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Personal Stories
Dignity Restored – Paskalia Story
Paskalia Apondi, is an 84 year old a resident of Nambale, Busia County. Paskalia is a mother of four and a grandmother to 11. She narrates that her condition started in February 2016 after she had her uterus removed after developing complications. “I cannot count the many times I changed my diapers in a day. My daughter used to buy me mattresses but they only lasted three months because of the urine. My bed sheets would only last for one month because I used to clean them daily. I used to cry every day, and my children thought I would die of the condition. I used to smell and no one wa
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Nalotuesha’s Story
Four years ago, Nalotuesha Muli, 25, was pregnant with her fourth child. Her joy and happiness came to a halt after having a stillbirth delivery assisted by a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA). After two days of labour, her life took a turn, the grief of losing her baby and later on leaking urine became too much for her. The mother of three who hails from Maasai Mara Village in Narok County thought that giving birth came with a price and that leaking urine and faeces uncontrollably was a price she paid for being a woman. “I gave birth through the help of a Traditional Birth Attendan
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Meet Naomi, Winner of Miss ARP Rombo beauty pageant
December holidays in Rombo ward, Kajiado County in Kenya is a crucial time as it is known as the ‘cutting season’. Every year 3 million girls across the globe are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). But, 14 year-old Naomi Ndaine, a form two student at Rombo girls secondary who hails from Matepes village in Rombo ward is determined to change this in her village. Today, December is a season to shine and advocate against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Th
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Community Health Volunteers Champion the Uptake of Improved Sanitation Facilities
Thirty-seven year old Mary Kakita is among 435 Community Heath Volunteers (CHVs) trained and supported by the Amref Health Africa FINISH-INK project to promote and market sanitation facility models and link interested clients to financiers, local sanitation suppliers and artisans. Mary is also a kindergarten teacher and lives with her husband and five children in Kaalan Village, Nambale Constituency, Busia County. The county was declared open defecation free by the Government of Kenya in 2015. Mary takes pride in her duties as a CHV and is in charge of 53 households. Her main task is t
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A Healthy School is a Wealthy School: The End of Kyalamoko Primary School’s Water Crisis
Kyalamoko Primary School finally has running water with a hand washing station and a modern latrine for its pupils. Not long ago, the school located in the semi-arid and water scarce region of Mwingi East sub-county did not have running water. The pupils relied on a five litre jerrican of water which was not enough to cater for everyone’s needs. Still each day, the classrooms were packed with pupils, some from as far as eight kilometres away, eager to learn. School headmaster Mr Robert Muthui recalls how the lack of water had taken a toll on his school. “Access to safe and clean wat
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Women Led Self-Help Group Changing Lives in Kitui County
Katitika Self-Help initiative is one of the groups that has benefited from Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Kitui Integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (I-WASH) Project in Kitui west E sub-county, Kitui County. It started as a small support structure of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) who came together to help each other in dealing with problems they faced in their work, share experiences, as well as sensitise people about diseases that were prevalent in their communities. In 2006, they decided to register the group in order to help enhance their economic status. And thus Katitika sel
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Amref Reconstructed My Life: Carolyne’s Story
On Friday, June 22, 2018, we set out on a journey to Njoro, Nakuru County to visit Carolyne Ngesa a beneficiary of Amref’s surgical outreach programme. We stop by her place of work and find her busy making the day count. She seeks permission from her supervisor to talk us.We proceed to her house about two kilometres away and she starts by saying, “The way you see me is not the way I was. My life has been completely transformed.” Carolyne lost both her parents in 2002 when she was nine years old and was left in the care of her grandmother. At the tender age of 11 years, Carolyne was ra
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Artisan Championing the Construction of Toilets in His Community – Bernard’s Story
When Bernard Autai Alemu a father of three and a resident of Teso South in Busia County left school, his passion was to venture into business. His community selected him to be a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) and he could not turn down the role. Bernard took up the role; little did he know this path would lead him into his dream job. In the many years of serving his community, Bernard was a recipient of several training courses supported by different partners, among them the Amref Health Africa in Kenya FINISH–INK project. The training sparked his passion; he saw a business opportunity,
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A Toilet Changed Ajuma’s Family
Can you imagine having to walk over one kilometre to relieve yourself every time you needed to use the toilet? This was the reality for 29-year old Anna Ajuma. Before constructing a latrine in their homestead, Mary and her three children used to defecate in the bushes, open fields or near a river. During rainy seasons, Mary would go to her father-in-law’s home to use his latrine. Sometimes when she had visitors, her only option was to take them to her father –in-law’s to use his facility. “We used to relieve ourselves in the bushes, and outside our house,” recalled Anna. When i
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287 Girls Graduate from Childhood to Womanhood without ‘The Cut’
It is ‘cutting season.’ A few years ago at this time of the year, thousands of girls in Rombo Ward, Oloitokitok, Kajiado County would face the circumciser’s knife. Today, communities in Oloitokitok are slowly embracing Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) for girls, a ceremony that replaces and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and girls transition into womanhood without being circumcised. After finishing a three-day ARP training programme where they were taught about reproductive health, child rights, harmful and good cultural practises among the Maasai co
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