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KARED-FOD WOMEN'S GROUP DISPENSARY/CLINIC 
NYATIKE DISTRICT, KENYA

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Kared-Fod Women group (KWG) is a community-based organization located in rural area Nyatike district of western Kenya. KWG was established in 1990 as a non-profit. Its mission is to enable vulnerable/low-income people to become effective agents of development and change, to empower women and to reduce poverty in the community. There are 30 members of which 23 are women.


KWG provides a programme called "The Children Behind", a home-based care project that forms part of the community response to address the above problems. This project is active in Nyatike district, with support from the Stephen Lewis Foundation (Canada). The program is currently serving 279 Orphans and Vulnerable Children and 76 People Living with AIDS. It provides interventions in clinical and basic nursing care, guidance and counseling, educational support, nutrition and emergency food assistance, an Early Childhood Development (ECD) feeding programme, clothing and shelter support, prevention and life skills education. There is no building from which to base this care.


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There are few health services in the project area. The few that do exist are spread far apart and are costly to access.

In order to provide improved Health Services to the people of this community, the Kared-Fod Women's Group, with funding from CanAssist built a dispensary/clinic building in 2012. The clinic will be staffed by three Community Health Workers and a Registered Nurse. It will be able to provide First Response health care, prenatal care, uncomplicated deliveries, immunization, malaria diagnosis and treatment and also be able to provide AntiRetroviral Treatment to HIV/AIDS patients.


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In 2013, CanAssist funded construction of sanitation facilities (latrine and water access) for the new clinic. We received word in October that the clinic had opened to receive patients.   We wish them well.


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