Community Wellness Africa is a registered National Non-governmental Organization founded in Feb 2014. In late 2019, we did a comprehensive reorganization of the NGO to expand our scope. We relocated our head office from Embakasi to Ngong town, Kajiado Count, and extended our operations to four more counties within Kenya. Our current board of directors and top management constitute personnel from different fields, including Medical doctors, Nurses, Community Health and Development Specialists, Public Health Officers, and Accountants who all share one vision of a healthier and more prosperous African community.
“I founded the Community Wellness Africa Organization in 2014 while still on campus doing my bachelor's degree in Community Health and development. Back then, I ran the organization with help from a team of volunteers, who were mainly university students. After we graduated, a few of us moved to the Embakasi area in Nairobi to continue serving the community under the organization. In mid-2019, I got selected to be one of Kenya's delegates to the African youth connect summit held in Kigali Rwanda and also Kenya's representative to the Lead+ Magis summit that was organized and led by the Jesuits Justice and Ecology Network Africa. The mentorship and training that I received during these two conferences made me realize that this organization that I had created was so essential and had a vast potential to impact the lives of thousands of people across Africa positively. That’s when I started the process of restructuring our NGO to expand its operations to other counties in Kenya and soon to other countries within the continent”. Robert Ogugu
We envision being a key partner in improving the health and quality of life for people living in Africa.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to promote quality healthcare for all and prevent misery and diseases through science-based initiatives and social action activities such as community outreach programs, research, and training.
OUR CORE VALUES
1. Start with ‘why?’
2. Creativity and Innovation
3. Teamwork and Partnerships
4. Sustainability
5. Exceed expectations
Community wellbeing is the combination of social, economic, environmental, cultural, and political conditions identified by individuals and their communities as essential for them to flourish and fulfill their potential.- University of Minnesota
OR
Community Wellness is a process-oriented feel of fulfillment realized by individuals engaging in a health-related social action encompassing community-based situation analysis, planning, and interventions that lead to one living healthy.- CWA
ALSO
A community is a social unit with commonality in beliefs, customs, or values which give its members an identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area or virtual space through communication platforms. Either way, community members have shared opportunities and challenges.
Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices towards a healthy and fulfilling life in areas including Physical Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Social Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Environmental Wellness, and Occupational Wellness.
SOME OF THE CELEBRATIONS IN OUR CALENDAR INCLUDE
Community Wellness Day - 26th February Every Year (Institutional)
World NGO Day - 27th February Every Year
Global Wellness Day - 2nd Saturday of June every Year
OUR TEAM
ROBERT OGUGU- Project Director
BSc Degree Community Health and Development (BCHD) - GLUK, BLS/ACLS Certified by Red-Cross Society of Kenya. Founder of Community Wellness Africa Organization NGO. Previously worked as the Head of Department, CCU- Meridian Equator Hospital, Nairobi - KENYA.
DR. DAVID NDONYE- Board Member
Physician/Nephrologist. Founder/Owner of King David Hospital-Ngong
LOISE NGOIRI KIHU- Project Manager
Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KRCHN). Hospital Manager- King David hospital- Ngong
OUR SERVICES
BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS) TRAINING
Basic life support (BLS) is a level of essential care used on victims of life-threatening illnesses or injuries until they can be given full medical care in a hospital. It is a short training course required of most clinical health professionals and public safety personnel. BLS is also a requirement for several jobs and volunteer work. It can be performed on a victim by trained medical staff, including emergency medical technicians, certified first responder, and qualified bystanders.
Community Wellness Africa Organization is a member of the Cardiac Society of Kenya. We offer this emergency program as a refresher course following the American Heart Association guidelines.
With the BLS training, you will learn essential life-saving skills to help revive, resuscitate, or sustain a person who is experiencing cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. Some of the topics covered include; C.P.R. for Adult, Child and Infant, Foreign Body Airway Obstruction, Automated External Defibrillator (AED.) and Medical Legal and Ethical Considerations. Note that our partners sponsor some of our programs.
We also provide Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) program in partnership with King David Hospital, Ngong.
Mannequin torso used for BLS training
An AED machine used for BLS training
Robert Ogugu working in HDU (2015 picture)
WELLNESS TOURISM PROGRAM
Community Wellness Africa also provides Wellness tourism services to the general public at an affordable rate. Wellness tourism is travel to promote health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities. While wellness tourism is often correlated with medical tourism because health interests motivate the traveler, wellness tourists are proactive in seeking to improve or maintain health and quality of life, often focusing on prevention. In contrast, medical tourists generally travel reactively to receive treatment for a diagnosed disease or condition.
Our clients immensely benefit from the wellness tourism program, which provides physical fitness and sports, beauty treatments, a healthy diet, and weight management, relaxation and stress relief, and health-related education during our trips.
Mombasa Wellness Tourism trip
Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
OUR INITIATIVES
The Team in 254 ( #TheTeamIn254 )
There is sufficient scientific evidence to prove the benefits of sport and physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. At community Wellness Africa, we believe that sports promote the health and social development of an individual. The positive, direct effects of engaging in regular physical activity are particularly apparent in the prevention of many lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Sports and physical activities also strengthen our bones, thus preventing us from conditions such as osteoporosis. Our program (The Team in 254) targets people of all ages and all genders who can participate in some physical activities or competitive sports. Some of the games played during The Team in 254 events include football, volleyball, basketball, athletics, and Safeball Sport.
We use the power of sports to promote health. A health talk before the start of a match
Robert Ogugu on NTV was discussing the role of Sports in sustainable community development. Safeball Sport
Masosa youths team
2. Community outreach programs
Our Community Outreach programs provide services to populations that might not otherwise have access or have limited access to those services. Like all other community outreach programs, we are not stationary, but mobile meaning that we go to a community to meet its members right at their localities. Community Wellness Africa works through collaboration and partnership with other institutions to avail to the community our two outreach programs
The medical outreach program which entails giving health talks, free screening, and diagnostic testing, treatment, and patient referrals
Regeneration 254 outreach program ( #Regeneration254 ) for Advocacy and Social Action, reproduction health talks for adolescents and youths, hygiene and infection control, school programs, and orphanage visits
COVID-19
Innovation and creativity being one of our values, we’ve helped a group of youths from Embakasi to develop a hand washing machine in an attempt to prevent the spread of Covid-19
This innovation by our artisans requires support both financially and through marketing to enable mass production. The machine doesn’t require touching with hands when operating it. Instead, one uses afoot to press the pedal for soap and water to be released. This machine sells for nine thousand Kenyan shillings each.
We also distribute facemasks to motorbike operators within Nairobi city, including those stationed in slum areas.
Boda Boda operators (motorbike operators) wearing facemasks to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
This hand washing machine is an invention by youths living in Embakasi south, Nairobi.
