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Community Home-based Care |
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Due to great need to care for PLWA at home, where they can recieve family love and support at minimal costs, KIKOSHEP has initiated home based care to PLWA in Kibera. Clients also come from other places in nairobi and other distant places. These activities are offered through the programme nurses, social workers, community volunteers, the youth and religious leaders who are well trained to offer counseling services, to both the infected and the affected. The range of services include treatment, cleaning, washing, bathing, cooking, shopping and so on. |
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The youth center is a gathering place for Kibera’s youth. Youth drop in throughout the week to use the center’s services, which include CHIC, Community Health Information Center—a computer lab offering free access to health information, counseling, and recreational services including video games, movies, and sports among other things.
Moreover, the center provides youth with a place to relate to others their age in a safe secure environment and discuss issues that concern their generation and their community. The aim here is capacity building for self-sufficiency among youth. Also youth are trained on income generating projects for their own self-sustainability. |
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The unit, also referred to as the “centre,” is based in the Kichinjio area next to the railway line. Within the unit the programme operates a walk-in service encompassing general treatment, maternity, counseling, condom distribution, HIV/AIDS awareness and immunization. Also within the center is a modern pharmacy where drugs can be purchased for a minimal fee. There are three beds for 24-hour observation, which are used to monitor patients before transferring them to Mbagathi District Hospital. |
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At the center orphaned children are cared for by KICOSHEP’s home-based care program where they are fed and provided with treatment, clothing, education and vocational training. |
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