Your support will save lives and improve community health throughout the Kibera slum. We treat every patient to walks through our doors with the dignity they deserve. The clinic sees over 1,800 patients every month-and this number is continuously on the rise. The JJJ Clinic specializes in providing quality primary health care with a special focus on women and children's health. Through our Community Health Worker Program, the care we provide is not limited by the clinic wall.
In Kibera, Africa's largest slum, women face terrible obstacles to success: many trade sex for food, encounter abuse, and nearly all are denied access to education. These conditions hurt the entire community, as research has shown that women are more likely to invest in family, health and education. Shining Hope for Communities provides essential services through women to interrupt generational cycles of poverty and to improve the health of the entire community.
The JJJ Clinic focuses on women's health care, and reducing the number one cause of death for women in Kibera: childbirth. By providing high-quality antenatal care, a well-child clinic, creating a home-based maternal health network, and ensuring hospital deliveries for program participants, the JJJ Clinic secures a bright future for mothers and their children. In addition to its women's health program, the clinic provide primary care accessible to all.
In August, 2009 a nurse examined each student entering our school and found that 94% were malnourished. Through the feeding program at the school and clinic, we will reduce student malnutrition by 100% by the end of the first year. Rates of maternal and infant mortality will decrease by 98% among participants in the Maternal Health Program. We predict a 25% reduction of child/teen pregnancy among clinic participants after 3 years.
I would like you to know that here in Kibera, we are dying each day, women, men, and children. Please know, if you give Shining Hope for Communities the resources, you give us in Kibera hope.
- Kepha Otieno, Parent, staff member, & project participant
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,265
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $6,265 . The original project funding goal was $6,000.
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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