LATEST NEWS ON ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT & AGRICULTURE
Last month AMPATH took a big step toward a vision of making access to quality health care available for all. AMPATH teams started a pilot project going door-to-door in Turbo Sub-County, immediately northwest of Eldoret, to facilitate enrollment in an affordable national health insurance product to families, especially those with informal or no employment.
In 2013, a partnership began between Dow Agrosciences/Corteva and AMPATH. Since then, employees have been passionately engaged in providing aid in the area of food insecurity in Kenya. Erica Duffy from Corteva Agriscience is blogging from Eldoret for 6 months
The group started in late 2014 and aimed to improve the living standards of farmers in the community and eradicate illiteracy though empowerment.
Pretonila visited Busia County Referral Hospital in a border town in western Kenya to be treated for a minor ailment. On this particular day, she would not be paying for any health services at the hospital.
Martha coughs as she kneels on the dirt floor to stoke the wood in the open fire pit of her inadequately ventilated one-room cooking hut.