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We provide healthcare and family planning services for rural and underserved communities in Kenya, through community health workers and outreach mobile clinics.

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  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls

    Situation

    Meeting a family’s basic needs is extremely difficult in rural Kenya and the lack of access to family planning exacerbates this. Many couples have more children than they want. Every unintended pregnancy adds further strain to family finances and resources. Women can walk for several hours to reach their nearest health clinic which may not stock family planning commodities, or charge unaffordable fees for them. The unmet need for family planning is up to 97% in some areas.

    Solution

    Community Health Workers spend time with couples in remote communities, supporting them to choose the number and spacing of their children, busting myths that still exist around contraception. Adverts are also aired on the local radio stations. This is proceeded with an outreach clinic with Ministry of Health nurses and doctors, who provide basic health care, vaccinations, and HIV counselling and testing along with free family planning services and advice. The CHW then follows up.

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    100%
    Categories

  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • Infants (<2) Infants (<2)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls