Activities: Health & Nutrition
This is an ideal intervention area as most community members, especially women and girls, are living in a high risk environment dependent on the sex trade to support themselves and their families. Exposure to HIV/AIDS, STIs and early childbirth greatly affect the ability of many community members to play an active role in their personal development.
AKCCCD is committed to supporting government initiatives in the provision of primary health facilities to promote universal access to pre and post natal services, immunization, child welfare clinics and treatment of diseases.
AKCCCD has made a concerted effort, working with the community, to address some of the issues in this area.
Key Activities
- Establishing anti-AIDS youth clubs where discussions and awareness sessions on HIV/AIDS, STIs, FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
- Establishing monthly coffee ceremonies where community members can discuss issues about sexual and reproductive health
- Combating malnutrition by providing food supplements to affected children, the elderly and those with HIV/AIDS and TB.
- Diagnosing and treating diseases such as TB, HIV/AIDS, Typhoid, and other communicable illnesses, as well as bone, skin and internal ailments at our on-site clinic
- Establishing an insurance co-operative so that all families can access medical treatment
- Reproductive health and family planning services to monitor the health of mothers
- Child immunization and de-worming programs in the community
- Pre- and post-natal care for mothers
- Providing training on urban agriculture, based on cultivation of the commonly used vegetables in our model demonstration garden, to women and children