social amenities & infrastructure
High levels of poverty, the prevalence of tropical diseases and population increases put a strain on the services currently available in Western Kenya.
| Duration: February 2007 - on going Donor: Individual donors Budget: £4,000 Beneficiaries: Members of 3 communities |
The Kenyan Government has inadequate funds to build a comprehensive service infrastructure, leaving many people without health enhancing services. To improve the services available to vulnerable children, we facilitate the construction and development of a service infrastructure - ensuring the most vulnerable and remote families have access to these health and day-care services. We do this through the corporation of communited community groups that take on the role of managing and implementing the project, but need the funds and facilitation to get them started. This is where we get into the picture.
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Through a couple of generous donations by individuals, we have been able to facilitate the completion of an orphan day care centre in Mindhandhu community. We facilitated the planning and oversaw the construction of the building to ensure that our collective goals were met. We frequently visit the day care centre and every time we go there we see how happy the children are and how well the community is managing the care and running of the day care centre.
We have also completed the construction of a dispensary in Mihani community. We started out by building a community pharmacy. Many children in the community face an untimely death as they are unable to reach a health facility for basic treatment of sickness caused by malaria, typhoid or dysentery. The two-roomed pharmacy was to offer treatment at a subsidised rate. We have since assisted the local community group in writing up a proposal for the completion of the dispensary and they successfully managed to raise £6,300, which is enough to complete the construction of the dispensary and furnish it.
We have also completed the construction of a dispensary in Mihani community. We started out by building a community pharmacy. Many children in the community face an untimely death as they are unable to reach a health facility for basic treatment of sickness caused by malaria, typhoid or dysentery. The two-roomed pharmacy was to offer treatment at a subsidised rate. We have since assisted the local community group in writing up a proposal for the completion of the dispensary and they successfully managed to raise £6,300, which is enough to complete the construction of the dispensary and furnish it.
