A Community Health Worker for Kisui Beach!

Community Health workers are vital to the success of MED25. As our eyes and ears in the community, community health workers serve as the first encounter a patient has when seeking medical treatment.

Mary, one of our community health workers, was born and raised in a small village in Mbita, Kenya, and currently lives just 2 kilometers away from the MED25 Clinic. Growing up in Kisui Beach Village, Mary watched members of her community unable to make ends meet with their subsistence farming.

After graduating high school and starting her own family, a cholera outbreak in her community made her realize she wanted more for herself and her loved ones. In 1998, Mary completed her official training to become a Community Health Worker for her village. In 2010, Mary joined the MED25 team and for the first time was able to refer community members to a facility where she knew patients would get the treatment they needed.

Mary’s primary goal as a community health worker is to educate members of her community on ways to prevent diseases that plague her community: malaria and water-borne illnesses. By sponsoring Mary, you have provided 422 households, more than 2,500 individuals, with a community health worker. Thank you all for your support!