Blog: Africa

Isiolo Empowerment Centre, Kenya

Our GHNI Empowerment Centre is where many young women are equipped with life skills to help themselves. This involves social, economic, and psychosocial support due to the complex background each and every one of them is coming from. They all have their different and unique stories. The Centre has been a place where all get to share their situations and also encourage each other as they get to know one another better. 

Attir Village, Kenya

It has been long hours for Community Health Volunteers (CHVS) in Attir Village as they work day after day in educating villagers about health issues in the community. Here in Attir Village, people don’t know much about cleanliness; they only know how to care after their own animals. When it comes to body cleanliness, house cleanliness, and compound cleanness, this seems like new information to them. 

Ezbit el Amir Village, Egypt

From the lessons provided in Ezbet El Amir Village about adolescence and how to overcome this difficult stage in dealing with children, there must be a conversation so that we listen to each other without reacting angrily.
 

Helwan Village, Egypt

Women of Helwan

Ezbit el Nakhl Village, Egypt

Women of Ezbit el Nakhl

The mother of Amgad always complained of pain in her knee and back. When she was tired, she resorted to painkillers because the pain was severe. She went to the doctor and took many medications, but when the medication period ended, she was complaining and in pain again.
 

Upper Egypt Village Cluster, Egypt

In Nubian villages, as we endure this hard time, we stopped all of our activities because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and, as part of our responsibility towards people and the community, we developed educational awareness about the virus in the villages that we work. We taught them how to keep their houses clean and can be done to avoid this virus.
 

Attakassikro and Effaoho, Côte d’Ivoire

Teti, our Transformational Community Development (TCD) worker in Côte d’Ivoire, concentrated on finishing the school building in Effaoho despite the challenges faced. The work is progressing. 

Ngassa Village, Cameroon

This quarter saw our staff, Babalola, alongside Joshua and Jeremiah, working in the northern Cameroon region where they engaged the youth by teaching the dangers of drug abuse. Locals were also taught food preservation and storage techniques, as well as the importance of eating a balanced diet.

Bankim, Cameroon

Koubah Bingo, Burkina Faso

The first quarter of the year went by so quickly for Fatima and Mainasara.  At the beginning of the year, soon after the holidays, attention was prioritised on the milling machine project which the Transformational Community Development (TCD) workers supervised to ensure that the refund of the loan begins.