Secondary Team 05

Tubungabunge Ubuzima

Tubungabunge Ubuzima, or ‘Let’s Protect Health,’ applies Systems Judo by integrating breast-health awareness, checklists, and referral support into Rwanda’s existing Umuganda community-service routine. By equipping Community Health Workers with screening checklists and referral vouchers during regular community gatherings, the team aims to reduce the need for separate mobilization and normalize early detection as a sustained civic practice.

The boom-and-bust cycle of temporary awareness can be reinforced by transport costs and clinic-overcrowding barriers.

The team uses existing community infrastructure as a leverage point to make early detection a more sustained civic practice rather than a standalone medical event.

Women in rural communities, families, husbands, Community Health Workers, and community leaders. The strategy works through existing local community routines and leadership structures.

In development — resumes when the cohort returns from school break.