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Community Health Workers accelerateUHC

Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Nurses go to ADRA Kenya Website and ‘Become ADRA’s paid Volunteers or Interns’ to accelerateUHC.

They nominate people for medical cover or ‘vote’ for people that have already been nominated. A typical CHW (Mary, for example), who is an adult with minimum high school education, uses her tablet or smartphone to nominate a person (Tom, for example) for medical cover. During the on-line nomination, Mary lists 11 members of Tom’s extended family.

Whenever Tom and or any member of his extended family gets sick, they walk to any of clinics or hospitals in a long list of medical service providers. In the event that none of the clinics or hospitals is a walking distance away from Tom’s home, the ADRA Volunteers enable Tom to be served virtually.

From pharmacies, the volunteers also bring Tom medicine that is prescribed during the virtual service.

For each of such services, the volunteers and or interns are paid.  

They are paid also whenever they distribute reusable sanitary towels to girls after gathering the girls and chatting with the girls about the towels.

They are also paid for keeping toilets clean at all times. Toilet cleaning may also involve gathering villagers, chatting with villagers about cleanliness and urging the villagers to clean the toilets for pay, especially where the toilets are on road sides.

Thanks to Ignatius’ Time Donation, we Donated Cash to World Vision

Due to Ignatius’ time donation in favour of his UHC Premiums nominee, we donated cash to World Vision. The donation to World Vision is for building toilets, see details.

“You decide what’s possible. Where others see a mountain, you see a summit. What they call the daily grind, you call the chance to prove yourself. When they say it can’t be done, you ask when you can start. You are going big and you are not going home. They see a child in poverty. You see dignity, beauty and hope. They say it’s a lost cause. But you can’t hear them over the sound of pushing all your chips in. The thing is, you’re never a world-changer. Until you are.” (Word Vision, Canada)

 

I’m glad we can count on your support

SDGSUPPORTERS,

We might be at a turning point in our life.

But what you and I do next will decide which way things turn.

SDGSUPPORTERS, we have all been working hard for the last 3 weeks. But keeping it that way won’t be easy.

We know that many companies and CEOs are yet to known about our call to them to also become SDGSUPPORTERS.

Our teams — powered by more than twenty thousand SDGSUPPORTERS like you — are what could make the difference.

SDGSUPPORTERS, I need you in this fight for the long haul. We need to keep reminding the companies and CEOs that we need them. Now, more than ever, we need a strong, nonpartisan alignment of every activity (including advertising) to SDGs (sustainable development goals).

That’s why I’m personally asking you to step up and support our vital work. Can you reach out to a company or CEO today?

We must provide water to the water starved — they are an important part of our society — sanitation and hygiene services to all that lack the same in our society.

I’m glad we can count on your support,

Sarah-Jane Brownlie, the team at RaHaSolutions

ELMOUHIB Imane

We couldn’t be more excited to share this news with you — just moments ago, Elmouhib Imane joined us.
She said ” I am Imane, I came from Morocco to work with RaHa Solution. I always had interest in water preservation. For me, coming to Kenya is a great opportunity to know more about the issues that people are facing when it comes to getting clean water, sanitation and hygiene services. I have come to work in order to improve their living standard.
I can’t wait to leave an impact in Kenya.”

PROVISION OF PUBLIC TOILETS

Good public toilets are important therefore, we increase accessibility and quality of public toilets; and we ensure everyone is working together on this. That is why we publish about the toilets we provide and toilets in general.

We publicly review the causes of decline, set out a range of approaches that go beyond the traditional public toilets, and encourage partnerships between roads and local authorities, the private sector, and local people to devise solutions that are tailored to the needs of different people at different times of the day.

Our publicity accentuates the positive: there are some excellent examples of approaches to promoting public access to toilets, often involving the private sector, and engaging pro-actively with local communities to ensure that their needs and priorities are met.

Importantly, we hope to take taboo out of toilets, to stimulate discussion, to achieve better provision, and to promote a positive shift in attitudes and approaches to the whole issue of toilet provision and use.

RENOVATING TOILETS DONE 6YRS AGO BY NIVEA, BEIERSDORF

This Madaraka Day, we were invited to renovate toilets that have been used for only 6 years. 6 years is a very short period of time for toilets to require renovation. Something must have been done wrongly.

To avoid making the same mistake, we ask: what happened, especially to the walls and floors?

