Grassroots Partners

Community-Own Resource Persons currently partnering with CHAT

CHAT works with communities through a partnership approach. The partnership with the community is formalized by working with local elders and leaders to identify a “community-own resource person” (CORPs). CORPs must be good mobilisers, trusted by community, and able to respect individual’s confidentiality.
CORPs work in their home communities to mobilise the services and support the community needs. CORPs focus on health, family planning & environment but may also participate in finding solutions to issues around development, livelihood projects, and many other needs of the community. CORPs are supported by CHAT through a MOU as well as on going mentoring, training (facilitated with the Government of Kenya), support and oversight. Each CORPs supports their community in a customized way to the needs and challenges of that region.

NORTHERN KENYA RANGELANDS ECOSYSTEM (SAMBURU COUNTY)

Victor is 57 year old, married and a father to seven children. He trained as a HTC Counselor at Sirata Oirobi Dispensary, Samburu County. He is also a pastor and his passion is not only to provide spiritual counseling, but also provide family/couple counseling. He is a keen sportsman.

Susan Lenantare is married with four children and owns a small foodstuff and bead work business. She assists communities in Lodonokwe and neighboring conservancies in Samburu East to access family planning. She also assists CHAT with providing FP sensitization in other counties. She is a friendly cheerful person who interacts well with the communities. In her free time, she enjoys socializing and traveling.

Jane Nteiyan is a married mother of 4 children. She lives in Wamba in Samburu East and has a small business selling food stuffs and beautiful bead-work. She enjoys cooking.

Silvana Lepurdati is a married mother of a two. She likes to volunteer at the local health facility. She is skilled in bead work and makes beautiful artifacts out of her unique skills which she sells in the nearby market. Her hobby is singing Samburu folk songs.

Everlyn Nakales from Pura, is mother of one. She is single and being so young she is the most educated in her village, whereby she helps in keeping records for the Village Development Committee that was formed in Pura recently. She is a farmer and a livestock keeper. She is a very good traditional Pokot dancer.

Chondo Akuagoro is a single father of 2 children. He helps people living with HIV/AIDS and also provides door to door family planning. He has formed two support groups for people living with HIV/AIDS, situated in the slums and suburban areas of Maralal. He also makes and sells soap and biofuel briquettes.

Agnes Safina is a married mother of 3 children living in Kisima area located in Samburu Central Sub County. She has established two health support groups and assists with mobilization of communities around Baawa & Suguta Marmar both of which are also in Samburu Central. Agnes practices poultry keeping and likes educating people on health and environmental issues.

Nawasa Erupe is a married mother of 7 from South Horr in Samburu County. She works hard to ensure that her children will get an education. When she has time, Nawasa likes to do voluntary health work.

Rose Lenemiria is married mother of 7 children from Sirata Oirobi in Samburu County. She runs a salon where ladies come to get their hair done. Whilst at the salon, they interact and discuss topics that empower them, helping them to better understand their roles as women. Rose is also a pastor and enjoys watching gospel music and sports

Stella Akai is a divorced mother of 4 from Suguta Marmar in Samburu Central. She is passionate about community health thus you will often find her volunteering at the health facility, and also is often going door to door sensitizing community members. She loves singing during her free time.

Michael Lolgonjine is a married father of 7. He works as both an HCTCORP and FPCORP. He farms in Samburu Central, producing bee products, ethnobotanical pyrethrum, wheat, vegetables, milk and aloes. He also initiated an HIV/AIDS support group and likes socializing with people of all personalities

Zipporah Leleruk is a single mother of 2 children living in Lerata area, Samburu East Sub County. She runs a small vegetable stand and is very engaged with her community members of Kirish. Often, a small group of women will gather to chat and learn from each other at her market stand.

Jane Lealmusia is a married mother of 3 from Lukumkum, a small village at the foot of the west Ndoto Mountains in Samburu North; it is a tough and remote environment. Jane has a small local kiosk where she sells local commodities. She is very adventurous and likes to discover new things and places. Jane often volunteers with the local dispensary.

Andrew Eturen is a farther of six from Marti in Samburu North. Being the sole bread winner of his family, he is a construction worker building some upcoming houses in Marti. He likes herding livestock.

Elizabeth Ngeiwa is a married mother of Seven from Amaiya. – this is on the border of Smaburu with East Pokot. The ever-happy lady is a farmer and a keen sports woman. During her spare time she can be seen playing different sports like football, netball and javelin.

