What has been done

Nutrition centres

There are currently 43 up and running and providing children and their mothers with the following services:

  • Identifying undernourished children and monitoring their weight
  • Vaccination campaigns, mobile health facilities…
  • Provision of 2 daily meals (beans, maize, sugar, oil, salt, milk and fish from Lake Turkana) with vitamin supplements, fruit, vegetables and eggs, which they have not eaten up until now (small allotments are being introduced for them to grow their own food)
Nutrition centre
  • Hygiene for children
  • Primary education
  • Healthcare
Health clinic

Eyesight Project

An eye unit was set up in 2007 within the Lodwar Hospital for operations and treatment, with campaigns for preventing blindness amongst children aged between 1 and 10 by giving them vitamin A. A team of ophthalmologists from Madrid has been working in Turkana for 8 years.