Each of the projects listed below will be supported by or connected to Camps International in some way, a registered charity. We are fundraising in this way to ensure your money goes where we have said it will in Kenya, rather than into the whole charity pot. We will be working closely with members of Camps to ensure this.
Healthcare Outreach Programme and The Practice Nursing Forum Outreach Project Fund
"In rural Kenya, around 70% of people are living below the poverty line and access to proper sanitation, clean drinking water, healthcare and an education are often limited or non-existent." Camps International, Healthcare Outreach Programme PDF 2012
Started in 2011, the Healthcare Outreach Programme has been run by Camps International, alongside local NGO's and government employed nurses and healthcare professionals. In 2011 7,500 people were seen at 8 clinics. In 2012 8,000 people were seen in 8 clinics. It is happening again in Nov 2013. You can see the presentation about the first trip here: www.practicenursing.co.uk/kenya/powerpoint.pdf Any money we raise will help provide; jigger treatment equipment, medication for the clinics, and general equipment to deal with the vast array of conditions seen in the two weeks and beyond. Where possible, we buy anything we can for the Healthcare Oureach Programme in Kenya so that it adds to the Kenyan economy and money raised is not wasted in transport or taxation. The Practice Nursing Forum Outreach Project Fund raises money for specific projects which are sustainable such as funding towards training a nurse in Kenya, training a local team of healthcare workers to provide an ongoing jigger eradication programme between visits of the Healthcare Outreach Programme and improving existing services where possible. It would cost £1,500 to train a local girl to become a nurse over a three year period, including tuition, lodgings, textbooks and food. After the trip in 2011, the Practice Nursing Forum Outreach Project Fund raised over £2500 to replace the water catchment system at Muhaka Dispensary to ensure there is always clean water for use at the health centre. If you would also make a seperate dontation to the Practice Nursing Forum Outreach Project Fund, click the link or go to www.practicenursing.co.uk/Kenya/ |
Smart Kid: Children Day Out Profile and Makongeni Youth Group
Salim Abdallah, a local young man in Makongeni (aged 24), is in the process of setting up a small entrepreneurship Smart Kid to create a safe and fun environment to encourage young people of Makongeni aged 5-14 and orphans in and around the area, nurturing their talent and growth, embracing the importance of education and helping them academically. Activities will incude sports, creative activities as well as mentoring, financial advice and health advice (HIV/Aids awareness, Sanitation awareness and training) The initiative is still in planning stages but Salim has piloted some of what he hopes to do at the Makongeni Fun Day he organised in May 2013 (picture above).
Ellie will be visiting Salim to see how the project is going and if there is anything else we can do to support getting the project off the ground and make it sustainable. Below you can see Salim's initial costings ...237,800 kenyan shilling = £1832. Salim and Bakari (who has also set up a community cinema) work with Makongeni Youth Group. Salim was chosen as a youth member of the Kwale District to bring youth groups together. Makongeni Youth Group help to improve things for the community such as painting buildings and water tanks, helping with another jigger eradication programme ten km away.
https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfMakongeni Washable Sanitry Towel Programme
Victoria Gillbard is the director of operations for Camps International in Africa. Sanitary pads, tampons and mooncups are simple provisions taken for granted for us in the UK, let alone how easily we can dispose of them appropriately. Not everyone has this luxury or ability. Victoria started a Washable Sanitary Towel Programme in Tanzania which has been very successful, and has now started a similar programme in Muhaka, Kenya. The programme not only provides washable pads for girls and young women in the area, but also training some of them how to sew their own.
We would like a percentage of what we raise to go to the Washable Sanitary Towel Programme. |