Tag Archives | kenya

Why men are lining up in droves to be circumcised

By on October 12, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In a recent report from FH field staff in Kenya, one of the challenges listed to FH’s new Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision program was that every day, there was a long line of men waiting for the procedure–more men than the project could handle. The World Health Organization reports that circumcision lowers by about 60 percent the risk of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

VIDEO: Two years on, AIDS clinic in rural Kenya flourishes

By on September 28, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In one of the most remote places on the planet, you’ll find a small clinic with cutting-edge technology for treating HIV/AIDS and other ailments. The Tumaini Medical Center was built in Marsabit, northern Kenya–a region also known in Kenya as the Northern Forgotten District–in 2009. It was the product of a unique collaboration between Blood:Water Mission, [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Overcoming the impossible in the dry hills of Kenya

By on September 7, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Sometimes, a problem is so formidable that it’s hard ever to imagine a solution for it. This may have been how families felt in Parkishon, Northern Kenya before FH convinced them they could overcome once very essential problem: access to clean water. Eight hours. That’s how long Parkishon’s women and children used to walk to get [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Striving to help mothers give birth to an HIV-free generation

By on September 2, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

“I think this is one of the best things we could ever do for HIV; it’s one of the most successful prevention methods,” says FH’s HIV/AIDS programs coordinator, Kim Buttonow, MPH. “You can have an HIV-free generation.” By expanding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), children of HIV-positive mothers actually could choose whether to protect [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

What do actress Anne Hathaway and this Kenyan armed guard have in common?

By on August 31, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

They each have different genders, different skin colors, different languages, and very different day-to-day lives. But both Anne Hathaway and the armed guard below know that women and girls in Northern Kenya are in danger–they desperately need to be protected, especially during this time of extreme drought. This man stands guard as women and girls [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Babies benefit when their mothers learn about exclusive breastfeeding

By on August 26, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In Northern Kenya, an area currently suffering from extreme drought and lack of food, mothers are experiencing what a difference breastfeeding makes for their infants. In the U.S., exclusive breastfeeding doesn’t mean the difference between life and death, but it can in places where clean water is scarce and baby formula doesn’t exist. “When I compare Luko [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Helping families in Kenya adapt to drought, using their own resources

By on August 19, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In the desperately dry deserts of Northern Kenya, thousands of people have found themselves dependent on foreign aid for food in recent years. FH is teaching families how to use what they already have in a way that will ensure their survival and even prosperity in the midst of extreme drought and an unpredictable climate. [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Drought crisis in Horn of Africa unabated

By on August 16, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, World Poverty

This article was originally published by Mission Network News.  To read the article in its original format, please visit: http://www.mnnonline.org/article/16090.   Kenya (MNN) – Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing famine and fighting in Somalia are arriving in Kenya where refugee camps are now reaching capacity. In a press briefing Friday, UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards said the [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Seven ways women and girls are especially vulnerable during emergencies

By on August 10, 2011 in Disaster Relief, Sponsor Impact

I always sort of had an idea that women and girls living in extreme poverty suffered a bit more than men from disasters like war, a flood, an earthquake or a drought — it just seems logical, if you think about it. But I had no idea how much more acutely they feel pain from [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

DROUGHT: Horn of Africa

By on July 29, 2011 in Sponsor Impact, World Poverty

This blog was originally posted on Food for the Hungry’s Emergency Response Unit blog.  To view this article in its original format, please visit:http://fhrelief.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/horn-of-africa-drought/   It was imminent. The periods between droughts in east Africa had been growing shorter and shorter. The rains have failed, again, barely two years since the skies dried up.Just as [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }