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November 06, 2018 www.mygov.go.ke NEWSFOCUS | 29 The amount was “princely” and could have bought three or four mansions back then. She shares that they neither felt deprived nor did they hesitate to spend their savings on educating youth in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, health and sanitation and conflict resolution. The Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation pitched in to help. When the Ministry of Youth was established, the couple thought the government would leverage on their successful model to do its duty towards the youth. However, she says, “It has been disheartening that interest in youth work has been very little.” Still, Uzima has successfully worked with more than 100,000 youth in Nairobi, Nyanza, Western and Mombasa. But it has not been without its challenges. Were recounts how they were low on funds and discouraged by lack of support and pondered shutting down in 2007. The tenacity paid off. In January 2008, post-election violence erupted. Someone phoned Were to ask if she had read the newspaper. It turned out that in Nairobi, an Uzima girl, was applying her conflict resolution skills to help stop the post-poll vioing let’s make it official, the government finally sat up and took notice.” They began by creating a national curriculum for the training of trainers, who would, in turn, train at the county, sub-county, and village level. Village health workers would then educate men and women in disease prevention. They would also be qualified to treat certain acute illnesses on the ground. “Eighty per cent of our children die from diarrhoea and pneumonia. Nurses practising in villages can easily administer antibiotics,” she reckons. With her communitybased healthcare background, Were’s professional journey has been to support the implementation of the adage, ‘prevention is better than cure’, by focusing on reducing the incidence of illness and death in the grassroots. She says that these measures have proved cheaper and eased pressure on health centres, enabling them to treat more complex, noncommunicable diseases. She shares that “overstretched doctors tend to prioritise children in the queue, suffering from diarrhoea or vomit, yet these are highly preventable illnesses. It’s easy to overlook the It’s easy to overlook the child with undiagnosed congenital heart disease or leukaemia because 400 patients are waiting, and you can only give two minutes to each patient. - Miriam Khamadi Were lence. The scenario was replicated. “In different parts of the country, Uzima youth would stand in front of these wild, fellow youths and say, ‘Let’s talk. Please put out the flames.’” Were believes that youth have great potential, if nurtured. When she retired from the UN in 2000, Were chaired Kenya’s National AIDS Control Council (NACC) and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) for some years. Meanwhile, although the Ministry of Health had steadily increased funding for hospitals and clinics, mothers and children were still dying. Baffled, the ministry formalised the Community Health Strategy, which she and fellow colleagues had been advocating for. It was now time for Were to support the government by applying her expertise for the health and well-being of Kenyans. It is for this reason that Were considers 2006 one of her best years. “After 30 years of saychild with undiagnosed congenital heart disease or leukaemia because 400 patients are waiting, and you can only give two minutes to each patient.” She feels that as long as medical practitioners are preoccupied with the preventable diseases, they can barely treat the non-communicable diseases.” Women are a key solution to solving this health challenge, she says, as they are the custodians of families and villages. She adds that, as primary caregivers, they are responsible for keeping families healthy. As a mother, wife, educator and community health advocate, she says: “We mustn’t underrate ourselves. We can be who we want to be.” Her husband has been a strong source of support for the champion health practitioner. She favours cooperation over confrontation and shows her husband deep respect through consultation. Teamwork in financial matters has kept their marriage strong, she says. The don cautions on the pitfalls of women-empowerment approaches that humiliate men. During her visits to the village, Were would notice that men always held back and thought they were either lazy or disinterested. Talking to them, she found they were KENYA RAILWAYS TENDER NOTICE REGISTRATION OF SUPPLIERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR 2018-2020 Kenya Railways invites sealed bids from eligible and competent candidates for Registration of Suppliers as detailed in the Tender Document as follows; NO. 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