Training Initiatives

Expanded food security and crop surplus businesses through successful growth of our Common Interest Groups (CIGs), related Farmer Trainers, and Cooperative Farm Groups
Continued hosting of regular group meetings to support the development of all agricultural and related marketing and business practices

It is imperative that we expand the scale and reach of these programs to ensure the same agricultural and economic development proven in the immediate communities can encompass a larger area that includes 700,000 residents.

Women learning about water issues.

Typical farm before Sasa Harambee-designed training.

Crops are sparse and often inflicted with pests. Food security was rarely possible and never consistent.

Farming success with training.

These ground nuts attest to the prolific, agricultural possibilities available in the area. This farm is run by a single woman who not only has food security, but a successful agribusiness.

Shared labor ensures community wellness.

Learning about composting

Intercropping

Ground nuts

Typical farm before training

Demar's new home was made possible thru sustainable agri-practices

Plant health through diversification

Producing surplus

Organic Farming

Successful farming businesses created for 500+ individual households- Through cooperative learning and production practices and locally focused agriculture education their lives have improved in countless ways.
Successful farmers grow enough food and variety of food that they now only go to market for tea and sugar, instead of being reliant on vendors for all their food staples - Before, they did not create surplus foods from their farms.

Today, using Sasa Harambee created farming models, surplus produce can be the norm and many area farmers are building on to their homes to store this proliferation of goods. With the revenues generated from the sale of that surplus, their children can now go to university (previously an insurmountable hurdle). And with an eye to the future, they are starting cooperative businesses that add to the community’s economic sustainability, self-sufficiency and general well-being.

Health

Now owned by the Kenyan government, the clinic Sasa Harambee helped build serves 2000 patients a month. The government has built staff quarters and have begun planning the addition of a maternity ward.
The Community Health Officer, along with Sasa Harambee and health professionals around Sigomere, provided a number of Ebola awareness campaigns at the local markets.

Ebola training.

Clinic interior

A community served by better health

Clinic well records being turned in to the Minister of Health.

Spring water protection

Filling containers with clean, spring water

Water

Since 2008, Sasa Harambee has repaired 5 wells that were drilled in the 1980s. We have sunk a large borehole at the Uluthe Health Dispensary with Engineers Without Borders, and put in 13 spring protections.

In November 2021 Carol Carper funded a borehole that shall serve the people of Mucheiya village, Bungasi Location in Kakamega County where her Residence shall be. To see hiow the well was sunk please visit the link below
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4644423268912794&id=100000355003347

Sanitation

Engineers Without Borders teamed with Sasa Harambee to build an incinerator for medical waste at Uluthe Health Dispensary in March 2016. With the recent addition of an additional updated incinerator in the county, there is now an ability to serve 40 facilities within the region. Built to WHO standards, it will reach temperatures that will melt sharps.
Over the last three years, the public health officer and her Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) worked to successfully achieve 100% coverage of latrines in every compound. In a recent cholera outbreak there were no cases in East Uholo.

Clinic waste pit before incinerator

Incinerator built by Engineers Without Borders.

Uluthe secondary school

Health clinic

Education

In partnership with the local community, other NGOs, and the Kenyan government, Sasa Harambee has focused on the development of sustainable and meaningful infrastructure: wells and protected springs, schools, health clinics, electricity, and sanitation blocks.
The development of a marketing infrastructure that includes accessible collection and storage sites for crops.
With the help of Friends of Africa Education, we built a secondary school that hosts an enrollment of 300 students.
With support from Rotary, Sasa Harambee was able to build a health clinic that serves 2,000 people per month.
Sasa Harambee renovated and put in new classrooms at three area primary schools.

People with Disabilities

A group of people living with disabilities next to their bales of hay.

Families and children living with disabilities meet as a community.

Families with disabilities' raised-bed vegetables.

Moses, with a club foot, and his brother.

Child with Downs Syndrome

Learning how to adapt and overcome.

Sasa Harambee sought out funding for a community census and is working to establishing a database of all people living with disabilities in this ward (pop. 56,000).
The Ministry of Health's Community Health officers, along with the Matibabu Rehabilitation Team, has and will continue to train workers to identify infants with disabilities, provide nutrition education, and provide household-level palliative care of individuals living with Cerebral Palsy.
Students from Conifer High School in Colorado were able to build a playground for disabled children with funds raised by another school in Colorado, Bailey Middle School.

Accomplishments