By Tom Fondo
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20 days of celebrating Harm reduction Heroes as we look forward to celebrate “Mashujaa Day” on 20th of October. We remember the efforts and courage taken by our recovering drug users who for the last 15 years of Reachout Centre Trust have been the backbone of or activities holding on their recovery journey. Wallid Yusuf…
In the annual commemoration of the international day against drug and illicit trafficking Reachout Centre Trust led other anti-drug partners and other civil society organizations. Led by the organizations’ Executive director the celebrations started at Totonoka grounds along the Coast Provincial referral hospital, Digo road through Bondeni to Makadara grounds. The community should take the…
Recognizing people who use drugs and who have ventured into disentangle themselves from the menace is our daily mandate and helping them to successful walk out of the traumatizing experience encourages us as an organization to even put extra efforts into realizing our core role of reducing the negative effects of drug use and HIV.…
As our close working partners, prisons remain in need of health services among them HIV testing and counseling, health education and minor treatment of general illnesses as well as periodic counseling sessions for the inmates and other related health problems. Our Team usually spends time at the prison every week in providing one on one…
Getting to know your HIV status is important for your health, your relationships, your life and your future. The growth of new infections continues to pose serious health risks. People who are infected with HIV tend to spread HIV infection because 20% of those infected are unaware of their HIV status. Those undiagnosed…
Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana, Cocaine and nicotine also are considered drugs. When you’re addicted, you may continue using the drug…
Only my parents can explain the painful burden of my addiction. I graduated into alcoholism, smoked bhang and lastly I found myself into deep heroin addiction. I was introduced to drugs use by partner who became my husband and together we had three children. He later died, one of my close friend also died and…
A new dawn for female drug users as Reachout Centre Trust launches ‘Beauty corner’ where the drug users will learn beauty therapy techniques. The Kenya Red Cross Society and Reachout Centre Trust funded project will equip female drug users with various beauty therapy techniques so that they also initiate their own income generating projects and…
Reachout Centre Trust congratulates all participants in the two day ‘3 on 3 Basketball tournament’ that took place on 22nd and 23rd December 2018 at the KPA Makande welfare Social hall. All the 200 youth who participated in the tournament are our heroes since they have shown the zeal and support to our noble course…
Since 2005, Reachout Centre Trust had a good working relation with the media fraternity in highlighting drug menace not only in Coast but Kenya at large; we acknowledge the support you have accorded us all through in combating this menace. It is with the above reference that we are recognizing Journalists who have joined us…
By lee Ibrah
