Who are we?

KIMA ICIP started as a primary health care programme under the Church of God, Kima Mission Hospital in 1987.

In 2001, Kima CBHC was registered under the ministry of  culture and social services as a community based organization (CBO).

In 2005, the organization was registered under the NGO board as a non-governmental organization and is situated at Church of God Kima Mission station, Luanda-Majengo road, on Kakamega-Emusutswi road.

Currently, Kicip operates in five locations within Emuhaya district:

South location

Southwest location

Central location

West location

Wekhomo location

KICIP offices

VISION:

Productive, cohesive, and sustainable community.

MISSION:

To strengthen individuals, groups and communities in Emuhaya and neighboring districts, to take responsibility for their own health in an integrated way and create partnerships across Western Kenya and further.

KICIP OBJECTIVES:

1. To strengthen the ability of communities to provide care and support to orphans/vulnerable children (OVC) and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)

2. To enable farmers to produce healthy food for home consumption, market excess and conserve their environment  by strengthening their organizational capacity.

3. To develop a community resource center for integrated health activities.

4. To keep learning from experiences elsewhere, to be able to provide community

groups with a wide range of appropriate links and to have impact through collaboration.

5. To strengthen governance and management systems in the organization

6. To raise funds to carry out activities in the strategic plan.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Kicip was registered as a community based organization in 2001.Since then it has been known for sustainable agriculture  work among farmers and people living with HIV/AIDS in Emuhaya District. In 1990, a survey was carried out in Iboona and Ebutanyi sub-locations that revealed 3 main health related issues.

Contaminated water was causing recurrent diarrhea especially among children.

Food insecurity and low incomes was leading to malnutrition especially in children under five years.

The first indications of HIV in the District.

Therefore the then Kima community based health care established projects in water and sanitation, organic agriculture, and  HIV/AIDS awareness.

Currently Kicip has a demonstration land within its premises. It has maintained its focus on building the capacity of communities to manage their own health issues in integrated way thro sustainable agriculture, HIV/AIDS, and water and sanitation programmes. Kicip now operates in both Emuhaya and Butere districts.

One of the goats kept at Kicip, bee keeping for honey practiced by one of the farmers and Kicip staffs and missionaries from Kist being taken around one of the farms:

Farmers Educative Tour at Millenium villages in Siaya:

Indigenous vegetables grown at Kicip

THE OVC DEPARTMENT

In 2007,APHIA signed an agreement with Kicip to carry out an orphans vulnerable children/Home and community based care (OVC/HCBC) care and support projects. Kicip trained 200 CHWs and serves 3000 OVCs and 738 PLWHAs in both Luanda division and Wekhomo location of Emuhaya district. Each chw takes care of 15 ovcs and at least 10 plwhas. The project takes care of ovcs in the following core areas; health, education, nutrition, shelter and care, protection, and psycho-social support.

Distribution of mattresses to ovcs

                                  

Distribution of blankets, homeclothing, school uniforms and utensils

Shelters were also renovated:

before

after

THE HCBC DEPARTMENT

Over the years Kicip has transformed itself from a training organization into an organization that stimulates and strengthens the development of community based health services. Much of Kicips health care work is centered on HIV and AIDS which remains a critical area.

Kicip facilitated formation of 10 support groups in 5 out of 8 locations in the district. Currently there are 6 active support groups .The groups are founded and run on voluntary basis with a capacity of about 30 to 40 members. They meet and share experiences on dealing with HIV/AIDS. They also discuss and support one another through merry go rounds and other income generating activities. These activities have given the groups varying degrees of success

Dr. Shirley, a missionary at Kima Mission Hospital shares a moment with Isaac Ochami, a member of Tumaini web support group living positively:

Members of Jipe Moyo support group have engaged in various income generating activities i.e.;

Horticulture farming, poultry keeping and merry go rounds. This is done to uplift the living standards of the members who are living positively.

Aphia ii through Kicip donated a money maker  irrigation pump to the group to assist them in their agricultural activities.

CHALLENGE

Mobilization of adequate resources to complete organizational projects

LESSONS LEARNT

It is important to keep to the technology like internet and online social networks (facebook, twitter, .etc.) to let the world know of your

existence and what is generally happening globally.

For any project to succeed, there has to be active involvement and participation for the target community groups right from the beginning of the project, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.