NORTHERN KENYA RANGELANDS ECOSYSTEM (LAIKIPIA COUNTY)

Samuel Parare is a married father of four. He lives in Tutu, about 15 kms out of Nanyuki town – neighboring Endana & Ol Pejeta. He has a boda boda motor bike which he uses as a taxi service. He also uses his boda boda to mobilize communities about family planning in the larger Laikipia North. Samuel is a pastor and loves to preach and talk to the community members. He also likes watching football.

Florence Siamanta from Il Motiok village in Laikipia North is married with 2 sons. She is a business woman and you will always find her in markets selling her wares. She likes travelling and singing traditional songs when free.

Jacinta Rarin is a single mother of three. She is based at Endana village in Laikipia Central, and started working with CHAT in the year 2009. Rarin also runs a small business selling clothes. She likes to listen to music and travel to new places

Charles Ndegwa is a married father of four. Apart from working with CHAT assisting with family planning mobilization, he does tracing of TB defaulters in communities around the Mt. Kenya region, including the Internal Displaced Persons camps in Laikipia Central. He is a small scale farmer who likes listening to music, playing darts and traveling to new places when he is free. He is passionate about helping the needy in the community.

Roselyn Mulonzya is a single mother of two children. She lives and works in the Nanyuki slums in Laikipia County, where she runs a small business selling vegetables. She also often assists CHAT with FP sensitization in Nanyuki town, Nyandarua, Tharaka and Mwingi North Counties. Roselyn likes to volunteer and is a very active social worker. When she has time to spare, she likes to practice dress making.

Esther Akeno is a single mother of two - a boy and a girl, both attending the nearby primary. She is from Rumuruti town in Laikipia West and likes to farm. When Esther is free, she likes to travel and listen to gospel music – which you will often hear her singing.

Pauline Lokipi is a married mother of five children. She likes to promote education in her local community in Laikipia West Sub County. She does bead and leather work, and makes reusable sanitary towels. Pauline also, oversees two health support groups. She likes singing and enjoys farming on her small homestead.

Susan Chelele is a married mother to 3 children. Susan hails from Ilpingwan. She is a shopkeeper at the local center selling basic daily commodities. She likes herding livestock and ‘catching up’ with her peers .

Mary Kadogo is a single mother of four children. She is originally from Baragoi but has been living in Juakali Laikipia for as long as she can remember. In Juakali Village, Kadogo works in farms where she is able to interact with more of her community members who live in her area and work with her. She likes sports and is always eager to play any game.

Fensia Masiyo from Ewaso village in the north of Laikipia is a married mother of 3. She is skilled in making beautiful bead accessories. Fencia likes cooking for her family and spending time with them.

Loise Kimiri is a married mother of 3 from Doldol. Loise is ever busy in her community helping as a health volunteer and mostly she is sensitizing the community members about good health practices. Loise is keen on working together with her community in ensuring a good water supply for their domestic uses, and for their livestock. She likes traveling and meeting new people whenever free.

- NORTHERN KENYA RANGELANDS ECOSYSTEM (MARSABIT COUNTY)

Stephen Turuga is a married father of 4 children. He is a HTC Counselor by profession and supports this with FP mobilization in Namarei Laisamis sub County of Marsabit County. He also supports Namarei health facility as a volunteer especially during MCH clinics. He keeps livestock and sells them to sustain his family.

Kabale Dima, a married mother of two from Marsabit. She is a chicken farmer. Being an unpopular business in her area she gets a lot of visitors who would like to learn from her. From this she is able to sensitize on FP. Kabale likes swimming and praying during her free time at home.

Vivian Machan is a married mother of one. The excellent chapati cook is always highly sort out for her services in her village of Ngurunit. Vivian likes travelling and watching movies.

Samuel Lekenit is a married father to one. He comes from Illaut in remote Marsabit County. He is a business man trading in livestock. He likes reading, listening to music and playing basketball with his mates

Celina Bulo is married mother of 4 from the northern town of Laisamis in Marsabit County. She runs a small local shop in Laisamis town where she stocks basic commodities for daily use. She likes singing in the choir, discovering new places and travelling.

NORTHERN KENYA RANGELANDS ECOSYSTEM (ISIOLO COUNTY)

Madina Dima is a married mother of eight who lives in Isiolo town where she runs her own small business selling food stuffs and keeping poultry. She works alongside CHAT helping and empowering both her local community within the town of Isiolo, and the neighboring rural communities in Eastern Isiolo. Her work helps to ensure that young girls and women within the larger Isiolo County are able to access family planning and TB treatment and support. Madinah enjoys cooking.

