Immunise the Last Village
<p>Immunise the Last Village is the association’s campaign for the children who live at the far edge of every national average — the last villages, the missed settlements, the families that campaigns pass by because they are hard to reach, unlisted, or simply absent from the denominator. National immunisation coverage can rise for years while a stubborn cohort of unvaccinated children remains invisible in the aggregate. This campaign exists to find them, count them, and bring the vaccine to them.</p><p>The campaign’s method is micro-data with community wisdom. Working with county health departments, it builds settlement-level maps that go beyond the official facility catchment lists: every village, cattle camp, fishing settlement and displaced families’ gathering that the official denominator may have missed, identified through community leaders, marketplace knowledge and outreach staff’s field experience. Against these maps, the campaign overlays immunisation data — which settlements have coverage, which have none, which have children who started but never completed their schedules.</p><p>What emerges is the campaign’s signature artefact: the missed-children map, a hand-drawn and digital hybrid in which the last villages appear in red. The maps travel to planning meetings, where outreach routes are redrawn around them — shifting session points to where families already gather, timing visits to seasonal movements, and negotiating access through the leaders who hold trust. The campaign pairs every mapping effort with completion tracking, so that children who receive a first dose are followed to their final one, and with community dialogue that addresses the questions and fears that quietly keep families away.</p><p>The campaign measures success village by village: settlements moved from red to green, schedules completed, and — most importantly — the number of children the system can now see. Partner with the campaign through the advocacy and partnership pages, and help ensure that "hard to reach" is treated as a direction, not a verdict.</p>