About Kuishi Smart
Kuishi Smart, a Canadian non-profit organization, offers an innovative, sustainable and patient-centred response to chronic disease. Its name, meaning Live Smart in Swahili, reflects its vision of a world where everyone eats healthy, lives well and fulfills their potential.
Our story
Our story begins with a conviction: no family should be left alone to face the nutritional challenges of illness.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is where the journey of our founder, Bakadi Patient BEYA, began. After his initial training in nutrition and dietetics in the DRC, he continued his professional development in Canada, including at Toronto Metropolitan University. His experience in clinical and humanitarian health convinced him that quality expertise should be accessible without forcing families to leave their country.
This conviction became deeply personal when he supported his seriously ill brother. Faced with the limits of the nutrition support available in Kinshasa, he arranged for him to travel for specialized care. Despite the progression of the disease, nutrition care helped improve his energy, mobility and comfort. His family was able to share more time with him.
One question remains: how many families in the DRC can afford to seek this care elsewhere? Kuishi Smart wants to bring skills and services closer to communities.
« Kuishi Smart is not just an organization; it is a human and scientific response to the urgency of non-communicable diseases. Making health a right, not a privilege. »
Mission
To improve health and quality of life through accessible, integrated dietetic care, the prevention of non-communicable diseases and capacity building for health professionals.
Vision
A community where everyone eats healthy, lives better and fulfills their full potential.
Acting on the risk factors we can change
We aim to build healthier, more resilient communities by promoting wellness and preventing non-communicable diseases through evidence-based health promotion and lifestyle interventions. We work to reduce individual and community exposure to the most common modifiable risk factors, while empowering people to take control of their health and manage chronic conditions with knowledge, dignity and hope.
- Unhealthy diets
- Physical inactivity
- Tobacco use
- Harmful alcohol use
Values
- Equity and dignity
- Excellence and safety of care
- Empathy and autonomy
- Scientific rigour
- Collaboration and accountability
Our approach
Our model combines the socio-ecological model, the Chronic Care Model and person- and family-centred care. It includes nutrition assessment, medical nutrition therapy, therapeutic education, motivational interviewing and outcome monitoring.
What sets us apart
- Individualized nutrition care plans
- Evidence-based medical nutrition therapy
- Counselling and self-management for patients and their families
- Psychosocial and mental health support
- Electronic medical records for continuous follow-up
- Interdisciplinary team: physicians, dietitians, psychologists, nurses
- Canadian standards adapted to African realities
Theory of change
- If
people have access to early screening, adapted nutrition care, digital follow-up and psychosocial support,
- then
they will be better able to prevent and manage non-communicable diseases, reduce complications and improve their quality of life,
- which
will strengthen health systems and reduce the costs of hospitalizations and premature deaths.
Leadership and governance
Kuishi Smart is guided by a social mission, responsible governance and the commitment of qualified professionals.
[TO CONFIRM]Biographies of the team and board of directors, once they are confirmed as current and consent has been given.
Kuishi Smart Learn
Building skills, transforming care
A continuing education program in clinical nutrition and dietetics, inspired by international standards and adapted to African realities. It combines up-to-date knowledge, clinical reasoning, case studies, simulations, intercultural communication, documentation and competency assessment.
Areas
- Nutritional prevention and management of NCDs
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Obesity
- Chronic kidney disease
- Ethics
- Patient-centred care
- Interprofessional practice
Our ambition
To turn uncertainty into competence, competence into professional confidence, and confidence into safer, more human care.
A participant's story
Joseph Karemera
Clinical nutritionist, programme alumnus
Before, I couldn't set goals with the patient. After the programme I could, and my patients really loved being put at the centre of care.
Work with us
Together, let's bring quality nutrition care closer to the people and families who need it.
- Become a technical or clinical partner: hospitals, universities, community organizations, institutions
- Fund scholarships and training for health professionals
- Support prevention and therapeutic education projects
- Contribute to applied research, evaluation and quality improvement
- Volunteer or share your expertise
Careers
Would you like to join the team?
Contact and appointments
Improve your health. Transform your life.
A question, an appointment request or a partnership proposal? Contact our team.