How We Shall Keep Traction Toward The 2025 TB Prevention Goals; An End of July 2021 Mini-Report

Any grassroots based organization working in the quality health promotion must be hands on as far as the synergy of livelihood, healthy living and development go.

We are that type of organization providing support tools to leverage community organizing to be receptive to the wherewithal of TB Prevention at local levels.

We show how it is important to identify the processes, the people who animate the delivery of services and lastly the contexts.

Before any organization is provided support to take on health promotion initiatives we provide scenarios to empower them to fathom the requirements of commitment to achieving goals.

For instance the Anti-TB

Milestones for 2025 are:

"a. 75% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths as compared with 2015

b. 50% reduction in Tuberculosis incidents rate to less than 55 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis."

This means that any organization engaging in Anti-TB initiatives must have:

1. People willing to take up the roles and responsibilities of Anti-TB Champions

2. The people must ensure they are aware of how to protect themselves and those they are to reach out to.

3. The people must have common sources of messages which they deliver without risking misleading others thus, enhancing prevention which are disseminated in different ways such as, music, dance, drama, skits, posters, fliers, door-to-door visits, interviews, talk-shows, Town-halls, literature reviews,meetings, counselling and guidance to name but a few.

4. They must have knowledge of area leaders whom they build rapport with so that the combined buy-in by leaders ensures uptake by the local beneficiaries.

5. They must draw plans to continue being committed to health promotion because this is a life long exercise. This also means knowing how much they are willing to commit without jeopardizing other life's goals.

6. They must be ready to generate reports which can be shared among leaders or anyone who needs to access them.

What this will establish is an organization of capable people with accompanying resources to enable them carry out planned activities.

It takes planning, commitment and a strong will.

Join our Anti-TB efforts. It takes you and us to kick TB out of Africa.

The Stop TB Strategic Direction Pointers

Stop TB Grassroots Based Strategy 

We collaborate with many other actors in the effort to end TB.

In 2019, the 30 high TB burden countries accounted for 87% of new TB cases.

Eight countries accounted for the 2/3 of the total TB burden with India leading the count, followed by Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and South Africa according to the Global Tuberculosis Report: WHO

The components of the Stop TB Strategy include:

1. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement

2. Address TB/HIV, MDR-TB and other special challenges

3. Contribute to health system strengthening

4. Engage all care providers 

5. Empower people living with TB 

A world free of Tuberculosis-zero deaths, disease and suffering due to Tuberculosis

Milestones for 2025:

a. 75% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths as compared with 2015

b. 50% reduction in Tuberculosis incidents rate to less than 55 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis

Targets for 2035:

a. 95% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths compared with 2015

b. 90% reduction in Tuberculosis incidence rate to less than 10 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis

Principles:

1. Government stewardship and accountability, with monitoring and evaluation

2. String coalition with civil society organizations a s communities

3. Protection and promotion of human rights, ethics and equity

4. Adaptation of the strategy and targets at country level, with global collaboration

The pillars and components:

1. Integrated, patient-centred care and prevention such as prevention, treatment, care and organizing communities offering support.

2. Bold policies and supportive systems such as universal health coverage, social protection and addressing determinants of Tuberculosis.

3. Intensified research and innovation such as optimizing implementation, impact and promoting Innovation.

It is our hope that your continued support will foster wider participation by people in testing, screening, treatment and preventing TB.

For more on the above information, please read the CDC, MOH, WHO and Stop TB sources.

We are committed to the end to TB Campaign through strategic grassroots-based activities.

#StopTBPartnership

#StopTBKenya

#StopTBAfrica

#StopTB

The Full Extent Of The Family Based Therapy Model (FBTM) Activities

Family Based Therapy Model (FBTM)

This is our August 2021 to July 2022 plan

FBTM has been a mainstay approach to re-establishing ourselves as dignified persons. We engage actively and make sure nothing disrupts our commitment to FBTM goals.

FBTM is an approach enabling participants rediscover, reproduce, retain and repurpose (4R's) loving and charitable bonds.

If adhered to, it has immense rewards and a leverage to a fuller self-realization and blossoming of life.

