This a community right based project, in Kasei ward, North Pokot Sub County in West Pokot County. The project is...
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Empowering Healthy Communities
Community Nursing Services
Delivering quality healthcare directly to remote villages and underserved households through mobile outreach clinics with preventive healthcare programs.
Community Sanitation
for Healthier Lives
From drilling boreholes to protecting natural springs, we increase access to clean and safe water — reducing disease and transforming lives.
Advocacy That Transforms
We champion for rights-based advocacy, ending harmful practices and empowering women and youths to take charge of their future.
For Sustainable Change
Building Capacity
Through mentorship and capacity building, we strengthen healthcare workers to deliver consistent, high-quality, and compassionate care.
Empowering Healthy Communities
Community Nursing Services
Delivering quality healthcare directly to remote villages and underserved households through mobile outreach clinics with preventive healthcare programs.
Community Sanitation
for Healthier Lives
From drilling boreholes to protecting natural springs, we increase access to clean and safe water — reducing disease and transforming lives.
Advocacy That Transforms
We champion for rights-based advocacy, ending harmful practices and empowering women and youths to take charge of their future.
For Sustainable Change
Building Capacity
Through mentorship and capacity building, we strengthen healthcare workers to deliver consistent, high-quality, and compassionate care.
Towards socially healthy and knowledgeable family units
Community Nursing Services (CNS) is a registered Public Benefit Organization committed to improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable, marginalized, and hard-to-reach communities in Kenya. Guided by our mission to provide households with quality healthcare and social empowerment, we develop and implement community-based programs that address the root causes of poor health. From mobile medical outreach to clean water initiatives and advocacy for social change, we work hand in hand with communities—ensuring families in low-income areas receive the care, knowledge, and support they need to thrive.
MORE ABOUT US
HOW WE WORK
Community Health Development
Improving access to health services and adoption of healthy practices by the Community
Community Advocacy Programs and Social Mobilization
We aim to increase community awareness through sensitization on their social rights, abandoning harmful traditional practices through change projects and social mobilization
Mother and Child Health (MCH) on Wheels
The main objective is to increase community access to preventive healthcare, that is, Family Planning, Antenatal Care, Nutritional Assessment, Immunization, and Health Education.
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
The CLTS program aims to improve the sanitation status of the community by sensitizing each household to own and use latrine with proper hygiene thus greatly reducing sanitation related diseases.
Water Projects
The main aim is to increases access to clean and safe drinking water by drilling boreholes, sinking shallow wells, and protecting natural springs leading to reduced water related diseases.
Healthcare Workers Training
The main aim is to increase capacity, knowledge and skills of health workers through mentorship programs, focus group discussions, Continuous Medical Education (CME) and planned sensitization leading to standardized and improved healthcare service delivery.
Dental Program
It is a community oral health program aimed at increasing oral and dental healthcare services through free dental campaigns in schools and communities.
Change Projects
These are advocacy projects aimed at sensitizing the community to reduce harmful and retrogressive cultures which undermine their rights such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage, teenage pregnancies.
Social Mobilization
The programs aim to trigger the Community to self-led action and initiatives to support community development initiative promoting community health and well-being through forums, appraisals and intervention towards community driven solutions and promoting right-based approach.
Together with the Community, for the Community
“Real change begins when the community becomes the driver of its own health and wellbeing.”
At Community Nursing Services, we believe in the power of collective action. By working hand in hand with households, local leaders and grassroots volunteers, we create sustainable solutions that reflect the community’s own priorities and strengths.
OUR IMPACT
Counties where we work
0
Sub Locations reached with rights based advocacy
0
Villages declared open defecation-free
0
Children immunized every year
0
K
Natural springs protected
Serving
Households
158
21,635
Shallow wells dug
Reaching
Households
104
23,385
Drilled well
Serving
Households
1
340
60%
Reduction in FGM reported cases in our advocacy areas
ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION
Increased
of girls in schools
40%+
Fully immunized child achieved in our areas of operation
DEMAND FOR RIGHTS
By the community from rights holders
Increased
Be part of the change the community needs
Water is Life
At Community Nursing Services, we implement sustainable water projects like drilling boreholes, protecting springs, and sinking shallow wells to reduce waterborne diseases and ease the burden on families in underserved areas.
OUR PARTNERS
Community Nursing Services has partnered with Rotary Doctors Sweden since 2014 to implement and strengthen community health programs. Their support has been instrumental in reaching vulnerable and remote communities with essential healthcare services, enhancing local capacity, and promoting sustainable health development across Kenya.
