#TujipangeKablaTupangwe (Let's organise our communities)

Kenya

Virtual trauma-informed, peer support groups targeting community health volunteers (on the front line), human rights defenders, teachers, social workers, and security personnel contextualising what it means to live daily with COVID-19 in Kenya.

Project Stage

Scaling

Total Cost

$61,500.00

Last update: October 05, 2023

Overview Contributors

Challenge

It is feared an outbreak will overrun our healthcare system. A mainstream reaction to the impending crisis from both government and citizens is the "ordinary" Kenyan is either ignorant or lacks the requisite agency to make their own decisions or just needs to be "pushed” to be “saved”. It is a top-down mentality guiding almost all our policy today. But the experience in other African countries during outbreaks shows us there is an alternative. When people own prevention it becomes the norm.

Description

Community ownership has been used successfully in Kenya with HIV and other health epidemics. Today it can enhance local level coping skills and develop social distancing rooted in the context. If we give people a chance to be a part of the solution they can do it. The ordinary Kenyan citizen wants his family to be healthy and safe. She also has the required agency to make wise choices if given the right tools to do so. Let's find the right tools. And let's begin to believe in ourselves.

SDGs

Skills

Community Health

Outcomes

In total, we trained over 24 tailors, reached over 141 families, A children’s home in Kibagare, and over 235 vulnerable girls’ from the DREAMS Project, distributed over 1400 Masks to the Police, 100 Masks to football teams and their families in Dagoretti, over 400 Masks to the National Police Wives Association, which distributed them in Pokot, to the officers and the communities. Cumulatively, We managed to make over 5000 masks that have been distributed in Kawangware, Dagoretti, Kangemi, Eastleigh, NPS, Pokot and Kakamega County.