At the Nature Network Group we put FBTM in good use.

We have strategically planned Resource Center activities.

These activities range from:

1. Livelihood based activities such as bead-work, poultry, rabbit-rearing and gardening.

2. House chores are a must at our home shelter. We draw a schedule where each beneficiary has a role to play from mopping, yard-cleaning, cobweb clearing to food-preparation.

3. Self-worth and esteem building is core to FBTM and we use regular meetings to continue with dialogue around how we want to use the facility to foster quality life at our shelter and Resource Center. We use our Resource Center as an incubator.

4. Champions or Community-owned  Resource Persons (CORPs) is an executive approach where all beneficiaries form into themselves an executive team to carry out given activities based upon their talents or specific qualifications. Some beneficiaries are University graduates, diploma or certificate holders while others are talented in music, art, performing, craft-work, permaculture, aquaculture, leadership and other areas such as cookery. So, we tap into this resource base and direct them in ways to put their qualifications or talents in use. We have house managers, health navigators, entertainment officers and errand executors. This is how we have built a space for self-dependence and accountability.

We shall continue show-casing the things we do and please don't hesitate asking us questions in case you want to start FBTM at your space too

#familyiseverything 

#familyfirst 

#familybasedtherapymodel 

#StopTBPartnership 

#healthylifestyle 

#healthyliving 

#healthyhabits 

#stoptbkenya 

#endthestigma 

#EndHIVEpidemic 

#EndDiscrimination

#StopTBKenya

#WeMatter

#Africa

This Week and The Anti-TB and Anti-COVID-19 Campaign 26th July 2021 to 1st August 2021

Monday theme:

Please be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts. #StopTBPartnership, #StopTB #StopCOVID19.

Tuesday theme:  

COVID-19 is real. TB is real.To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully join the prevention plans around you. #StopTBPartnership.

Wednesday theme: 

We call on you to avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing. #StopTBPartnership.

Thursday theme: 

Stop TB or COVID-19 go for testing. Please seek medical attention, take medicines fully. #StopTBPartnership.

Friday Theme:

TB and COVID-19 can be prevented. Be part of the anti COVID-19 or TB campaigns. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask. #StopTBPartnership.

Saturday theme: 

To stop TB and COVID-19, be involved in anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted. #StopTBPartnership, #StopTBKenya

Sunday theme:  

To stop diseases such as COVID-19, TB, HIV and Malaria. Don't sit back. Don't allow TB and COVID-19 to prevail. #StopTBPartnership

We Are Part Of The End To TB Campaign

We Are Committed The End To TB Campaign

#stoptbkenya 

#StopTB 

#EndTB 

#TBVaccine 

#endtbby2030 

#stoptbafrica 

#StopTBPartnership

Gardening Has Many Rewards

Gardening is rewarding in many ways.

Imagine a day when you have set aside time to till the land or care for your garden.

It involves your physical side, holding a hoe or spade and swinging it around to perform an activity takes strength and sweat.

You have to do it repeatedly so that you are able to clear a wider seed-bed or tilled land.

Yes, you subject yourself to intensive work. It is strenuous but at the end of the day, it is rewarding.

But, the rewards are immense. The rewards are physiological, physical and psychological.

At the physiological level, the brain for instance, gains nourishment in form of an outpouring of dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline. These hormones refresh the parts of the brain called the frontal cortex where most of the functions that ensure routine are prompted.

The physical nature of work, prompts muscle coordination as well as oxygen intake in the body. Physical work done repeatedly blossoms into experience, skills-building and acquisition of quality knowledge of what one does.

The psychological aspect of gardening originates from the visual cues such as a cleared seed-bed without weeds or blossoming plants. The fruit of one's work is a reward that motivates one to be happy. 

Gardening through the work we routinely do has immense rewards to the individual. 

Enjoy your garden and don't treat it as a punishment or drudgery. Gardening is therapeutical and a form of production too.

End TB By 2030

The Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Work At The Nature Network Group 19th July to 25th July 2021

Monday theme:

We wish all those suffering from COVID-19 a quick recovery. Meanwhile please, support grassroots-based healthy living Activism. Promote healthy messaging. Avoid overcrowding, wear the mask, keep at home and Hand-washing. Be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts.

