Your Joy Saves Lives
JoyFund mobilises local philanthropy to help vulnerable pregnant women overcome financial and last-mile barriers to essential maternal and newborn care - from pregnancy through the first 42 days after birth.
How JoyFund Works
Help low-income pregnant women overcome verified financial barriers to essential maternal and newborn care.
Help low-income pregnant women overcome verified financial barriers to essential maternal and newborn care.
Support transportation to participating health facilities and referral hospitals when distance and cost stand in the way of care.
Help eligible women stay connected to essential care from pregnancy through childbirth and the first 42 days after birth.
Eligible healthcare costs are verified with participating health facilities, with payments made directly to providers where applicable.
Help demonstrate that Cameroonian communities can mobilise their own resources to improve maternal and newborn health.
WHY JOYFUND?
JoyFund transforms everyday giving and moments of celebration into organised support for vulnerable mothers and newborns.
Women seeking support are screened against defined eligibility criteria, with healthcare needs verified through participating health facilities.
Where healthcare costs are supported, funds are paid directly to participating providers rather than handed to participants.
Contributions, approved support and payments are digitally documented to strengthen accountability from giving to care.
JoyFund addresses not only healthcare costs, but verified last-mile barriers such as transportation to care and referral facilities.
JoyFund targets verified gaps that can remain even where public maternal and newborn health programmes already exist.
Active JoyFunds
Your gift makes a real difference
Our Model
From celebration money to a People's Health Fund
Cameroonians have always pooled resources for one another through community pooling groups and alumni giving. JoyFund brings that same spirit online - channelling everyday celebratory contributions from friends, family, and the diaspora into a shared fund that connects vulnerable mothers and newborns to essential care.
Our primary focus is low-income and vulnerable pregnant women and their newborns, from pregnancy through the first 42 days after birth. Participants are screened by social workers against eligibility criteria, with needs verified through participating health facilities. No cash changes hands - where care is supported, funds are paid directly to providers, and every step is tracked from giving to care.
Verified Support
Screened by social workers & partner facilities
Direct Provider Payment
Funds paid straight to providers - never as cash
Diaspora Ready
Give to Cameroon from anywhere in the world
Public Impact Reports
See exactly where every XAF goes
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about turning your celebration into a mother's safe and supported care.
JoyFund is a community-powered maternal and newborn health financing platform. It organises the generosity that already exists across Cameroon - through families, alumni associations, churches, njangi groups, businesses and diaspora networks - into a transparent, verified fund that helps vulnerable pregnant women and newborns overcome financial and last-mile barriers to essential care, from pregnancy through the first 42 days after birth.
Your celebration could save a life
It takes 2 minutes to create a JoyFund. Your network does the rest.