Sega’s Community Health Workers have been volunteering for between 9 and 27 years.
Janerose is a trained Community Health Volunteer, a counsellor, and a farmer. She joined the Sega health volunteer team in 1988 and is currently responsible for 134 households, going door-to-door with health education and support aimed at preventing common illnesses.
Jane has worked on projects with goal4.org since 2011, joining the Advisory Board in 2022.
She has worked with various health based organizations in her capacity as a Community Health Volunteer. She’s participated in outreach programs that aim to eradicate HIV/AIDS transmission, has taught family planning, and has educated the public on basic hygiene practices.
Her desire to see her community advance drives her to champion and lead various social groups in Sega that empower both men and women economically and socially.
Janerose spearheads goal4.org Mothers’ Education women’s group that continues the role of teaching families basic skills for keeping their children safe and healthy. Under her guidance, the group supports its members financially through loans, table banking, and farming projects.
Her hopes for her community are to see the upgrade of Sega Dispensary to a 24 hour Health Center, to see the community embrace health education and develop proactive health-seeking behaviors, and to see a healthier and more productive community where members collaborate for the common good.
Monica Akinyi Odongo is the head of Sega’s public health facility, Sega Dispensary. She is a registered nurse whose broad responsibilities at the Dispensary include administration of the facility, managing the staff, and treating patients.
Prior to joining Sega Dispensary, she managed a newly built Dispensary in rural Masasia where she built a team of staff and volunteers and oversaw furnishing and equipping the facility all while treating patients and carrying out her administrative duties. During her time at Masasia Dispensary, she successfully managed the laborious process of getting electricity installed and built a working relationship with the community that became a model in the region. Members of other community health units came to Masasia Dispensary to observe and learn.
Monica is passionate about maternal and child health and helping others. She was a volunteer social worker with the organization Children First and tutored fellow students at Maseno Nursing School.
Monica graduated from Murang’a Kenya Medical Training College with a diploma in Community Health Nursing.
Her hopes for Sega are to help complete the transition of the Dispensary to a 24 hour health center, to see Sega’s community groups continue their strong advocacy for the facility, and for individual community members to enhance their lives and health by making use of the health services that the facility offers.
Rabin is the nursing officer in charge Sega Dispensary, the only public (free) health facility in Sega. He manages the facility, coordinates all health services, sees patients, and is responsible for community health. He was recruited to Sega to help develop and grow the Dispensary’s maternity service, including promoting the service to mothers in the community. In his past job, at a similar small, rural dispensary, he did just that – improved the maternity services and influenced a shift in the number of women who give birth at the health facility rather than at home. He is a skilled mentor, manager, and communicator.
Albert has worked in education throughout his professional career. He began as a classroom teacher, later rose to the position of headmaster, then Approved Graduate Teacher. He went on to become an inspector of schools in Uganda and Kenya. He was born and raised in western Kenya where now, in retirement, he dedicates his time and skills to supporting local schools and community organizations.
Colm is a technical project manager on Google’s robotics team. Throughout his career, he has specialized in large-scale, multi-national telecommunications projects, in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. At Inveneo, a non-profit social enterprise that delivers low-powered networks to rural Africa, Colm participated in the post-earthquake response effort in Haiti, supporting the field team as they set up emergency communications for first-responders in the field. Prior to a decade managing non-profit projects, Colm managed global telecommunications projects for Ericsson in Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Botswana, Macau, Canada, and the USA. He helped establish Ericsson’s US presence, building the technical support organization and managing the build-out of Ericsson’s US network.