Tuesday theme:  

COVID-19 is real. It kills, but it can be avoided too. Take the test where possible. Find out about signs and symptoms. Keep at your home or within your community. To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully join the prevention plans around you.

Wednesday theme: 

We send our prayers of healing to all those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19. Wellness is for and by all. TB and COVID-19 are preventable but it requires your input. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing.

Thursday theme: 

We call on all of you to do something about prevention. If you suspect TB or COVID-19 go for testing. Please seek medical attention, take medicines.

Friday Theme:

COVID-19 can be prevented. Your participation makes prevention of TB and COVID-19 possible. Make sure your household and community are spaces for avoiding COVID-19 or TB. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask.

Saturday theme: 

You too can do something. Join a grassroots-based initiative or be involved in different ways for you to take part in the anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted by engaging in prevention activities please.

Sunday theme:  

When you follow the guidelines, you contribute to fighting diseases such as COVID-19, TB, HIV and Malaria. Don't sit back. Don't fold your hands. Dont allow TB and COVID-19 to prevail. They must not win. Tips on what to do: Vaccination, Hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancing and wearing the mask.

The Mask Week

Masking Week

12th July to 18th July 2021

#WorldMaskWeek

A week-long campaign. Please be part of this.

Wear your mask and use #ThanksForMasking.

Share widely please.

The Week of 11th July to 17th July 2021 At The Nature Network Group Resource Center

Monday theme:

Support grassroots-based healthy living Activism. Promote healthy messaging. Avoid overcrowding, wear the mask, keep at home and Hand-washing. Be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts.

Tuesday theme:  

COVID-19 is real. Take the test where possible. Find out about signs and symptoms. Keep at your home or within your community. To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully join the prevention plans around you.

Wednesday theme: 

Wellness is for and by all. TB and COVID-19 are preventable but it requires your input. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing.

Thursday theme: 

If you suspect TB or COVID-19 go for testing. Please seek medical attention, take medicines.

Friday Theme:

Your participation makes prevention of TB and COVID-19 possible. Make sure your household and community are spaces for avoiding COVID-19 or TB. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask.

Saturday theme: 

Join a grassroots-based initiative or be involved in different ways for you to take part in the anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted by engaging in prevention activities please.

Sunday theme:  

Don't sit back. Don't fold your hands. Dont allow TB and COVID-19 to prevail. They must not win. Tips on what to do: Vaccination, Hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancing and wearing the mask.

We Use Our Safe Space Not Only As Home But As A Resource Center

Family Based Therapy Model (FBTM) Activities

Addressing equity and equality related issues is one of the goals at our safe space.

Using our home-like space we can conduct strategic quality life promoting activities whose outcomes include: self-worth, self-esteem and confidence building.

We use psycho-social support sessions to promote dialogue around thematic issues.

This allows appropriate use of resources, we plan as a team, we participate as a team, we build dignity-affirmation bonds, we allow members to tell (in their own words) the concerns, needs and encourage them to commit to practices and habits which maintain order and co-existence in our safe space. 

It is so important when we safeguard ourselves against what can disrupt out peace, security and safety.

At the Nature Network Group the Family based therapy model(FBTM) has been a core administrative mainstay for the way we conduct these sessions.

Thank you to all who continue to be our friends, allies and well-wishers.

UHAI EASHRI Refugee Coalition of East Africa ORAM Many Coloured Sky Frontline AIDS National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

Well Facilitated Static Resource Centers Serve As Safe Spaces For Conducting Effective Physical Meetings Following The COVID-19 Pandemic Safeguards

The Nature Network Group Resource Center Activity Report June 2020-May 2021

The purpose of this short report is to show-case some of the Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV work.

We are so glad to be part of the Champions who joined the larger teams participating in the efforts to end HIV,TB, Malaria by 2030 integrating COVID-19 Prevention.

We work so hard,

We work with a smile,

We have the energy,

We want safer communities,

We contribute to peace,

We chose to share our knowledge,

We use our skills,

We know that it is responsible of us to be part of our societies,

We can be effective and useful members if we champion the health promotion activities.

