In these series of photos, the community health workers – Jane Gathigia and Irene Kerubo – are doing home-based care to a bedridden client (Loise Nyandika, 34 years old, widowed with 3 children). KENWA’s community health workers are trained in the COPHIA project organized by Pathfinder International.

At the time the pictures were taken, Loise was bedridden and was being looked after by her community health worker who made sure that she had access to, inter alia, food and the necessary medication.

She was on TB therapy and was also complaining of problems with her limbs, blocked chest, loss of both appetite and weight, constant headaches and memory lapses. She was also undergoing great mental anguish because her daughter was hospitalised and her in-laws had rejected them because her husband was a foreigner (Tanzanian). Loise has recovered and is doing some work (knitting) to provide for her three children. Gainsaid, she is still financially unstable because her line of work is irregular.