Constance Gathi

Nutrition Officer| #maternal #nutrition #infantfeeding #childnutrition

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

We're proud to have hosted students from @alueducation's Health Signature Immersive Experience #SIE2026.

Our SRHR & Economic Empowerment team showcased the impact of #SHESOARS, while field visits in Dagoretti and Mwiki gave students first-hand experience of community-led, integrated health services.

Investing in tomorrow's health leaders starts today.

#CAREAlwaysThere #PartnershipsForImpact #SRHR #YouthLeadership

[K. Kimuyu @wakimuyu]

There is a samosa at Java that goes for 390 bob. You look at the price and wonder what the samosa has that makes its cost similar to your electricity bill. You flip the menu, trying to ignore it, but then you come back again and wonder why a samosa should be priced the same as 10 blouses at Toi Market?

Perhaps it comes with the powers that keep you from drunk dialing your ex, or the soberness that makes you file your taxes on time. It must have a syrup that keeps you away from your neighbor's business and makes you focus on your goals.

You flip the menu again and stare at the pages without really seeing them. Your mind is somewhere else. It’s on that samosa. 390 bob? For a triangular blob of flour? Come on, kwani it shops at Quickmart and reads Business Daily?

You go back to it, and it gives you a smug look. ‘You can’t afford me, can you?’ You can hear it toying with you. You decide to teach its snobbery a lesson by making it swim with your gastric juices, and you order it.

It fills up the plate it comes on. On the side, a lemon. You squeeze it, pick up the fork and knife that come with another plate, and as you start digging in, you can feel your goals coming into focus. You can also feel something else. It’s your electricity bill screaming. ‘You’re going to eat your noodles in the dark.’

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

The #AISA2026 presented a valuable opportunity to build relationships, explore strategic partnerships, and strengthen @CAREinKenya 's position within Kenya's growing climate adaptation ecosystem.

@CARE_Danmark and @KCV_Kenya signed a partnership launching the Asili Fund, supporting early-stage climate adaptation enterprises across Africa.

Together, we're building a more climate-resilient future.

#CAREAlwaysThere #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateFinance #AISA2026

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

What if the future of food security is being planted in a school garden right now?

For @CAREinKenya, nutrition is the foundation of a healthier future. Through the CASCADE Project, we partner with the Ministry of Education, the Youth in Modern Agriculture Unit & Nakuru County Dept. of Agriculture to bring school Kitchen Gardens & 4K Clubs to life.

Learners get hands-on training from school patrons and expert mentorship from county agronomists. They then pass this knowledge to fellow students and take it home to their families, replicating kitchen gardens and boosting household nutrition.

One school. One garden. One family at a time. This is CASCADE in action. 💚

#CAREKenya #CASCADEProject #4KClubs

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

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[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

One day someone will write the history of Kenya and say, here lie the ruins of a nation destroyed by greed.

[1,000 Days @1000Days]

The 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s 2nd birthday set the foundation for all the days that follow.

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

@CARE Global Partners, Sophie Lahmar & Runa Alam, visited the Obokonyi Group, in Embakasi, Nairobi County, a VSLA community of 27 members who have saved KES 99,200 and are changing lives through financial inclusion.

Their message? “We want to empower others, just as we have been empowered.”

This is the CASCADE Project in action.

#CASCADEProject #CAREAlwaysThere #WomensEmpowerment

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

Impact so far:
💰 KES 115,000 first share-out
📈 Expanded businesses (salons, food, retail)
📱 Digital savings via Dreamsave

[K. Kimuyu @wakimuyu]

You got the promotion in January 2020. ‘Regional Sales Manager.’ With it came a car, and you moved your family to the suburbs and your kids to Group of Schools. People cry about Njaanuary but not you. You were laughing all the way to the bank. Your wife was happy, your kids were happy. The receptionist was even flirting with you. ‘Regional Sales Manager.’ It had a nice ring to it. If you could, you would flirt with yourself too.

January went quickly, and February was here. Time flies when you have money. You developed a palate for golf and got a membership in that country club. It was already end-of-February before you could pronounce ‘caddie’, and there was talk of a flu from Wuhan. You shrugged. Flu? You even laughed. Not with your top-of-the-range health insurance.

