By Siana Agagliate | Resource Mobilization Manager
It was a pleasantly sunny afternoon for the motor mobile clinic when it arrived in Kirimon. Kirimon is a small community in Laikipia north. CHAT’s nurse, Pauline, was working away under a tree, waving down everybody she saw as she waited for Susan, a community own resource persons (CORP) who does family planning/ecological awareness mobilization with CHAT. Susan came back much sooner than usual from doing her door to door family planning & TB mobilization. She was being ‘hauled’ back to the clinic by a very enthusiastic client - a lady named Naishoree.
Naishoree sat beside Nurse Pauline looking very comfortable; it seemed like she had already made a decision with the information she had soaked in from Susan on their way to the clinic under the tree. She explained that she is a mother to 10 children, for a 32 year old woman this does seem like quite a burden, for any woman really! Susan said that she had met Naishoree in the village, she was going to World Vision (an NGO) to request for some goods. She simply cannot afford to purchase enough food for all her children nor does she have the strength, land let alone time to plant a substantial garden. Naishoree took Susan’s arm almost immediately the moment Susan mentioned family planning and dragged to Nurse Pauline.
She quietly listened as Nurse Pauline explained the various methods of contraception at length, Naishoree seemed to dismiss the shorter term methods without much thought. Eventually she said to Pauline that she doesn’t want any more children and she would like something that will stop her from ever having another child again. Tubal ligation was mentioned and that seemed to spark an interest in Naishoree’s eye but once she had understood what the procedure entails she said that she’d rather go for the 5 year contraception protection method.
During the five minute insertion procedure Naishoree told Pauline that if she knew about family planning before she would have only had five children, she would have done a lot of things differently and maybe her life would have been different. Once she was all plastered up she got up and admired her arm and she said that she will tell everyone about the importance of family planning. She took Pauline by the hand and shook her hand so vigorously that her pen fell out her front pocket.
Naishoree is so very grateful for the services CHAT provides. “…these services wouldn’t be possible without your help, thank you.”
** NB names have been changed to protect individuals, all stories have been approed by each individual before posting.
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