EDUCATION AND HIV/AIDs
OKOA aims to address these two targets through Civil Education and encouraging communities to be active in the fight against HIV/AIDs.
CIVIL EDUCATION
OKOA aims to promote civil education in the community in giving knowledge and skills especially to widows and complete orphans.
When husbands and parents died they may have left behind wealth for their families. However, due to a lack of advocacy and empowerment, neighbors and distant relatives often end up taking land and money and other properties. This leaves a stigma of poverty to the affected families. OKOA advocate for the affected families by training them how to defend themselves and assert their legal rights. Also they receive training on how to tackle traditional beliefs such that after their husbands and death the house owned by a widow should be demolished because they believe that the ghost stays in that house causing more deaths to the rest left behind. OKOA offer training and advice on workable solutions such as using the same house for animal keeping that can make them earn living. OKOA is targeting to train more than 700 widows families and 500 orphaned families in four project centers.
HIV/ AIDs
In Kenyan communities most death is caused by HIV/AIDS which contributes to 80% of poverty. The affected people often find themselves in financial difficulty therefore OKOA reaches all suspected to be affected through the PICC by guiding and counseling ministry. We guide them and counsel them properly before they are taken to (VCT) voluntary counseling and testing whereby after being identified we form home based care for those who are positive living. Through home based care we encourage them to become empowered by addressing congregations, meeting in public rallies, primary schools, secondary schools, churches and in targets groups. This aspect helps those who are not tested to get tested so that they can know their status. For those who are found positive are encouraged to go for treatment and improve their quality of life. Through this they will know how to plan for their families after their death. All targeted families in all four projects centers are entitled to be reached with training and education. We are targeting above 200 people in the whole project centre.
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