We believe in quality life for all.

Please be part of our initiatives.

#thenaturenetwork

#covidloser 

#familybasedtherapymodel 

#stoptbkenya 

#StopTB 

#StopTBPartnership 

I Dance Because I am Happy

A friend asked me, "do you dance?"

I replied that, yes I do.

I dance because I am happy.

I dance because I know how to.

I dance to make others smile.

I dance because in dancing I express joy.

I also help others express themselves.

Dance brings so many of us together and we share joy.

Why do you dance?

Please tell me.

Shared Responsibility Is Impactful Leadership

We work so hard.

We make sure all of us have the skills to talk about issues.

All of us are skilled leaders.

All of us are skilled planners.

We can set up health promotion events.

Thank you to all who support our grassroots-based work.

This Week At The Nature Network Group Resource Center: The Anti-TB Anti-COVID-19 Campaign 5th July to 11th July 2021

Monday theme:

Organize healthy living sessions, avoid overcrowding, wear the mask, keep at home and Hand-washing. Be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts.

Tuesday theme:  

Take the test where possible. If not read about signs a d symptoms. Keep at your home or within your community. To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully be part of the prevention plans.

Wednesday theme: 

TB and COVID-19 are preventable but it requires your input. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing.

Thursday theme: 

Do  you suspect TB? Do you suspect COVID-19? Take the tests, seek medical attention, take the medication fully.

Friday theme: 

Prevention at local community levels is possible for TB and COVID-19. Make sure your household and community are spaces for avoiding COVID-19 or TB. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask.

Saturday theme: 

There are ways for you to take part in the anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted by engaging in prevention activities please.

Sunday theme:  

Don't allow TB and COVID-19, they must not win. This is how: Vaccination, Hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancing and wearing the mask.

The Community Outreach Plan To Promote Healthy Living July 2021-December 2021

A Caring Community Campaign July 2021-December 2021

COVID-19 and Caring Communities

We use Strategic Community Outreach to implement our work.

Communities are spaces where adults and children can access life promoting services such as masks, sanitizer, hand-washing materials, Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-HIV, Anti-Malaria and other forms of servjces.

Where communities lack such services then that is a TB, HIV, Malaria or COVID-19 related vulnerability and aggression. 

We must provide opportunities for children and all people to grow and develop well. Every person  has the right to be born well, to be cared for and raised well.

The mini plans include:

Support Healthy Living for Your Child: 

There is a connection between your sense of reality and psychological dimensions

Say No to Psychological Abuse:

Psychological abuse is typically characterised by an abuser distorting someone’s sense of reality. This is also called gas lighting. The goal of the psychological abuser is to convince the victim that she’s crazy or incompetent. She/He might, for example, insist that some event happened in a much different way than she/he remembered, to the extent that basic, verifiable facts about the situation were different. It could be something like “No, you didn’t wear your red jacket; you wore your blue jacket. Don’t you remember?” Convincing someone her/his memory is imperfect in these small matters sets the stage for larger deceptions later on. While it’s normal for people to remember events differently or to forget minor details, a psychological abuser will distort facts with the intent of undermining your confidence and making you more pliable. Children, who are provided psychological growth support face, can try out things on their own, life’s challenges and engage in problem-solving with confidence. This improves on their relationships, team-work skills, confidence and autonomy.

When you are a family and the children cannot access food, care, love, compassion, privacy, agency, autonomy and self-determination tools, then that is aggression.

When you are a community and that community cannot provide the necessary safety nets to avoid COVID-19, then that is aggression.

Know the different types of abuses:

• Physical abuse.

• sexual child abuse (Rape, molestation, child pornography)

• Neglect (Physical neglect, educational neglect, and lack of protection from diseases)

• Emotional abuse (Verbal, Mental, or Psychological related)

• Domestic violence or abuse.

• Sexual abuse

• Financial or material abuse

• Modern slavery

• Discriminatory abuse

• Organisational or institutional abuse

Abuses can lead to TB, COVID-19, Malaria, and HIV related vulnerability in communities.