March knocked on the door. The upper echelon of the organization called an emergency meeting and told you, you had to take a pay cut and lay off half of your team. A pay cut was all right. You would just dial down on the country club membership, and besides, the kids were home now. You were upbeat even though you had a chill down your spine. ‘What if it all goes away?’

April came, and you saw that email you were dreading. You were all being sent on leave without pay. You stared at it unblinking as if you could see right through the screen. You tried to comfort yourself. ‘By May things will be back to normal.’ April was slow. You spent your time sitting uneasily on your sofa and burning through your savings, wondering who you were now. Who were you really if you were not the Regional Sales manager?

The arguments with your wife started. You could no longer pay the mortgage in suburbia. The internet was cut. Then the electricity followed. Food was under candlelit but that disappeared too. And then the wife took the kids and disappeared.

You made it through a week without electricity, water, and dignity, with auctioneers banging on your door before you decided to end it all. You were going to do it in that car. You were going to smash into a bridge at ninety miles an hour. It was the means of your rise, and now it would be the means of your demise. Poetic.

While en route to the bridge, you came across these vendors with big cars on the roadside. It piqued your interest. Besides, you didn’t want to gamble. You didn’t know if you would make it to your maker in time for supper, so you slowed down for a banana.

While peeling it, you talked shop. There was an accountant selling tomatoes. An engineer selling potatoes and the professor who sold you bananas. He was short of hands, and he asked if you could come on board, and you did.

You look back, it's 2026, and now you have a smoothie and ice cream joint at Sarit whose focus is banana flavor. You did go bananas, and with the sun coming out, your bank account is going bananas, too. You smile at the memory and feel a little bit bananas that you were a Regional Sales Manager who could sell water to a well, yet there you were about to end it all because of a minor setback.

[1,000 Days @1000Days]

Breastfeeding is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to protect a baby’s health.

It can:
🔴 prevent over 800,000 child deaths each year
⬇️ lower the risk of disease,
⬇️ reduce malnutrition,
💓 and provides benefits to moms too.

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

"As a healthcare worker, we also need support." - Gorrety Odero, a nutritionist, @NakuruCountyGov Teaching and Refferal Hospital.

#WorldHealthWorkerWeek #CASCADE

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

As we end the #WorldHealthWorkerWeek we ask that all health systems Value. Invest. Protect. And Strengthen their most valuable asset—their #healthworkers.

#CASCADE #SheHealsTheWorld

[1,000 Days @1000Days]

The science is clear: the #first1000days, from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday, shape a lifetime of health, growth, and opportunity.

Good #nutrition during this critical window allows children to build strong immune systems and grow to their full physical and cognitive potential.

This #WorldHealthDay, let’s commit to supporting strong families and investing in the earliest moments!

#InvestInNutrition

[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

I said it before, am saying it again, one day someone will look at Kenya and say, here lie the ruins of a country destroyed by greed.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

There’s no ceremony more iconic than Mr. Bean’s opening at the London 2012 Olympics

[1,000 Days @1000Days]

The first 1,000 days are the most effective time to invest in a child's nutrition and set them up for success for the rest of their lives. During this period, even small, targeted nutrition interventions can have an outsized impact, helping children to develop and grow to their full potential. #March4Nutrition

[Dishome Kidawida @DishomeKidawida]

In this episode 54, we are learning some of the commonly used action phrases within the Dawida/Taita community. E.g. Nichurie, rughua, kabanya, kughema etc.
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[1,000 Days @1000Days]

A groundbreaking study provides the first global quantification of breastfeeding’s role in preventing chronic diseases. The data is stunning and reinforces what we have long advocated: #breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support are lifesaving, cost-effective, and essential.

Read the full results here: https://t.co/v9I1r9j59M

[CARE Kenya @CAREinKenya]

Through the CASCADE Project, @CAREinKenya and @GAINAlliance_KE convened CBOs and the @SUNBizNet for a 4-day Budget Making and Civic Engagement Workshop in Nairobi.

#Nutrition #PublicParticipation #CASCADE