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FIOH Education and Development Fund
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FUTURE
IN OUR HANDS KENYA
FIOH Kenya
was established in Kisumu in 1985 and has since engaged in a wide range
of social and environmental programmes and projects with financial help
from several volunteers from the UK and the USA and from the FIOH Fund.
Womens Co-operative Business Training Seminar
This seminar on basic entrepeneurship and book keeping was held between
14th and 18th Aug 2002 at the NCCK Nyanza regional headquarters. Participants
were women from the FIOH groups in Kisumu, Kimilili in Bungoma, Muhoroni
in Nyando and from Busia near the border with Uganda. The leactures
were given by qualified business training tutors. Rom Wandera and Ernest
Ouma gave lectures on the impoirtance of trees and the uses of various
species and how to raise seedlings in nurseries.
Representatives of the 21st Century Kisumu Forum provided information
on the impact of HIV/AIDS and other STIs, relating this to how it affected
patients and their families and the local economy.
Lectures were interspersed with songs and dancing and each day started
with both Christian and Muslim prayers.
The importance of keeping records was stressed and marketing techniques
were explained.
Information
on STIs was amplified using appropriate video tapes and the proper use
of condoms was explained. Nevaprin, a drug used to prevent the transmission
of the HIV virus from mother to child was discussed at length as mothers
wanted to know how effective it was and its availability.
The second day ended with the testimony of an AIDS victim. He explained
that he contracted the infection as a result of traditional practice
which required him to have sexual intercourse with a former wife of
his fathjer when the father had died four years ago. This was named
the 'dispersing ceremony' and was required of him because he was the
eldest son.
