By Hope Okeny | Project leader
Our clinic cannot serve everyone, because our focus is maternal and child health care. At the same time we do not also turn away the vulnerable patients like childern under five years old or expectant mothers. However, practicing our mission in the communities we serve is important to our organization. It's who we are!
Every week we carry out community outreaches, it is the task of
the village health team, the local leaders and the staff to decide which
community they will visit. It is also done on a needs basis, when the community
requests us to visit them; or sometimes we do random visits.
"Outreach activity is held on Thursdays of every week. And on this afternoon,
the health team went to the local village of Layik. It was a wonderful
experience to share time with this community and bring not only the healthcare
they need, but also to distribute to them mosquito nets. Everyone was very
happy - both the outreach team and the community members. Our team carried out
a health talk to these youth about their health needs. In addition to testing
and counseling, we donated mosquito nets to the mothers with children under
five years.
On this day we carried out testing to about 28 youths. We also
gave out 15 mosquito nets to mothers with children under five years.
It was a good day, because we allowed the youth to ask as many
questions as possible. They were relaxed and felt free to ask as they wished. We
later had a small drama and sang songs together, and they thanked us for our work.
This is not the last but the first of many visits. It was wonderful.
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Friends!: Thanks, as always, for supporting our work in this community! HIV/AIDS is real and we need to continue carrying out sensitisation especially to the youth. Malaria is the biggest threat amongst the cases that we attend to in the health centre. We urge our donors to gift the children and expectant mothers especially with bed nets to reduce malaria in the community.
We always wish you the best and thank you for your compassion and generosity.
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