Nasio’s Christmas 2020 appeal was a great success and many families benefitted from our Christmas boxes which contained a wind-up radio along with a food parcel and an item of clothing for a child.
The wind-up radio was included as a direct response to the Covid-19 situation, providing a way of ensuring that important information reaches our poor, vulnerable communities.
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Thank you to all who have supported Nasio through buying alternative gifts in 2020!
Our Anniversary appeal this year will focus on raising funds to expand our amazing medical centre so that we are able to provide even more lifesaving healthcare to our vulnerable communities. Last year as a direct result of your help an incredible 11,052 patients were treated at our medical centre – we are looking forward to providing help to even more patients this year.
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It is six months since our community response to the COVID-19 pandemic began. Nasio is the only charity supporting these vulnerable and marginalised Mumias and Musanda communities.
Our team have been working tirelessly with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and Government to fill a critical gap in the provision of essential services including healthcare, clean water and sanitation.
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Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, to help combat the spread of the virus, The Nasio Trust has focused on making handwashing more accessible to over 45,000 people living in the Mumias West area in rural Kenya.
The Nasio Trust have worked with the Kenyan Ministry of Health to set up over 150 handwashing ‘Tippy Tap’ stations, a hands-free way to wash your hands. They have also donated 150 hand washing containers to regional farmers and a further 250 hand washing containers to families and flood centres.
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The risks of keeping schools closed far outweigh the benefits especially for our children and their families from poor communities.
Children out of school are more likely to suffer abuse, early teenage pregnancies, malnutrition and poor mental health. Many girls will be married off or urged to give up their studies and start work to support the family. With the school closure girls are most at risk.
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In different parts of the world right now, we are all learning to be a little more resilient with ourselves and especially with everyone around us.
Personally, I was looking forward to joining our Nasio school teachers in Kenya in March to deliver our second Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) program, but due to Covid-19, it had to be postponed. Postponed till the day I got a message from Ian Mbati, our Nasio schools head teacher, humbly asking “how can we develop our teachers during the quarantine?” At that moment I realized that our ECDE program must not be postponed, instead it should be reinvented.
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Last week Nancy was interviewed over the airwaves from Kenya about Nasio’s ongoing COVI-19 relief effort.
If you missed the interview (which unfortunately was subject to some patchy network quality) you can listen again here.
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As our supporters will know, the rural communities we support in western Kenya are being hit hard by COVID-19. We’re now sad to report that the river Nzoia in Mumias has burst its banks and is in flood.
With heavy rain now predicted for at least the next 7 days, there's no sign of improvement in the situation.
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We’ll use this page to keep you up to date with all the work we’re doing to combat COVID-19 in Kenya.
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Thanks to our wonderful, generous supporters we smashed the target for our Daymark Covid Appeal and raised £16,250 which The Daymark Fund then doubled in full.
Many thanks to everyone who supported this campaign. Donations ranged from £5 upwards and every penny counted. We even had supporters who ran sponsored relay-marathons in their garden and other sponsored runs! We feel incredibly blessed by our Friends of Nasio.
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