14/06/2010 - Hygiene and sanitation programme.

At the centre of ICROSS community health education is prevention. Over 27 years ICROSS has demonstrated great success through community-owned sanitation projects.
Over the next three years we are extending our sanitation and community health promotion work. Together with our network of community health workers and community leaders we are launching home based health promotion through Child to child education and mothers workshops. With over 300 health workers we will work in homesteads and villages to improve basic hygiene and sanitation.

Together with the Ministry of health we are implementing long term strategies to reduce infectious disease, 80% of which are preventable through effective health education. Starting in July community workshops in all our programmes will launch the sanitation and hygiene activities throughout Maasai land. The District commissioner has been visiting ICROSS programmes over the past month and assured ICROSS teams of the Government's support.

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ICROSS began its activities in 1978. We aim at providing long-term assistance to the nomadic communities of the sub-Saharan region. We act as a catalyst and all our projects are run and owned by the communities we serve. We work to improve health and living standards using their own culture. We work within a five-year strategic plan. This was developed with the Ministry of Health in Kenya and sets out long term goals.

Remember, you have the power to change tomorrow.

Dr. Michael Elmore Meegan - Founder and International Director ICROSS.