s societies, health clinics, faith groups, schools and individuals.
Our Impact
Between 2012 and 2019 we sent over 150,000 DVD lessons to 86 Countries. We have over 1500 registered users in 116 countries who have watched our lessons online.
Our Story
Helen Taylor Thompson founded the organisation in 2000 as a response to the growing numbers of people being diagnosed with HIV, to inform people - in local languages - about disease prevention.

"These DVDs change the behaviours of local people of DR Congo.
People from various villages meet and it becomes an opportunity to know and learn from one another."
COFAPRI, eastern DR Congo.

Using Our Lessons

Our Lessons
Our interactive lessons include a combination of information and questions, illustrated using relevant still or moving images.
Order DVDS
Our DVDs are free and we have over 33 lessons available in up to 65 languages.
Watch Online
For regions with stable internet access, our lessons are available to watch online.
Give Feedback
Tell us how you have used the lessons, and what impact they had on your community.

So far, 12,300 Rwandan healthcare workers have received training from our DVDs.
Between 2014-2017, 1.2 million Rwandans viewed our DVDs.
That's one tenth of the Rwandan population!

Get Involved

Translate a Lesson
Help us make more life-saving information available by translating a script from English to your mother-tongue.
Join Our Network
Help distribute our DVDs. We can send the DVDs to wherever they are needed, subject to local postal services.
Help Fundraise
In 2019 a fundraising fashion show raised £2,208 to support our work in Nigeria
Make a Donation
Each life-saving DVD costs us about £3.50 to produce, and each one could be seen by hundreds of people.

"We just renovated our school toilets for our children to improve general health and wellbeing.
The DVD on Basic Hygiene really came in handy."
Simbo Oke Hojhurhoye, Kenya.

Latest News

Thank you, Helen

We are really saddened to let you know that our founder Helen Taylor Thompson died on Sunday morning. We are so grateful to her, and for her, for all she was and did, she lived an amazing life and we will miss her very much.

Hygiene Education at the Grassroots in Goma, DR Congo

ACDK raises awareness of COVID-19, with the theme "usafi wa kwanza / Personal hygiene".
'We hope that the summary of our lessons on community education will help other communities to raise awareness among themselves in order to meet the health challenge by adapting it to the real needs and specific problems in their environment.'

Women’s Day 2020 #Eachforequal

This year's IWD theme is #Eachforequal. Our lessons enable disadvantaged women all over the world to have more control over the health...
“Village Africa” have been using our lessons for many years, to educate women and the wider community in Yamba, Tanzania.

Featured User Groups

Unifamily Organisation – Tanzania

Unifamily Organisation is based in Nyarugusu refugee camp in northwest Tanzania.
The camp is one of the world's biggest, home to around 150,000 people, mainly refugees from Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Unifmaily works in the camp to try to reduce teen pregnancies and gender-based v...

Lighting up Rwanda

In collaboration with One Light Rwanda, our lessons were seen by more than one million people in 25 disctricts of Rwanda, from January 2014 to Dec 2017, with encouraging feedback: “We knew that feed breasting is good but we ignored it as we wanted to have breasts of small size to stay young, we ...

Learning with Goodwill in Madurai, India

The Goodwill Social Work Centre in Madurai has been using our lessons for several years. Between 2015 and 2017 they carried out an extensive project to distribute the DVDs as widely as possible. The programme included the promotion of healthy living, using the DVD lessons for village women...

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