Julius Emuria married father of 3 from Ol Donyo Nyiro, situated in the west of Isiolo County. He likes to volunteer his skills and you will frequently find him helping out in neighboring health facilities. Whenever free, he likes to socialize with friends and the community at large. He is very passionate about livestock keeping and is always out to learn something new about the animals.

MARA ECOSYSTEM (NAROK COUNTY)

Florence Naeku is a married mother of 5 children from Emarti in Narok County in southern Kenya, Naeku is a small-scale farmer and keeps poultry. She is an assistant preacher at their local church, The Local World-Wide Ministries and likes to preach the gospel to her community members whenever free.

Nelly Naipanoi is a married mother of two from Ololunga in Narok County . She is a hair dresser and likes to interact with her clients as she beautifies them. Nelly is a very sociable individual and whenever free, she likes to swim and travel to interesting new places.

TANA RIVER ECOSYSTEM (KITUI COUNTY)

Susan Nzyake from Kamuongo and a mother to three. She is very enthusiastic about livestock keeping and is teaching community members on how to maximize on their few resources so as to take care of their animals, as well getting to learn from them what has worked for them – and possibly practice it herself.

Lucy Mbulu is a mother of four. She partakes in many roles in her community of Kyuso. She is the leader of a group of 80 Community Health Volunteers, a village elder and the church chair lady. She runs a small tea kiosk where she shares information about family planning. She loves to read and learn new things when she ever has free time.

Juliet Ndung’e is a single mother of four from Waita. She is highly skilled when it comes to making of sisal ropes and sells vegetables in her small vegetable stand at their community centre. Whenever Juliet is free you will find her attending to domestic animals as she loves taking care of them and learning new things about animals to enhance her knowledge on them.

TANA RIVER ECOSYSTEM (THARAKA NITHI COUNTY)

Through his prowess in football Jonathan Kinyua gained popularity in his local community and those surrounding. He now uses these interactions with the community to talk and educate them on family planning and its relationship to the environment as well as debunking all the myths and misconceptions that might be in existence.

Mercy Kiura is a married mother of 4 from Ciakariga in Tharaka Nithi County. She is jovial by nature and likes to cheer people up despite their challenges. Aside from being a very engaging FPCORP she is a small-scale farmer, with a small piece of land in Ciakariga where she grows green grams and has a few mango trees. She also volunteers at her local health center.

Eunice Karimi is a married mother of 4 children from Nkondi in Tharaka Nithi County. She is a well known Community Health Worker (CHW) and is popular with the communities and is a good at networking. Through her active involvement in women groups, which were formed to empower residents, she uses them as a platform for her sensitization. She is also a small scale sorghum, millet and green grams farmer.

NORTH RIFT ECOSYSTEM (BARINGO AND NAKURU COUNTIES)

LAKE BASIN ECOSYSTEM (KISII COUNTY)

Joseph Koskei is a married father of five children. He is a small-scale farmer from Tinderet, a village in the highlands of Nakuru County. In his areas of work he provides door to door family planning, this includes communities in the Internally Displaced Persons camps which have a large needy population. He likes to read the bible in his free time.

Agnes Kangogo is from Mchongoi in Baringo County. A community perched on the eastern edge of the Great Rift Valley with spectacular views. She is a single mother of one. Agnes volunteers at the local Health Facility and works as a casual worker. She mobilizes locally and also in neighboring communities. When she has spare time, Agnes likes to play football.

Jacqueline Gichana is a single mother of 3 from Nyamira in Kisii County. She is a small-scale farmer and likes to travel, read, listen to music as well as cook delicious meals. She is very passionate about empowering women and she strongly believes that with the knowledge and services she shares about family planning, a lot of women will benefit and there is going to be a notable change in their lives.

MT. KENYA ECOSYSTEM (MERU COUNTY)

DAGORETI SLUMS (NAIROBI COUNTY)

Mercy Makena is a single mother of one. She loves reading and traveling to new places. She is a fresh produce vendor. She loves her small business as she is able to interact with different people from her area and with that she shares family planning information within Nkubu and Meru.

Lucy Ngugi from Nairobi supports CHAT. She is based in Dagoreti and its surrounding slums. She is a married mother of 3 and ‘hawks’ tea leaves from door to door. Whenever free she likes socializing and attending prayer sessions.