Nyandarua Community Health Promoters (CHPs) have joined hands together and launched a Community Based Organization with an aim to promote their welfare.
The CBO that brings together over 1,500 CHPs from across the country intends to use the CBO to invest and promote their welfare among other activities meant to explore investment opportunities and combat effects of climate change through appropriate mitigating practices.
According to Governor Kiarie Badilisha, the County Administration has also injected Kshs 3 million seed capital to support the CHP and underscored the important role they were playing in the community.
Speaking at Ol-Kalou town during the launch of the CBO franked by County CEC for Health Juliana Sinanga and other county officials, the governor noted that the CHPs are better placed to promote preventing primary health care services.
The governor termed the initiative – that’s aimed at economically empowering the grassroots health actors, as a “turning point in how “we create communally-beneficial and sustainable programmes that avail opportunities to our people. This CBO is a vehicle for targeted development and interventions tailor-made to address specific needs of our CHPs.” He said
The county government is also set to establish a working framework with the CHPs beyond healthcare management
