Health Literacy Academy-Kenya (HLA) is a Nairobi-based social enterprise working in health systems, a limited company that operates on social-enterprise principles and reinvests its profits into the communities it serves.
We translate the world's leading definition of health literacy, the ability to find, understand and use health information and services, into practical work on Kenyan ground.
We build with communities, providers and ministries, not for them. We strengthen the health workforce, design the learning, and build the digital platforms that carry information from the policy table to the household.
We make it easier for communities to find, understand, and use health information and services, and we equip the providers, build the platforms, and design the learning that make it happen.
A Kenya where no one is left behind by health information they cannot find, cannot understand, or cannot act on.
HLA is a limited company that operates on social-enterprise principles. We put communities, not shareholders, at the centre of everything we do, and we reinvest our profits into the communities we work with: into health literacy, learning, and the systems that put better health within reach for more Kenyans.
Social enterprise · Community-first · Profit reinvested · Built to last
Revenue from provider training, digital platforms (HMIS, LMS, conference systems) and advisory work.
Profit flows back, not out, into community health-literacy programs.
Stronger health literacy, skills and systems that improve lives.
The cycle repeats, and impact compounds with every project.
Everything we build helps people find, understand and use health information and services.
We strengthen the people who deliver care, and design the learning that gets them there.
We design, deploy and support the software that runs health systems and learning.
We help hospitals, counties and ministries become health-literate organizations, and make health information something every community can use.
Plain language, accessible design. If a community can't understand it, it isn't finished.
Kenya-grounded. Solutions fit local realities, languages, infrastructure and policy.
We design with communities, providers and counties at the table, not for them.
Every program is measured. Data decides what we scale.
We hand over systems and skills so impact outlives the engagement.
We design for the hardest-to-reach first.
Commission a project, fund a program, or co-design with us.