News and Case Studies

By Marion Kwambai

 In Ng’imuriae village in Kerio Ward, Turkana Central, three young girls under four years attend an integrated health outreach with their mother Margret Ekaru. This is her second visit to the outreach center which pitches camp here every two weeks.

By Aggrey Omboki

A mother with her children in Turkana. According to the Save the Children report, Wajir is one of the regions that have global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates of between 15 and 29 per cent. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By Jeckonia Otieno

Rukia Ahmed’s one-year-old gets four injections at once under a tree at El Yunis, 40km from Wajir town.

This is the first time the child is being immunized after birth. The outreach supported by humanitarian organization, Save the Children, provides hope for many members of the nomadic community.

Ms Ahmed and her family live about 60km from the nearest heath facility and with constant movement in search of water and pasture, health is on a back-burner, leaving many children uncovered by crucial services like vaccination. 

By Jeckonia Otieno

A three-door unused classroom block stands on the edge of Balatraha village, some 125 kilometres from Wajir town.

The structure, which was constructed earlier this year by the Tarbaj Constituency Development Fund (CDF), was meant to bring education closer to the children of the nomadic community living in this village.

By Jeckonia Otieno

A cart carrying five children and a woman stops under a thorny shurb at El Yunis, some 40 kilometres north of Wajir Town

Pulling it are two donkeys directed by Jimale Dakane. They have taken three thours to cover a 15km didtance from their village to arrive here for the much needed health services.