Health Education and Support

A healthy community is a stable community. A healthy community is a community full of compassion and care. The health education and support Program include:

a) WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene)
This program aim to achieve:

  1. To provide clean drinking water for the people of Rusinga Island
  2. To provide safe drinking water to 50% of the schools and Fishing beaches within Rusinga Island
  3. To ensure that 90% of the people of Rusinga has toilets. 100% of all fishing beaches along Rusinga has toilet and community Bathrooms
  4. To build community toilets in all the fishing beaches along the shores of Rusinga Island by the end of 2027.
  5. To train communities and the learning institutions on all WASH programs.

b) Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Rights ( SRH&R) and Preventive Health
This programs aim to achieve:

  1. Train all primary schools and secondary school students within Rusinga Island on SRH&R).
  2. Train 200 Youths annually on SRH&R

c) PSEAH (Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harm)
This program aim to achieve:

  1. To train all the residents living along the fishing beaches about PSEAH
  2. To train 100 families per year about PSEAH and targeting 1000 families within Rusinga Island and Mbita town by the end of 2027.

d) Mental Health 

This programs aim to achieve:

To support community members by providing a safe centre where all the mental health trainings and support services can be accessed easily. We therefore intend to provide trainings on:

  1. Mental Health Awareness
  2. Sexual Harassment at workplace
  3. Managing Addiction and its challenges
  4. Family/Community Unity and Togetherness