Through our comprehensive care department, the Matibabu Foundation offers several community-centred programs.

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Sick-cell Disease
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is the most widespread genetic disease in Africa, which affects haemoglobin, resulting in very painful, acute attacks and potentially fatal complications, especially in children. The condition limits the life expectancy of those living with the condition. In Africa, statistically, half of the children with the condition die before their fifth birthday.
To remedy this underdiagnosed condition, Matibabu Hospital provides subsidized medication to those living with the condition. This is thanks to a partnership with the Swiss pharmaceutical company, NOVARTIS.
We run an outpatient clinic for those living with the condition and community support groups to educate them to ensure lives are prolonged, allowing children to live a full life.
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Cervical Cancer
Matibabu Hospital is a champion of women’s reproductive health, and we believe we can live in a world free of all cancer, particularly cervical cancer.
On 17 December 2021, in collaboration with the Lake Region Economic Bloc, the Office of the First Lady of Kenya, Tiba Foundation, Matibabu Foundation, and our parent organization, distributed 25,000 scrubs donated by FIGS to healthcare workers, our ambassadors of cervical cancer prevention.
The project will conduct free cervical cancer screening, cervical cancer treatment, and HPV vaccination. In collaboration with ZanaAfrica and Kenya’s Ministry of Health, Matibabu Foundation will conduct outreach programs across the country, screening women for cervical cancer.
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Medical Camp
Access to universal healthcare in rural communities is the first step to achieving this goal. Access in rural communities means geographic access. However, due to the expanse of rural communities, physical access to health facilities is difficult and at times is an arduous and expensive journey to health facilities.
Matibabu Hospital brings healthcare to the community in annual medical camps to mitigate this. In partnership with the Tiba Foundation, Fred Ogola Foundation, and volunteer doctors from the USA rural communities across Ugunja and Ukwala sub-counties of Siaya County in Western Kenya, you get access to world-class medical assessment and surgical referrals, and surgery. More than 20,000 people have been reached in the annual camps conducted.

Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

At Matibabu Hospital, we are strong believers in community health for sustained healthcare for all. Our community-based rehabilitation program is dedicated to reaching those in the community unable to physically visit our facilities. 

​We focus our energies on supporting people with disabilities covering the Ugenga and Ugunja sub-counties in Siaya County, Western Kenya. We serve 200 members of our community living with special needs, varying from mobility, convulsive, and developmental disorders.

 Our dedicated team of specialists conducts home visits, diagnoses, prescribes medication and treatments, conducts treatments such as physiotherapy, and, where required, prescribes corrective surgery.

SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Red Pride
The Red Pride project is a Matibabu Foundation Kenya and USAID-Western Kenya Sanitation Project (USAID-WKSP) co-created project that envisions increasing access and uptake of market-based improved Menstrual Hygiene Management services and products at the Household level. The project’s primary beneficiaries are girls and women aged 10-49 years. The project is being implemented in the Gem and Rarieda sub-counties of Siaya County. The project focuses on breaking the silence on menstruation, safe and hygienic management of menstruation, and safe disposal of used menstrual products. Currently, the project has reached 8,915 (female 6548, male 2367) people with MHM information services and products.
The menstrual health challenges adolescent girls and young women face have a far-reaching impact on their health and social and economic opportunities. Menstrual hygiene management is multi-faceted and includes issues of privacy, sanitary disposal, comfort, dignity, and cleanliness.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health
In collaboration with the Days for Girls Foundation, Matibabu Foundation offers sexual and reproductive health care and information to adolescent girls in the Ugenya sub-county in Siaya County.
100 schools have received sexual and reproductive health education
450 boys received sexual and reproductive health education
1000 girls received sexual and reproductive health education
The program conducts:
Peer education which bolsters the peer educators’ program in schools to ensure sustained discussion and information sharing on reproductive health.
Distribution of sanitary pads and contraceptives; and
Sexual and reproductive health education on menstrual hygiene, contraception, and reproductive rights.

Nutricare Program

Matibabu Foundation is working towards reducing malnutrition in rural Kenya through the treatment of severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition, Health education on smart farming, preparing meal plans and diet therapy, and counseling on non-communicable diseases. We also do mass distribution of vitamin A and Albendazole for deworming, donated by our partners, Vitamin Angels. In our Nutricare program, we are also supporting cancer patients; we have donated cone gardens to them so that they can have a healthy and balanced diet of fortified food.
The program is designed to empower individuals to achieve optimal health by offering personalized consultations, meal plans and ongoing support from experienced nutritionists and health professionals.