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Welcome to Kenya Sustainable Health Aid (KESHA) - Tana River Program is a Community Organization working with poor and marginalized communities in Kenya  since 2006.Tana River District is named after the River Tana  above (Galana maro)

The target communities are:

  1. The slum community of Kawangware and Dagoretti constituency of Nairobi west district
  2. The marginalized communities of Tana River District.



Target population:

Marginalized and slum communities
The NGO’s objective is to improve the socio-economic, health and education status of the target communities.

The NGO has the following programs:

1. Research 4. Community Development
2. Health 5. Water and Sanitation Engineering
3. Education 6. Civic Education
   

Activities
To implement the above programs KESHA has the following community sustainable activities:

  1. Health care and education services
  2. VCT services
  3. Malaria control and prevention
  4. Home based care for PLWHA
  5. Tana River Governance and Democracy Forum
  6. Youth resource centre for drug and crime prevention.
  7. Social and public health research including projects evaluations
  8. Construction of water and sanitation infrastructures.
  9. Nutrition improvement through support to micro-irrigation farming
  10. Volunteer program
  11. Training and support to community based organization.
  12. Orphans and Vulnerable Children sponsorship.
  13. Environmental Conservation and Eco-tourism

Partners and donors

International Partners:

- Rosalind Hopton /Ethiopian Mission Network Inc
- Chuck Lane - Webmaster and Cat Lane - Volunteer
- Dr. Patricia Barrington—Bread and Soup Organization  www.breadandsoup.org
- Teachers without borders

Local Partners:

- Government Ministries and projects - KANCO
- Tana River ALRMP II - World Bank - Nairobi Based NGO’s Consortium
- USAID - NPC
- NACC - Local CBO's and community
- Women researchers of Kenya - Urai - Civic organization
- Humanitaire Medico Pharmaceutique - Transparency International Kenya
- Malaria control program-MOH  


Shedrack Hiribae

Shedrack O. Hiribae
Executive Director


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