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 The social intevention to answer the emergency

 
After the political elections in December 2007, slums areas have been deeply touched by violence. Adults, children, teachers and students had to face this situation without having the adequate tools or skills. The team of the health education programme understood the need to do something to help the direct and indirect victims of violence. We decided indeed to dedicate human and material resources to manage the emergency. The team worked with the youth, creating a new curriculum in the schools on peace, human rights, tolerance and living together. Our social workers organized a post-trauma counseling service in the schools of the slums.
Teachers and headmasters have also been involved in this initiative. We organised a workshop for 34 headmasters on February 2008 to give the participants the chance to share their experiences linked to the country political situation, to find practical solutions to the problems, to face students psychological needs. Then, we organised another workshop for 90 teachers on April 2008, on gender-based violence and sexual abuse victims. 
In Huruma Primary School where we have been working since years we covered food expenses for three months to 70 orphans whose families could not afford the school canteen. 
50 families with disabled children received food and a financial support to pay the rent. 
The AFEMA group of women has been involved in some meetings with a social worker to discuss on violence and try to handle the trauma.
20 women with disabled children received micro-grants to restart their business activity. 
Emergency health intervention
 
During the days of violence, the number of patients with fractures, wounds of a weapon by cutting and fire and the victims
of rapes has increased a lot.
WF has been enhanced support to the Mbagathi hospital and peripheral centers,ordered a large quantity of medicines
and consumption material.
At Mbagathi Hospital were treated on average 30 of patients a week. 30 patients and their relatives were housed in hospital,
having been burned their homes and are at high risk their return in slums like Kibera.
 
 
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