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Mobile phones deliver healthcare in Mwingi

“The HELP project seeks to use new technologies to address old problems. We first undertake face-to-face training of community workers for 10 days and thereafter they can use their mobile phones to text for assistance or listen to saved audio that was used in class for reference.”

“Similar to WhatsApp, the platform also allows the volunteers to interact with each other in deliberating on a diagnosis or measuring their success in influencing the communities that are assigned to them,” she said.

Veronica Kitavi one of the trained volunteers however asked that the partners give them solar panelled phones citing lack of electricity as a major hurdle in the use of the mobile learning platform.

“I live in a very remote area where we have no electricity and I have to walk long distances and sometimes my phone is off when the community needs me,” observed Kitavi.

The HELP platform which is in its pilot stage will undertake to train a total of 300 community health volunteers in Samburu, Mwingi and Kibera.

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