Community ActionAid Education
Empowering, inspiring and equiping the Youth with basic health services, care and education to the displaced and host community
ABOUT US
Community Vitality Solutions CBO (formerly known as Community ActionAid Education) is a registered refugee-led and Community-Based Organization (CBO) committed to empowering vulnerable and underserved communities through targeted health education, WASH, and wellness programs. Established in 2020 by refugee youth and women with a vision to foster sustainable development goals with a focus on SDG 3—Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 4—Quality Education, SDG 5—Gender Equality, and SDG 6—Clean Water and Sanitation [SDG 3, 4, 5, and 6]. CVS works at the grassroots level within refugee and forcibly displaced communities to bridge gaps in health education awareness, provide essential first aid and medical training, promote hygiene and sanitation practices, and deliver comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Education (SRHE) through workshops. We provide a higher level of care in the pursuit of health and happiness for all.
VISION & MISSION
Vision
A healthy, empowered, and resilient community where youth and women drive positive change through knowledge, quality first aid training, and comprehensive healthcare education awareness.
Mission
To educate and empower youth and women with quality first aid skills and broader healthcare knowledge, train health workers from marginalized communities, and promote sustainable health improvements through awareness, health education, and quality care.
VALUES
Hear From The Founder
I’m Dr. Hassan Mohamud Alehemir, the Executive Director. My core target, together with the core board of directors for Community Vitality Solutions CBO, is to impact our community youth, women, children, and adults with quality health education and good health services.
I firmly stand to support our community and needy people from other nationalities to have access to health education, health training, and health services.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Community Vitality Solution CBO is committed to providing excellent access to health education and advocating quality first aid and medical training, promoting hygiene and sanitation practices, and delivering comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Education (SRHE) through workshops to forcibly displaced youth, women, children, and adults in Kakuma refugee camp, as well as needy people from other nationalities. We support communities in Kakuma refugee camp between the ages of 18 and 35 to partially provide health education to the community at large regardless of age. We operate inclusive spaces in which communities have equal access to health care and education.
The primary goal of Community Vitality Solutions CBO is to adequately equip, empower, and inspire positive health education to the community’s youth, women, adults, and needy people of other nationalities. The organization was initiated by Dr. Hassan Mohamud Alehemir, who’s primary goal, in collaboration with his board of directors, is to provide quality health education and WASH training to our community’s youth, women, children, and adults, as well as needy people from other nationalities.
The organization’s goal is to adequately empower and equip the youth with good health education for a better future and to improve health status in our community and areas of operation. In each Medical and First aid training Cohort class, our goal is to adequately equip, empower, and train 45 Medical students/learners from various communities and 20 Medical students/learners from other Nationalities or Communities in Kakuma refugee camp. This is to prepare at least 150 medical students/learners from various communities for our current and future generations, as well as to contribute globally to reducing health education poverty and improving health status in our communities, and to prepare 80 medical students/learners from other nationalities in Kakuma refugee camp.
Besides that, medical personnel are insufficient to cater to the entire area, particularly in the locality of Kakuma refugee camp at large. Furthermore, we have fewer Medical Training Centers. The aforementioned challenges motivated me to come to Kakuma refugee camp and open a health training center in order to train at least two to three people from different communities who are in Kakuma refugee camp, in order to help our community improve its health status in the future. And in each medical training cohort, I accept a maximum of 40 students from various communities, as well as some students from hosts. I could have had more students per cohort.
In 2021, the organization was able to graduate 36 medical students from Cohort I, 47 in Cohort II 2022, 65 in Cohort III 2023, 69 in Cohort IV 2024, and 105 successfully graduated from Cohort V. Out of 322 students who graduated in all the cohorts, 27 are currently working with IRC in Kakuma refugee camp, 13 are working with the Red Cross in Kalobeyei, 32 are working in private health facilities/pharmacies, and 23 are working in South Sudan refugee camps, and some are working in Nuba Mountain in Sudan, and they are really doing well in helping the community in health care services, all because of the knowledge and skills they acquired from this medical and first aid health training or course offered at Community ActionAid Education.
CHALLENGES
Operation space is one of the main problems. We need to construct a larger classroom to accommodate more students because I’m training them in own small room, were there isn’t enough seating for the students. Another challenge is inadequate medical and First Aid training aid, as I conduct trainings at my small pharmacy’s facilities. Never to mention the insufficiency of stationery for students, facilitators, and amongst others.
Due to the aforementioned, I humbly request the interested individuals who have a passion for and are willing to support the Initiative for the Organization’s effective implementation. As of now, there are over 200+ students from various nationalities and backgrounds on the waiting list, with only 75 enrolled in the Medical class due to the reasons I mentioned above. Any kind of support from you will be greatly appreciated. Your partnership with us and other organizations, donators, well-wishers, and self-donations who are willing to support medical and First Aid health training and healthcare services and education will make all the difference!
Let's Partner
Our mission thrives through collaboration. We welcome partners, collaborators, and support of any kind. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or to explore ways to contribute.
ABOUT US:
We are behind a mission to empower, inspire and equip the Youth and provide basic health services, care and education to the displaced and host community to enhance positive and sustainable health transformations in the society.
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CONTACT US
Address: Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, Kakuma 3, Zone 1, Block 12. Kakuma, Kenya.
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +254723160487