Community-Own Resource Persons currently partnering with CHAT
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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 integrating environment concerns but may also participate in advocating and finding solutions to issues around development, livelihood projects, and many other needs of the community eg. Gender Based Violence (GBV), Disability, C-19, Mental Health. 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. Learn more about where the CORPs work by visiting our Where page. |
Many of the CORPs are successfully providing a sustainable environment for their communities to access family planning/contraception
NORTHERN KENYA RANGELANDS ECOSYSTEM (Samburu, Marsabit & parts of Laikipia & Isiolo County)
Agnes Safina is a married mother of 3 children living in Kisima area located in the Samburu Central Sub County.
She has established 2 health support groups and assists with mobilization of communities around Baawa & other communities neighbouring the west Kirisia Forest.
Agnes practices poultry keeping and likes educating people on health and environmental issues.
Victor is 57 year old, married and a father to 7 children. He trained as a HTC Counselor at Sirata Oirobi Dispensary, Samburu County. He is also a pastor. His passion is to provide spiritual counseling, and family/couple counseling. He is a keen sportsman.
Silvana Lepurdati is a married mother of a 2 based in Ndonyo Nasipa, north west on the slopes of Mathews Range (very remote). She likes to volunteer at the local health facility. She is skilled in bead work and makes beautiful artifacts which she sells in the nearby market. Her hobby is singing Samburu folk songs.
Everlyn Nakales from Pura, is mother of 1. 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Kabale Dima, a married mother of 2 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.
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Madina Dima is a married mother of 8 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.
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EWASO NYIRO ECOSYSTEM (covers parts of Laikipia, Samburu & Isiolo Counties)
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.
Susan Lenantare is married with 4 children and owns a small foodstuff and bead work business. She assists communities in Maibei and neighboring conservancies in Samburu East to access family planning. She often will provide mentorship services to other new or 'weak' CORPs. She is a friendly cheerful person and enjoys socializing and traveling.
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Jacinta Rarin is a single mother of 3. 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
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.
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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.
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.
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LAIKIPIA ECOSYSTEM (parts of Laikipia County)
Pauline Lokipi is a married mother of 5 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. She provides mentoring to new and 'weak' CORPs.
Susan Chelele is a married mother to 3 children. Susan hails from Ilpingwan in Laikipia West. She is a shopkeeper at the local center selling basic daily commodities. She likes herding livestock and ‘catching up’ with her peers .
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Mary Kadogo is a single mother of 4 children. She is originally from Baragoi (Samburu North) 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.
Esther Akeno is a single mother of 2 - 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, listen to gospel music and sing
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Loise Kimiri is a married mother of 3 from Doldol. Loise is always busy in her community helping as a health volunteer sensitizing the community members about good health practices. Loise is keen on working with her community ensuring a good water supply for their domestic and livestock use. She likes traveling and meeting new people.
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MARA ECOSYSTEM (Narok & Bomet Counties)
Florence Naeku is a married mother of 5 children from Emarti in Narok County in southern Kenya. She also reaches into neighbouring Bomet County. 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.
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Nelly Naipanoi is a married mother of 2 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.
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TANA RIVER ECOSYSTEM (Mwingi North, Kitui & Tharaka South Sub-Counties)
Susan Nzyake from Kamuongo and a mother to 3. 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.
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Lucy Mbulu is a mother of 4. 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.
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Juliet Ndung’e is a single mother of 4 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE MAU ECOSYSTEM (Nakuru County)
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LAKE VICTORIA BASIN ECOSYSTEM (Kisii and Homabay County)
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Joseph Koskei is a married father of 5 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.
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Mary Wangeci is a mother of 2 from Elburgon in Nakuru. She is a small scale farmer and sells her produce in a small kiosk in the evenings. She like supporting women in the best way she knows how, which is sharing information about FP and referring them for services.
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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.
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Emily Otieno a widow and a mother of 7 is a retired teacher who hails from Kendu-Bay in Homa-Bay County. She is passionate about reaching out to the needy and has devoted her time to ensure that they access timely family planning information and services. In her free time she likes volunteering with the youth and PLWHIV groups.
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SLUM ECOSYSTEM (Dagoreti (urban slum of Nairobi), Maralal & Nanyuki)
Lucy Ngugi, a trained CHV is based in Dagoreti and its surrounding slum in Nairobi. The married mother of 3 hawks tea leaves from door to door as she does sensitization on Family Planning and ecological awareness. Whenever free she likes socializing and attending prayer sessions.
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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 2 support groups for people living with HIV/AIDS, situated in the slum and suburban areas of Maralal. He also makes and sells soap and biofuel briquettes.
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Rose Mulonzya is a mother of 2. She lives in Nanyuki and works in the slums withing the town. She runs a small vegetable kiosk where she gets to interact with a lot of people taking this chance to share on FP. She loves singing and is a choir member at her local church.
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MT. KENYA ECOSYSTEM (Meru County)
Mercy Makena is a single mother of 1. 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.
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The ever so jolly Mercy Mwari hails from Meru. She is passionate about community work and is always counseling people especially the youth. She supports CHAT work in areas around Timau and Chumvi. Mercy loves traveling, listening to music and having fun.
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MT. KILIMANJARO (AMBOSELI) ECOSYSTEM
Nchelele Banati a second wife, is a mother of 3 from Meshinani. Having been married young she missed out on education which she values a lot that is why she is a girl child education champion. The very skilled bead accessories maker, uses bead working groups to sensitize and provide family planning services through the backpack strategy. During her free time she likes to enhance her bead-working skills.
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The respected Nyumba Kumi elder, John Supuk, from Enkong Narok, is married and a father. He is very passionate about family planning. He relentlessly works towards sharing information and supporting the community members to access family planning services. The adventurous spirit likes to discover the nearby Amboseli National Park as well as hiking during his free time.
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LAKE TURKANA ECOSYSTEM (Suguta Valley) |
MID GREAT RIFT VALLEY ECOSYSTEM (Baringo bordering Laikipia County)
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MT. ELGON ECOSYSTEM (Trans Zoia County)
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Akai Ewoi is a mother of 3 from Kamuge one of the villages in Suguta Valley. She likes supporting her community in anyway possible and thus always going door to door sensitizing them on FP as a way to change their lives. She is a very good football and handball player.
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Agnes Kangogo is from Mchongoi in Baringo County. A community perched on the eastern edge of the Great Rift Valley with spectacular views. She also reaches into Laikipia She is a single mother of 1. 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.
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Lilian Naibei is a mother of 1 from Teldet. The village is mostly dominated by squatters who were sent out of Mt. Elgon forest by the Sabaot land defence force. Lilian is passionate about community work as she identifies the suffering and lack of knowledge and information about Family planning. She is an active church member and enjoys singing with the youth group.
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