The Enduring Voices Foundation: Follow-On-Funding-Application - ‘Talking-Trees-Project’ - Phase-II with Somali Pastoralists Communities-Garissa/Wajir-Counties
The Wellcome Trust awarded a grant of GBP 20,000 to The Enduring Voices Foundation for work in Kenya, dated 30 April 2018.
Overview
In 2016-2017, the “Talking Trees Project” - 'A public health/forum research addressing maternal deaths prevalent among pastoralists’ communities of Kenya’ was launched and implemented in Narok, and Kajiado Counties by the Enduring Voices Foundation (EVF). The EVF through its Wellcome Trust’s - International Public Engagement Award, organized the ‘Talking Trees Project” around the following modules: Maternal healthcare, FGM/C, alternative rites of passage, women’s health (sexuality, pregnancy management, HIV/Aids and mortality), human rights, child development and early child-marriage. This second-project- phase will mobilize the Somali communities in Garissa and Wajir Counties, to participate in open-public-health-engagement and research forums, which will lead to voluntary public declarations on the abandonment of FGM/C. This project will bring together researchers, health experts and the Somali communities to discuss and develop an understanding of the discrepancies between modern science and traditional practices, and to share best practices culminating from the phase-one of the ‘Talking Trees Project’ that would help minimize maternal deaths resulting from FGM/C complications. It will also help the research team in identify challenges and support gaps in research dissemination to the general public, so as to develop appropriate information materials in Somali language that actively contributes to Somali community outreach and FGM/C awareness.
Programme: Public Engagement Fund Small
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