A lack of good toilets affects not only the quality of our schools, it also reduces the dignity and quality of our lives. After all, they are one of the basic facilities that we depend on. Good quality provision instils confidence in public facilities as a whole, helps to inspire positive impressions, and contributes to many other important aspects of life.

It is important that children have the confidence that the facilities they need are available when they are in school – children rightly expect accessible, clean, safe and well maintained toilets.

GOVERNMENT APPROVES SANI SOLAR

See the self-explanatory letter of approving Sani solar toilets

ROADS IN KERICHO NOMINATED FOR TOILETS!

By Sandra Matata, AFS

Preparations for the toilets to be put up in Kericho are underway with the Kenya Roads Board promising to send us a ‘positive’ letter in response to our email. Raha Solutions has started negotiations with a dealer in containers, CONTECH， regarding design of the toilets (see above). We decided on containers because they are secure, fast, vaible and clean sanitation solution.

Alvin Rono, a bodaboda business person on the kericho-kapsoit route thinks the toilets will be of great help to the motorist community in Kericho and other motorists who use the route. They will no longer have to ease themselves in the thick bushes along the highway, he says. The toilets should have been on the road before the roads were opened for use, he agrees.

Sani Solar Toilets in shipping containers will ensure the needed efficient logistics and fast implementation.

KERICHO COUNTY ROADS NOMINATED FOR TOILETS – Update1

Recall that CS Samuel Keter nominated roads in Kerich County for toilets.

Recall also that we contacted roads authorities regarding the nomination.

We are happy to announce that Kenya Roads Board called us to say that they were sending us a ‘positive’ letter in response to our email.

Based on the call from Kenya Roads Board, we started negotiations with a dealer in containers regarding design of the toilets (see photo above). Containers because they are secure and fast –– we believe that the toilets should have been on the roads before the roads were opened for use therefore, Sani Solar toilets in shipping containers will ensure the needed efficient logistics and fast implementation.

We Have Joined Fight Inequality Alliance

RaHa joins Fight Inequality Alliance (FIA) because they #FightInequality. FIA is a global coalition which has organized a number of activities, including the global Fight Inequality Week of Action, to focus global attention on the scourge of inequality at regional, national, and local levels.

We #FightInequality whenever we #MakeWinners out of the water starved and the toilet-less –– we make winners because  winners keep winning; an idea formally known as cumulative advantage, or the Matthew effect; which explains how those who start with an advantage relative to others can retain that advantage over long periods of time.

YES: global economic inequality is staggering and shaming –– the number of billionaires rose by the biggest amount ever in 2017, half the world’s population lives on between $2 and $10 a day. The 2018 World Inequality Report shows the share of wealth held by the top 1% of earners in the US doubled from 10% to 20% between 1980 and 2016, while the bottom 50% fell from 20% to 13% in the same period.

BUT: think about the story you tell yourself about yourself. In all the lives you could be living, in all of the worlds you could simulate, how much did luck play a role in this one? Have you gotten more than your fair share? Have you had to deal with more struggles than most? Nick Maggiulli asks this question because accepting luck as a primary determinant in your life is one of the most freeing ways to view the world. Why? Because when you realise the magnitude of happenstance and serendipity in your life, you can stop judging yourself on your outcomes and start focusing on your efforts.

Your EFFORT is the only thing you can control. So don’t let good luck put you on a pedestal, #FightInequality without spending – #makerainsafe for you, promote rainwater harvesting  and promote rainwater protection. This will #MakeWinners.

Don’t let bad luck knock you down either—some of us are born with more advantages than others and some of us are born with less, but you should never let that define how hard you try — #FightInequality without spending. Start accumulating advantages, bottle rainwater for income, farm, car-wash… Win by having a reliable clean close toilet and water.

Listen to Kofi Annan, “…From the boardrooms of Wall Street to the streets of Athens, there is a growing consensus that the current economic model is not fit for purpose. We are far from agreement though on what should replace it. What is absolutely crucial is that the voices of the people most affected by inequality must be heard in the debates that follow”… (the emphasis is ours) …”This is why The Elders, a group of independent leaders founded by Nelson Mandela of which I have the honor to be the chair, is working with civil-society activists from the Fight Inequality Alliance to promote an inclusive, just, and bold agenda….”

For another day is the question, who is MOST affected by the inequality – the ‘winners’ are clearly most affected (they feel increasingly insecure) the same way the ‘losers’ are.

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