Lonnie Hackett
The Idea
Organization
Healthy Learners
The health needs of school age children are still largely unmet across Africa. Children with common childhood illnesses—malaria, water borne disease, infections—get care late, or not at all.
About Lonnie
In college Lonnie studied biochemistry and was on track to become a doctor, but an opportune research trip to Zambia changed all that. Lonnie landed in the Misisi township of Lusaka, a community with extreme poverty and an HIV/AIDS crisis, and he decided to change course. He became singularly focused on getting school children access to healthcare. He worked with local medical workers, educators and international experts to found Healthy Learners to accomplish just that.
