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Kenya

Nomadic Communities Trust
The Nomadic Communities Trust (NCT) is a Kenyan-registered community based organization (CBO), which, through means of a mobile medical clinic, offers health care services to the communities of the Samburu district. Most of these communities are pastoralist, either transient or living in remote regions, and often lack adequate access to basic health resources. Clinic services include Reproductive Health and Family Planning advice, HIV/AIDS awareness (including Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and provision of non-antiretroviral health services (NAHS)), basic primary health facilities, immunization, and information on Female Genital Mutilation.

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Medical & Community Project – Limuru
There are over a million orphans in Kenya mainly due to AIDS, of which only 5% get any kind of support. There is a huge need for assisting orphanages and children’s homes. Since June 2007 at their project base just outside of Nairobi, African Impact has offered volunteers the chance to develop the Limuru Children’s Centre, including re-painting the dorms and outside walls, building a new fence on the plot and funding Christmas presents for one hundred and fifty children.

Involvement at The Nest Home in 2007 centred around funding a large portion of Baby Lucy’s hospital bills for the reconstructive surgery she needed after being raped at the age of just three months. Volunteers also assisted with general child care of twenty to thirty babies and toddlers three mornings a week and have made an enormous difference to these severely undeveloped and vulnerable children.

Challenging but rewarding work in Nairobi’s Makuru Slums entailed volunteer assistance at the Imara Health Care Centre. Here involvement included funding for imperative monthly medicine supplies, immunising fifty to seventy babies on Saturdays and assisting with the births of two children. The schools in the slums also benefited, with volunteers tackling the painting of over six classrooms and two nursery rooms as well as vital assistance and teaching support. Home Based Care in the slums provided counsel, support and food to ten HIV positive women on a weekly basis, as well as holding an HIV awareness seminar.

As this project moves into 2008 we will be supporting African Impact with the following project development goals: 

● To establish a weekly HIV awareness program in the slum community
● To set up a poor patients fund at Kikuyu Hospital
● To expand project support to further needy clinics and communities
● To assist with the expansion of the clinic in the slums
● To help meet any needs the Orphanage may have in improving its facilities, so that it becomes a better environment for the children to live in ● Schools facilities’ development in the Limuru and slum areas where African Impact is involved.

“Without sounding trite, living in Africa and volunteering in this way has profoundly influenced my perspectives and outlook on life. I re-evaluated my personal relationships, the way I interact with people, the things I value, my approach to material possessions, and my overall career goals. To say I loved living there would be an understatement.”
Victoria Blackwell-Hardie, UK.

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