SWAP creates awareness on health related topics to community members including Community Health Promoters,HIV support groups and builds their capacity.
Groups targeted are widows, people living with HIV, home based care groups, youth groups, orphan support groups and other self help groups.
SWAP promotes and demonstrates safe water and health products using Education Through Listening(ETL), an interactive method with the community, building
on existing knowledge and helping them to adopt positive behavioral change.
SWAP introduces safe water systems interventions which includes safe water treatment,ceramic filters, safe water storage and behavioral change.
Mobilization is done through chief meetings, church gatherings, village elders, existing structures. Individual groups are identified and visited. Groups are offered the health products at wholesale price and are encouraged to sell in their communities. Groups sell door to door, during home based care, in community kiosks and pharmacies and during chief’s meetings.
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SWAP recruits individuals drawn from HIV support groups and Community Units and engages them after training to promote health and sell health products from door to door to an average of 100 households each. The Community Health Promoters operate from Jamii Centers which community members can access for health information and products and where all the health products are stored. Weekly the Community Health Promoters come to these centers to reorder new stock, reconcile their sales and calculate and take home their profit. They receive training on the job and mentoring by the field officers to help them improve their sales and income. SWAP further mobilizes communities by attending chief’s meeting, community stakeholders meetings, churches and clinics. SWAP participates in community launches and exhibitions and reaches out to partner organizations during the stakeholders forum.