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  Women prisoners in Shimon la Tewa maximum Prison to undergo legal advice.             Ambassador Dr. Christian Kellner with Prison officials at Shimo la Tewa Women Prison By: Caroline katana  A ustrian Embassy in partnership with non governmental organization Kituo cha Sheria and the Kenya Prison Service has commissioned a paralegal Justice Centre at Shimo la Tewa women maximum prison, Mombasa county. The paralegal  justice  Centre is among the projects in Kenya funded by Australia Embassy  The Centre  creates a safe space of inmates trained as Paralegals to offer legal advice to other inmates who in most cases a not able to articulate their issues learn to understand court procedures, get skills and knowledge and empowerment so that they can be able to stand in court and defend themselves. A study shows that some inmates serve in prison sentences due to poor representation in courts.         ...

                                              Samba Sports official with KQ participants posing for a photo. H ope of life for depressed youths in Kwale. By Caroline Katana. .22.9.23   O ver 2000 youths in Kwale county benefited from trauma healing sessions to enhance mental wellbeing through a project dubbed as Kumekucha Quest Kumekucha is a swahili word meaning "a new dawn. Kumekucha Quest project is famously described as A new Dawn for Hope and Connections. The 27 months pilot project implemented in Kenya through The Green String Network ,Sambasports Youths Agenda Organisation is funded by The Grand challenges Canada The KQ project target youths, teenagers and children, with a view of inspiring self awareness, self -acceptance, hope ,community care and relational Wellbeing. The KQ project started on 2021 following increasing cases of suicide, insecurities and drugs ...

  Insufficient funding frustrate efforts to equip healthcare workers with diagnostic skills on leprosy.  By  Caroline Katana, Kwale Although leprosy is grouped as a rare disease According to the World Health Organization,WHO approximately 208,000 people have leprosy (Hansen's disease) globally , with most cases found in Asia and Africa. In the United States, about 100 people receive a leprosy (Hansen's disease) diagnosis every year. The exact mechanism of transmission of leprosy is not known. At least until recently, the most widely held belief was that the disease was transmitted by contact between cases of leprosy and healthy persons. More recently the possibility of transmission by the respiratory route is gaining ground. There are also other possibilities such as transmission through insects which cannot be completely ruled out. 1980s , the highly feared disease, was declared eliminated. Statistics from the Ministry of Health, however, show that cases of leprosy have ...