Vivian
Amwayi is combining her community health skills and her natural acting ability
to get across vital messages about healthy living.
She
is helping educate the women who live in Mafungoni village near Mombasa how to
protect themselves and their families against common ailments by adopting
simple but effective measures such as good hand-washing and filtering water.
The
photo shows Vivian giving a practical demonstration of effective hand-washing,
which is very important in an area where there is no running water or sewerage
system.
Vivian
has been also been issuing medicines to treat worms and fungal scalp
infections. Already this year, nearly 600 people have benefited from the campaign.
Footsteps has helped care for Vivian at the Tumaini Children's Home in Mombasa since she was 12 years old.
