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Areas of Mumias West devastated by flooding

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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Meet Emmanuel The Fish Farmer
August 2020

Emmanuel is one of our new Peer Educators who is also a keen fish farmer!

Emmanuel Okumu Odongo is 20 years old and a third year student in Fisheries and Aqua Culture Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.

Emmanuel’s father deserted him when he was 13. Their mother moved to Mumias town to help with her sister’s small business, buying and selling fish. This gave her an income to support her children.

Emmanuel volunteered with us during our Coronavirus awareness campaigns. We then recruited and trained him as a peer educator and he now supports our young people in fish farming.

He has also done an excellent job managing Nasio’s donation store during the recent floods.

Given his background, Emmanuel has now decided to spearhead and manage Nasio’s fish farming projects working closely with the other young people involved in running the ponds whilst universities are closed due to Covid-19.

Nasio’s first fish-pond, generously funded by The Egmont Trust is now thriving with over 1,100 fish.

Emmanuel is doing a great job of engaging our children positively in fish farming whilst schools are closed until January 2021. They are now working on a second pond. The fish produced will be used to improve the diet of our children and any surplus sold to generate income.

Emmanuel is so happy and blessed to have met Nasio Trust as an organization, and we’re extremely thankful to have him.

This story is listed in: Child Stories, Flooding, Projects

"I had no hope of being educated but now have the chance to access education, food, clothing and medication. I will work hard and dream to become a builder, to construct homes for people who don’t have shelter."
Saidi Makokha (aged 9 – supported by Nasio)

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The Nasio Trust Annual Report 2023

We’re pleased to present our annual report for 2023. Find out what Nasio achieved and celebrate with us. Download your online version by clicking here now.

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Publishing in Africa at the London Book Fair By Katie Isbester

In further support of the Nasio Trust’s Library appeal, Katie Isbester talks about her recent trip to the London Book Fair and a fortuitous discovery!

I didn’t mean to go to the talk. There were some 30,000 people at the London Book Fair and I was supposed to meet at least a few of them. Instead I found myself going to a talk on publishing in Africa because of Nasio Trust. I knew it was trying to build a library, the first of its kind in Western Kenya, and I was rather curious.

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Nasio’s Medical Centre Nominated for an Award

We are pleased to share that Nasio’s GMK Medical Centre was nominated for the award of Primary Care Provider of the Year at the Quality Healthcare Kenyan Awards, 2024.

It was nominated from among 48,000 healthcare providers and was among the top 11 nominees.

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