Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

We shall provide comprehensive care, conduct medical camps, and offer medication, referrals, and tests. With your support we are giving 250 sick women hope, love, care, counseling, and the power to live on.

Project Message

We are channels of hope to 250 sick women to take health into their own hands, enabling women to take responsibility for their health which is more powerful than telling people what they should do.
- Jemimah Achieng - a middle aged women, Community volunteer health worker

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Wycliffe Mboya,
Team Leader
.O.Box 138-40123.Mega City.Kisumu-Kenya
P.O.Box 138-40123.Mega City.Kisumu-Kenya
Kisumu,Lake Victoria, Nyanza 40123
Kenya
+254724799727
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about S A C R E N A and the project team.

S A C R E N A's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 22, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Working for Women to change the world and get health care.

By Dr.Wycliffe Mboya - Team Leader, August 07, 2008 05:45 PM

During the Kenyan's disputed elections hundrends of thousands of women were raped,contacted sexually trasmitted diseases,some phycologically touched.They need attention to basic urgent treatments and provisions of access to reduced low cost health care.In additional to this, women in Africa are volunarable,poor and with no one to pay for their insurance medical cover.Getting a meal a day is the biggest problem and assume you are on drugs and no food....dangerous problem,need of clean water and prevent more water born and infections.

In this regard,we are on the ground for this women;

1)Offering Community Counselling to 240 women.We had also daigonstic tests for the pared women and formen the 20 group therahies in local 10 villages.
2)Conducting awerenesness campaing against women and gender violence.
3)Visiting the Homes of Women with cancer,Aids,Pregnacy Complication,and vited also parrlised women as aresult of rape and other tretable illeness.
4)walking acroos the poor villages l within the community homes and identifing every home where we shall dig water wells for evry woman.
5)We are working with the Community radio Stations,TV station and the Goverment structures to assist with volunteers and publicity for the medical camp meetings.
6)Setting up a drop in center at SACRENA center for women to come an visit the volunterr doctor for treaments of opportunistic inffcetions e.g Malaria,diareh,TB,Sexually trasmitted inffections and provisons of fre Antirival drugs for Aids patients.

Recommndations:
1)Urgent attentions for community medical camp and more couseling(recruting additional volunteers to handle the number.
2)Provisions of malaria mosqutor nets to avoid malaria.
3)Volunteers to deliver health care servicesservices
4)Facilitaions and getting resource of the well digging,purchase of nets,medications and referals.

I encourage you to spread the word and directly Communicate to us!
Attachments:

• women lining at the counseling camp.
• offring support to rapoed women
• medical camps

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