By Lucy Mathenge | Project Assistant
New Kokwa dispensary is yet to be in use as the County government has not stocked the dispensary and employing a permanent nurse to serve the community. The old dispensary is still operational although not on daily basis as it should due to unavailability of the nurse. Since the volunteer nurse left the Island, the community is served when the other nurse is available. This has been a challenge since those who requires daily services cannot access them as they should and due to inadequate resources they cannot afford to travel to Marigat. Although currently nurses are on strike, this community is suffering a lot. The community had high hopes that by now the dispensary will be operational but that has not been the case. The County Government keep promising them but without quick actions. We are grateful to our well-wishers and donors through global giving as we have been able to support the very serious cases with the funds that we have received. We thank them for their kind contribution and we request them to continue supporting this community. We have also conducted internal workshops with the school girls on hygiene, sex and reproduction topics. We realize that these are among the topics that are not discussed in the community and they are negatively affecting the school going boys and girls and we wish to conduct many more to the larger Kokwa community. We have had cases of school dropout for the girls due to unwanted pregnancy and early marriages. We thank everybody who has given a hand towards success of this needy community. We appreciate your efforts and we urge you to continue supporting the needy in the society.
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