Programs
Proposed Health Clinic in Ndalani, Yatta, Kenya
This UPENDO innovation aims to improve access to medical help, food and nutrition for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, newborns, and young children, and to communicate accurate information on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition.
The roads in Ndalani are poor and inaccessible. People have to walk far to access health services. These health services are and not affordable to majority of the population that lives on less than a dollar a day. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in 13 children will die before their 15th birthday; 16 times more than children in countries like the US. Many people have no access to health education or preventive services, leading to major problems that could have been nonexistent or avoided at early stages.
We at UPENDO are excited to share our good news amid the current global challenges. We have received a promise for hospital equipment and the Ndalani community of Yatta, Kenya have donated the land on which to build a Health Clinic. We have organized a fundraiser to help acquire materials and equipment to construct the buildings.
Education
- Provide an opportunity to earn higher wages as adults
- Ensure the children raise healthier educated children of their own
- Allow the children to contribute to society
- Helps reduce child marriage and exploitation
Agriculture & Food Security
We fight hunger by addressing immediate needs for food through distribution of food stuffs to those in need. We also work to address hunger with more sustainable and long-term solutions by improving farming practices, improved seeds, and teaching communities and families to grow their own food and diversify their crops and consequently their diets.
Families are trained on improved seed varieties, crop diversification, value addition options, market opportunities.
Families are supported with access to resources of production.
Health
Promoting health and well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality, but working towards achieving the target of less than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030 would require improvements in skilled delivery care.
Achieving the target of reducing premature deaths due to incommunicable diseases by 1/3 by the year 2030 would also require more efficient technologies for clean fuel use during cooking and education on the risks of tobacco.
Many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. By focusing on providing more efficient funding of health systems, improved sanitation and hygiene, increased access to physicians and more tips on ways to reduce ambient pollution, significant progress can be made in helping to save the lives of millions.