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Personal Stories
Kicking AIDS Out
Peter Adoyo serves as a community health worker in the Soweto East community unit. He got his training as a Community Heath Volunteer in 2009 and has since been visiting, advising and helping people in different households about matters health. He currently has 117 households that he visits twice per week and works closely with the community members in holding dialogues on health. In cases where he finds a household with health problems, he does his research before referring the family to Amref Kibera health centre. He works well in mobilizing women on family planning and links up with the c
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A Community Health Worker (CHW) returns to Primary School at 22
She looks youthful in her neatly dressed school outfit, but she is 22 and already a mother of three. Marisa Lenaitorono, a Community Health Worker (CHW) is in class three at Nkopeliani Primary School in Samburu County. The young woman was 14 when she dropped out of school. “I was forced to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and then married off to a man the age of my father,” she narrates. “Not because I was in love with the man, but because of my tradition dictated so. I had no voice to say no,” she continues. Faced with hard reality of motherhood at a tender age,
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Ruth Lepata benefits from Water supply and Food sovereignty project
Ruth Lepeta, a Community Health Worker (CHW) in Lpetepet village is a happy woman, thanks to training by Amref Health Africa. The mother of four young children says the training has been a big blessing as it has helped improve quality of her family’s life. Armed with the training, Lepeta has resorted into giving back to the community by advocating for construction of pit latrines to reduce incidences of contagious disease and bring dignity to members of the community. “We were taught how to dig pit latrines and use them. Before then, we used to defecate in the bushes, this brought
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Community Health Workers help save lives in Wamba Samburu County
Antonera Lepesha is a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) from Tritop in Samburu County. After being trained by Amref Health Africa through the Uzazi Salama project, Antonera has taken lead in executing health strategies in her community. Her roles include taking care of patients in her village, giving referrals, and also facilitating patients’ transportation to health facilities. “I am happy I can now help my community. The training done by Amref Health Africa has empowered me with the skill and knowledge to serve my people better,” she explains. Antonera appreciates the mLearning pl
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Dorcus Indalo Personal Story
In the last 13 years that Dorcus Indalo has been working with Amref Health Africa in Kenya, she has gone from supporting HIV and AIDS project in one of Africa’s largest urban slums, to working with Maasai and Kamba communities to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Kajiado and Kitui counties. Today, she rubs shoulders with legislators and policy makers at the County and National level to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. With so many years of experience, and such a variety of work, it’s no wonder that Dorcus has three mome
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