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Edify is pleased to announce it has launched its first official pro bono partnership. We’ve joined forces with Medic, a global nonprofit that stewards open-source software for health workers in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.
Medic partners with governments and local organizations so that solutions are community-owned and sustainable, and we’re honored to contribute to that vision.
The Partnership
Medic’s Community Health Toolkit (CHT) is an open-source platform used across several countries in Africa and Asia. It helps health workers stay organized and deliver expert care in remote areas — right from their pocket. With CHT, they can track patient health like pregnancies, send notifications such as vaccination reminders, and make data-driven decisions to improve patient outcomes.
The CHT needs to work every time and reliably, especially in low-connectivity areas. That’s why Medic and Edify are working together to strengthen its codebase by improving its speed, reliability, and ease of use for health workers everywhere.
Technology is only as good as the people using it. Tools — whether a book, a stethoscope, or a line of code — are meant to improve the human condition. This partnership is an extension of Edify’s belief in Coding for Good. We’re putting our skills to work where they make the biggest difference — helping a health worker reach a mother in a remote village or making sure a child gets vaccinated on time.
Why Medic, Why Now?
For Edify, 15 years of steady growth created the capacity to give back at scale. People join Edify because they want their work to matter, and this collaboration lets them turn that passion into global impact.
Our team has committed hundreds of hours of in-kind developer time across engineering and QA. It’s a tangible investment of our skills and energy into work that directly supports health workers and the communities they serve.
The idea for this partnership began with Tatiana Lépiz, an Edify engineer. She shared about her time in Tanzania working for Medic:
“My three-and-a-half years at Medic were a dream job — the kind of work that reminds you why you became an engineer in the first place. It made me want to keep building technology that truly helps people.”
Seeing the natural alignment between Medic’s mission and Edify’s values, Tatiana shared her experience with Co-Founder Javier Perez, and it ignited a bigger conversation.
“When Tatiana told me about her time at Medic, it just clicked,” says Javier. “This wasn’t about doing pro bono work for the sake of it. We wanted to build something that matters. It’s exciting to put our skills to work on a project where every line of code translates into healthier lives.”
The Process
The Community Health Toolkit enables healthcare providers to:
- Track immunizations and health visits.
- Record and access patient health data in real time.
- Guide health workers with decision-support tools while in the field.
The CHT is guided by local community needs and stewarded by Medic. Edify supports this work by strengthening the CHT codebase through collaborative development, testing, and system improvements. This includes:
- Performance testing to make the app faster so health workers can serve more patients in less time.
- Modernizing their applications for better usability and long-term maintainability.
- Creating a spike tool for reusable UI components to speed up future development.
- Ensuring cross-browser compatibility so health workers can use the app on more devices, in more places.
This work helps keep the platform stable so health workers can deliver care consistently, no matter where and no matter what.
When Reliability Becomes Care
This is just the first of what we hope will be many purposeful collaborations. We are honored to be one of many partners working alongside the community to make the CHT more reliable. Our work with Medic shows that the best partnerships are symbiotic, with each side bringing its strengths to create something bigger than either could build alone.
As Andra Blaj, Director of Open Technology for Medic, puts it:
“Partnerships like this allow us to reach more communities with tools they can trust. When the platform runs smoothly, health workers spend less time troubleshooting and more time saving lives.”
That’s the future we want to continue building. Our goal is to make the technology so dependable that care is never interrupted. Every visit is time dedicated to connection, care, and healing.
Edify’s Future in Partnerships
Pro bono work is our first step toward a model of giving back that expands our impact without compromising the quality our clients rely on. It rejuvenates our team with fresh energy, growth, and meaningful bench work that benefits every project we take on.
This is just the beginning. We’ll continue strengthening the tool based on local feedback so communities have more reliable ways to deliver care. It’s a testament that Coding for Good can scale across industries and borders.
About Medic
Medic is a global nonprofit building community health technology. We envision a world where open technology unlocks health for all. We believe community-built tools can transform care—making it more human-centered and fair.
At the heart of our work is the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) — an open-source digital public good co-created with health workers, governments, and implementers around the world. The CHT powers frontline health workers and health systems to advance quality care in the hardest-to-reach communities, ensuring no one is left behind.
Today, the CHT is used in 22 countries by more than 177,000 health workers, extending care to 88 million people. Seven governments have adopted the CHT for national use, with Medic focused on building local capacity, autonomy, and innovation so that countries can own and sustain their digital health futures for generations to come.