Annual Report 2009-10
Amref - Maanisha Youth HIV prevention sports day
Ogra Foundation recently participated in the Amref Maanisha Youth HIV prevention sports day held at Karanda Primary school in Ahero and 88 people were tested for VCT and 17 treated for STIs
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OGRA Foundation continues to grow from strength to strength, touching lives, making a difference on a day-to-day basis in the smallest way possible. In an era of extreme poverty, health is compromised and gains made could be lost. The provision of ARVs for example could have a disastrous effect if patients on the drugs do not have enough to eat. Therefore our major challenge is finding support to initiate IGAs to PLWAS especially and to mothers of children under five to keep the children free from preventable diseases.
In the post-election violence OGRA Foundation was instrumental to the formation of the rapid medical team that saved several lives of those injured during the skirmishes, those on ARVs who had their drug intake disrupted by stalled PSC services and those who when running to safety could not carry with them their ARVs. OGRA reinstated this.
OGRA provided drugs for common ailments and planned outreaches to the heavily affected outskirts of Kisumu, giving treatment and conducting minor surgeries to remove bullets lodged peoples bodies, while transferring those in need of major or complicated surgeries to Port Florence Hospital. This response covered the entire Nyanza/western Kenya from Busia to Suba, to Kakamega and Mumias.
Overall we have made great strides in our core businesses area of making medicare available and affordable to the underserved populations in our project sites.
