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We've been completely overwhelmed by the amazing results of our sanitary pad project. Here's what a Headteacher told us: Absenteeism is down by 40% across the school. It’s a co-ed school, and this figure is due to girls not missing school when they have a period. ...

The International Day of Charity was established with the aim of encouraging and inspiring people all around the world to help others through humanitarian and volunteering activities. The 5th of September was chosen by the UN as the International Day of the Charity to...

Photo is of Edward, our senior nurse/midwife on the porch of Buburi Community Clinic When we usually think of the word humanitarian it's often in relation to humanitarian aid that's given in response to some disaster, either natural or man-made. In fact a humanitarian...

Today is International day of the Midwife. We celebrate by honouring those midwives at Buburi Health Centre who are supporting women and enabling healthy births every day. Together they educate and inform mothers and communities that to ensure a safe birth and a...

World Immunisation Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease and to demonstrate how immunisation saves millions of lives. It is also a chance to remind us all how much progress has been made around the world in distributing...

Friends of Buburi believe that health is a Human Right not a luxury.  We feel strongly that “No one should get sick and die just because they are poor or because they cannot access the health services they need. No one should have to choose between death and financial...

Kenya has its own inspirational women including judges, politicians, scientists and many entrepreneurs and it's great to see that some women are successfully challenging the glass ceiling. Women are being educated to the highest levels however there isn’t a level...

Many schoolgirls in Buburi will miss school when they have their period because they don’t have access to sanitary products. This is why Friends of Buburi has started a project to provide washable pads to girls in the local community. We already have dozens of women...

With the increased availability of anti retro viral treatment (ART) HIV AIDS is not the death sentence that it once was in sub-Saharan Africa. However there was a whole generation that was decimated by this unrelenting disease. This lost generation are the ones who...