A Day in the Life of Youth Peer Provider Hezborn
February 20, 2025
As a YPP, Hezborn connects youth in Kibera with mental health counseling and health services at CFK Africa’s Youth Friendly Services Center.
As a YPP, Hezborn connects youth in Kibera with mental health counseling and health services at CFK Africa’s Youth Friendly Services Center.
“There is a lot of misunderstanding on what aid or development work is. To me, it restores dignity, brings out the best in humanity, and lessens suffering, and I think that is missed from a lot of the current news stories on the pullback of aid,” said CFK Africa Executive Director Jeffrey Okoro.
“We know the sport is a unique unifier and provides an avenue for building momentum for behavioral change and living safely and responsibly,” he told the Star in an interview.
The Kenya Ministry of Health recently approved the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DPV-VR), a long-acting HIV prevention product that the World Health Organization recommends for women who are at substantial risk of contracting the virus.
CFK Africa and Save the Children are partners in fighting to lessen the burden of pneumonia and other healthcare inequities across informal settlements in Kenya.
“Indeed, paramedics, like Okumu are the unsung heroes of the critical medical emergency ecosystem.”
CFK Africa recently received three awards for its work providing health care in Kibera.
Leading public health NGO CFK Africa offers five actionable steps for fighting the potential surge of Mpox in Kenya’s informal settlements and elsewhere throughout the country.
CFK Africa Nutritionist Esther Opana was interviewed for a feature during World Breastfeeding Week.
“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.”