TV 47- Project Officer for Education, Joshua Omweno, Interviewed about BIC and CFK Africa Collaboration
May 18, 2024
“We understand that education is one of the most effective tools in addressing poverty.”
“We understand that education is one of the most effective tools in addressing poverty.”
“CFK Africa has established through their research that when learners are supported to access quality education, then they come to school and stay in school.”
“The crisis in accessible healthcare services caused by the Kenyan medical workers’ strike has been compounded by major flooding across the country,” said Jeffrey Okoro”
“Residents were given little notice to evacuate and gather their belongings, and there has not been a proposed resettlement area.”
“For [CFK Africa] as an organization we first started by mapping out the disaster areas just knowing who’s been affected by what. Thereafter we started coordinating the kind of help that can be provided.”
“They tell us that the men leave to make money for the family, but the women are left to guard what is left. There is also a lot of insecurity, so someone has to stay to guard the home,” Mr. Okoro said.
“Given the current medical strike that the country has, this is just going to pile on pressure to an already strained system.”
“Non-profit CFK Africa said its facility in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Kenya, had witnessed a 200 percent increase in deliveries.”
“Kibera is just a small portion of what’s happening in the country,” said Okoro.
“I am grateful for CFK Africa’s dedicated healthcare workers who are facing these new challenges head-on. They have confronted referrals to our clinic from public hospitals outside the scope of our primary care services that strain our resources.”