PROGRAMS
Through our comprehensive care department, the Matibabu Foundation offers several community-centred programs.
Boda Girls Project
Boda Girls aims to improve awareness and access to healthcare, education, and self-employment for girls and women in our community by providing training and boda boda's to women to create businesses. Boda Girls will educate on health issues, give free rides to the hospital for all women and girls, and provide health and self-esteem education and menstrual supplies to girls at schools and in the community.
Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
At Matibabu Hospital we are strong believers in community health for sustained healthcare for all. Our community-based rehabilitation program is dedicated to reaching those in the community unable to physically visit our facilities.
We focus our energies on supporting people with disabilities covering the Ugenga and Ugunja sub-counties in Siaya County, Western Kenya. We serve 200 members of our community living with special needs varying from mobility, convulsive, and developmental disorders.
Our dedicated team of specialists conducts home visits, diagnoses, prescribes medication and treatments conducts treatments such as physiotherapy, and where required prescribes corrective surgery.
50
people received mobility devices
100
people received continuous medication
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people living with disabilities supported regularly
The program is driven by four pillars:
Health: We reach those in need with medication, provide mobility devices, conduct physiotherapy and facilitate surgery for those who require it.
Education: We enroll children in formal schools to train in vocational skills to build economic independence.
Social inclusion: We train our clients on their rights as people living with disability and organize and run support groups and sports to keep them engaged and integrated into society.
Livelihoods: Encourage and support clients to establish self-help groups to build economic independence.
Sexual and Reproductive Health
In collaboration with the Days for Girls Foundation, Matibabu Foundation offers sexual and reproductive health care and information to adolescent girls in the Ugenya sub-county in Siaya County.
100 schools have received sexual and reproductive health education
450 boys received sexual and reproductive health education
1000 girls received sexual and reproductive health education
The program conducts:
Peer education, which bolsters the peer educators’ program in schools to ensure sustained discussion and information sharing on reproductive health;
Distribution of sanitary pads and contraceptives; and
Sexual and reproductive health education on menstrual hygiene, contraception, and reproductive rights.
Nutricare Program
Nutricare Program
Matibabu Foundation is working towards reducing malnutrition in rural Kenya through treatment of severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition, Health education on smart farming, preparing meal plan and diet therapy and counseling on non-communicable diseases. We also do mass distribution of vitamin A and Albendazole for deworming donated by our partners Vitamin angels. In our Nutricare program, we are also supporting cancer patients; we have donated cone gardens to them so that they can have a healthy and balanced diet of fortified food.
The program is designed to empower individuals to achieve optimal health by offering personalized consultations, meal plans and ongoing support from experienced nutritionists and health professionals.
Red Pride Project
Red Pride Project
The Red Pride project is a Matibabu Foundation Kenya and USAID -Western Kenya Sanitation Project (USAID-WKSP) co-created project that envisions increasing access and uptake of market-based improved Menstrual Hygiene Management services and products at the Household level. The project’s primary beneficiaries are girls and women aged 10-49 years. The project is being implemented in the Gem and Rarieda sub-counties of Siaya County. The project focuses on breaking the silence on menstruation, safe and hygienic management of menstruation, and safe disposal of used menstrual products. Currently, the project has reached 8,915 (female 6548, male 2367) people with MHM information services and products.
The menstrual health challenges adolescent girls and young women face have a far-reaching impact on their health and social and economic opportunities. These challenges result in absenteeism in school and work and limited financial means to purchase menstrual products. As a result, those affected find alternative products and/or rely on transactional partnerships for assistance in obtaining menstrual products. Menstrual hygiene management is multi-faceted and includes issues of privacy, sanitary disposal, comfort, dignity, and cleanliness.
Sickle Cell Disease Program
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is the most widespread genetic disease in Africa, which affects haemoglobin, resulting in very painful, acute attacks and potentially fatal complications, especially in children. The condition limits the life expectancy of those living with the condition. In Africa, statistically, half of the children with the condition die before their fifth birthday.
To remedy this under-diagnosed condition, Matibabu Hospital provides subsidized medication to those living with the condition. This is thanks to a partnership with Swiss pharmaceutical company, NOVARTIS.
We run an outpatient clinic for those living with the condition and community support groups to educate them to ensure lives are prolonged allowing children to live a full life.
Cervical Cancer Prevention
Matibabu Hospital is a champion of women’s reproductive health, and we believe we can live in a world free of all cancer, particularly cervical cancer.
On 17 December 2021 in collaboration with the Lake Region Economic Bloc, the Office of the First Lady of Kenya, Tiba Foundation, Matibabu Foundation, our parent organization, distributed 25,000 scrubs donated by FIGS to healthcare workers our ambassadors of cervical cancer prevention.
The project will conduct free cervical cancer screening, cervical cancer treatment and HPV vaccination. In collaboration with ZanaAfrica and Kenya’s Ministry of Health, Matibabu Foundation will conduct outreach programs across the country screening women for cervical cancer, providing health education and assessing the cultural barriers barring women from accessing healthcare services.
This is a huge step towards reducing the cases of cervical cancer in the country. We are always seeking more partners and collaborators. If you are interested in partnering with us on this initiative, please contact us at info@matibabukenya.org.
Medical Camps
Access to universal healthcare in rural communities is the first step to achieving this goal. Access in rural communities means geographic access. However, due to the expanse of rural communities’ physical access to health facilities is difficult and at times is an arduous and expensive journey to health facilities.
Matibabu Hospital brings healthcare to the community in annual medical camps to mitigate this. In partnership with the Tiba Foundation, Fred Ogola Foundation and volunteer doctors from the USA rural communities across Ugunja and Ukwala sub-counties of Siaya County in Western Kenya get access to world-class medical assessment and surgical referrals and surgery. More than 20,000 people have been reached in annual camps conducted.