CHASE Africa was at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) in Nairobi on 12th - 14th Nov, along with over 6,000 other participants from 170 countries, celebrating 25 years since the first ICPD conference. The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 concluded, in the Kenyan capital, with bold commitments to transform the world by working towards 3 [...]
Today, we launch our first Big Give campaign - all donations doubled from 3rd - 10th December! In Kenya, women can travel up to 58 kilometres to reach their nearest health service and receive family planning. We met Nancy in Kenya last month at a rural outreach clinic run by our partner Mount Kenya Trust. One hour’s drive down [...]
We are delighted to have received funding through the UK's Department of International Development (DFID) for the first time. The two year project will support our work with partner Community Health Volunteers to: • Deliver basic health and family planning services to poor rural communities in western Kenya. • Help address the unmet need for family planning in Kenya [...]
The Thriving Together campaign recognises that family planning is critically important not only for women and girls but also for the environmentToday, CHASE Africa joins over 150 other leading environmental and reproductive health organisations to pledge support for a first-of-its-kind campaign: Thriving Together. Organisations that have signed up to the Thriving Together campaign form a diverse global alliance united by [...]
This June, we held a 3-day meeting with nine of our Kenyan partners near Nakuru, Kenya. The objective was to share learning across our Family Planning and Tree Planting Programmes and agree on ways forward to strengthen both the capacity of our partner organisations and the impact and effectiveness of our interventions. Given that we mostly work through small [...]
Based on a grant from CHASE, our partner Communities Health Africa Trust (CHAT) have visited 45 communities in eight counties around Mount Kenya bringing family planning services and advice to areas in great need of their service. Over 7,000 people were reached over the two months of the outreach. CHAT work with grass roots mobilisers who reach out to their [...]
We have received more news from our partner, Mount Kenya Trust. “Supplies of family planning commodities are getting harder to source as the year continues. Ministry of Health hospitals have dwindling supplies and almost all short-term contraceptives are impossible to find. We are working hard with partners and the government to deal with the shortages. During the month a total [...]
We’ve had news from Gabriel Musundi, founder and CEO of Community Health Volunteers – CHASE Africa’s partner based in Kakamega, western Kenya. There is an ongoing nurses’ strike in Kenya over pay and conditions that is affecting health services across the country. The current iteration of the strike began at the beginning of June, though there have been strikes going [...]
We have recently received news from our partner, Mount Kenya Trus (MKT) of their recent mobile clinics in Embu County. Below are two stories gathered by MKT about their work. Rebecca When the Community Health Service Programme was started in Embu County, Rebecca, a 26 year old mother of three, was among the beneficiaries of the family planning programme. Rebeccas [...]
2016 was a very exciting year. Our income grew by over 60% enabling us to expand our work in Kenya and to start our first project in Uganda. We have always wanted to expand our work into neighbouring countries, many of which have population growth rates higher than that of Kenya. There are many excellent NGOs working to give [...]