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Sh14 million Malava water project ready for use
In Summary • The project has been financed by East African Breweries Limited and implemented by Amref Health Africa. • It comprises a borehole, a 50,000-litre elevated steel tank, a 6.4-kilometre distribution network, and three water kiosks. About 6,000 people in water-scarce villages of Malava in Kakemega have finally heaved a sigh of relief after the completion of a Sh14 million community water project. Water from the Lukume project is already being used ahead of its commissioning, which will take place once the coronavirus is contained. The residents have ha
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Contributing to the COVID-19 Fight One Stitch at a Time, Esther Muna’s Story
“I got involved with Amref Health Africa back in 2015 at the Dagoretti Centre through the Divas – a program for young mothers. Each of the Divas had a young child, and we had dropped out of school. We were taught business skills, and through a partnership with Kenya Kanga, we were equipped with tailoring skills. When COVID-19 hit Kenya, we had no source of income. Things were not easy for us. In May, Amref called on us, and we were taken through a week’s training on what personal protective equipment (PPEs) are and the process of producing surgical face masks and gowns. We are exci
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Sh14 million Malava water project ready for use
In Summary
• The project has been financed by East African Breweries Limited and implemented by Amref Health Africa.
• It comprises a borehole, a 50,000-litre elevated steel tank, a 6.4-kilometre distribution network, and three water kiosks.
About 6,000 people in water-scarce villages of Malava in Kakemega have finally heaved a sigh of relief after the completion o
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Sh14 million Malava water project ready for use
In Summary
• The project has been financed by East African Breweries Limited and implemented by Amref Health Africa.
• It comprises a borehole, a 50,000-litre elevated steel tank, a 6.4-kilometer distribution network, and three water kiosks.
About 6,000 people in water-scarce villages of Malava in Kakamega have finally heaved a sigh of relief after the completion of a Sh14 millio
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A Guiding Light: The Men Supporting Adolescent Mothers
Article by USAID/Afya Timiza Project Unplanned and early pregnancies often deter girls and young women from achieving their goals. At a younger age, Riziki dreamt of becoming a nurse so she could help mothers and children in her community. At 14, just as she was beginning to prepare herself for the national primary school certificate examinations, Riziki discovered she was pregnant. The herbs the moran gave her every time they had sex had not worked. Too afraid to face her family, Riziki ran away from home and dropped out of school. A lo
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Community Health Workers Champion Kenya’s COVID-19 Response
Communities and community health workers matter and play a key role in responding to major disease outbreaks as demonstrated in the Ebola outbreak in West and Central Africa. Community health workers provide essential community health services such as increasing access to health products and services, providing health education and reducing the burden on the formal health care system by managing non-complicated illnesses such as Malaria. They identify presumptive cases, trace contacts and link them to health facilities for further management. As countries set up and implement national re
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Unusual Partnerships: Rangers and Scouts at the Frontline of Improving Maternal and Child Health in Rangelands
Article by USAID/Afya Timiza Project "When a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, it is considered a bad omen and the community does not support any burial rights or conversations regarding the death. It is also believed that a woman who loses her child during pregnancy or childbirth is weak and an object of bad luck,” explains Josephine Lenasaya, speaking about some of the myths surrounding maternal and infant deaths in Samburu County. Josephine, who works as a radio operator at the Kalama Conservancy, borrows heavily from her day-to-day work as she adv
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Resiato’s Story
Beatrice Resiato, 16, still remembers the pain her older sister went through ten years ago when she had to transition to womanhood through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). But when her time came to go through the same ordeal, she decided to step in and fight for her rights. Recalling the day that it happened to her sister, Beatrice says, “It was a Saturday in 2009 when I was six years old. I woke up and found many women in our homestead. My sister was held by several women and placed on a goatskin at the entrance of a manyatta. Women pulled her legs apart and with no anaesthetic, a sharp
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Salma’s Story: Embracing Child Spacing in Kwale County
Salma Kadama, a 22-year-old mother of three is a resident of Miatsani Village, Kwale County. Salma had all her three children within a span of six (6) years at a time when she knew nothing about child spacing. Her youngest child aged one year is currently enrolled in a feeding programme at Kizibe Dispensary.
Kadama is one among many community members who have been reached by the UKAid-funded Delivering Sustainable and Equitable Increases In Family Planning (DESIP) Programme in Kwale County. Kadama was reached when she attended a community dialogue in Kizibe targeting family plan Read More
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David Mbalo’s Story: A Livelihood in Selling and Building Toilets
My name is David Mbalo. I serve as a community health volunteer (CHV) in Buyayi Village, Busia County. I am one of the CHVs trained by Amref Health Africa’s FINISH INK Project on sanitation marketing. Although in the village I am best known as “Daktari wa Kijiji” (village-based health worker), I am a trained mason by profession. I took up the CHV role so as to serve my community. Since then, my passion for seeing a healthy community has been my source of motivation. I would like to see a disease-free Buyayi Village because a healthy village is an empowered village.” --- Dav
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