CASE STORY *Not their real name This model uniquely enables CHAT to tackle these issues effectively. By building trust, providing education, and bringing services closer to the community, CHAT plays a critical role in improving FP uptake and supporting sustainable development. Newly appointed CORP Melvin Lomwa set out on her long journey to Nachola to send her report to Nanyuki, she …
Background Dabaso Tujengane Self Help Group is a Community Based Organisation legally registered with the Ministry of Gender and Social Services in Malindi in 2010. It comprises 50 Community Health Workers who conduct preventive health activities for the Ministry of Health. As a group they identified tungiasis as a major health issue severely affecting their community, but that neither the …
Community Health Africa Trust One of the clinics we support is called CHAT. Community Health Africa Trust (CHAT) is an integrated mobile health clinic providing services in remote, underserved communities in the North and Central Highlands of Kenya. CHAT’s mission is to promote healthy, empowered and self-sustainable living among poor and underserved communities of Kenya through the use of integrated …
What is Needed With education about family planning now available thanks to the mobile clinics, the demand for family planning is nearly overwhelming. (read more) When drought strikes, and it does at regular intervals, the situation becomes desperate. The men and older boys leave with the cattle in search of pasture and water while the women are left behind to …
Thanks to Community Health Africa a Poverty Solution (CHAPS) for their donation for training our midwives in long term family planning, family planning products and backpacks for our mobile nurses A special thanks to Miteku Andualem Limenih, Assistant Professor of Clinical Midwifery, at the School of Midwifery, and a longtime friend of SMMMS, Dr Baye Chernat, Deputy Head of Obstetrics …