Meet Josephine Mukoya Kweyu, one of the Nasio Trust’s Guardians and Beneficiaries.
Josephine, a widow and mother of 7 girls, was born in Bumini village in 1968. She was the firstborn in a family of 7 (2 boys and 5 girls). She attended Bumini primary school where she sat for her CPE in 1983, and later joined Shikoti Girls Secondary school, then Amukura Girls where she did her secondary school national exams.
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Recorded during our virtual lunch conference in November 2020
Josephine speaks from the heart about the importance of education in her family's life.
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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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Rajab, one of our sponsored Nasio children, is currently volunteering at the medical centre now that his final year medical studies have been put on hold due to Covid-19.
Rajab has also taken the opportunity to train with our spirulina production team. He’s developed a keen interest to learn more about spirulina as he’s seen the benefits it can deliver as he helped support families impacted by the flooding.
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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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It has since been published to critical acclaim and compared to the work of WH Auden.
Esme Thomas (17) was inspired to write a wonderful poem after visiting our projects in Kenya.
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I am Musindalo Japheth. A total orphan and of the Nasio Trust Beneficiaries. I joined the Nasio Trust organization in the year 2009.
This was after the death of my mother and my brother which occurred the same year. The two incidences were indeed a big blow to my entire life. They left me not only hopeless but also homeless after a place I used to call a home was demolished.
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Emmanuel is one of our new Peer Educators who is also a 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.
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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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