Mary Matecho, a Community Health Volunteer who serves in the Indangalasia community unit, was on her usual rounds testing for malaria when a lady approached her. She told her about her son, Saul,...
The Integration of mobile learning to KANCO Training programmes - is a pilot initiative that seeks to assess the ability to enhance routine Immunization and defaulter tracing training community programs by integrating an m-Health component that offers initial...
[caption id="attachment_1008" align="alignright" width="283"] A CHV, Gianaphina, with some of her household members[/caption]
In the picturesque hilly Makueni lies a small community unit known as Illatu. Illatu is home to 50...
Beautiful green landscape, home to wild animals such as elephants, leopards, giant forest hogs, lions, zebras and more than 100 bird species…the beautiful sights of Laikipia County. Located on the...
A Community Health Worker (CHW) in Kibera, an informal settlement in Kenya’s capital – Nairobi - has taken it upon herself to teach residents on cholera prevention measures.
In June 2017,...
Lochuch Lokitare, a Community Health Worker (CHW) linked to Marti Community Unit (CU), Samburu County, will never forget the evening of 16 February 2017. She was heavily pregnant and had...
When Chantal Hellen, a Community Health Worker (CHW) serving in Ldergesi Community Unit, Samburu County, started her training on Trachoma through Leap the mHealth platform, she had no idea she...
The Samburu are a nomadic community well known for their love of livestock. Cultural limitations, ignorance, lack of role models and lack of education have all played a part in...
Kabiria Community Unit is one of the populous areas in Dagoretti Sub county, Nairobi County. Thousands of women of reproductive age are residents of Kabiria and a need has been...
Young men pulling carts, women selling groceries, children playing ‘kalongolongo’ (cookery game)…welcome to Ribakia Community Unit (CU), Embakasi West sub county, Nairobi County. Ribakia is home to thousands of households,...