Local Partner Rachel Karanja transformation work c…
Rachel Karanja recently attended training on natural medicines and moved into the communities where she lives sharing the same message of using locally available resources to meet day to day needs in this case medication.
Local Partner Rachel Karanja who is a Business as Mission Champion in Limuru Kenya is grateful to God for restoring her health which has really stabilized since she suffered stroke after an accident while in missions.
Completed studies in Community Development at St Paul’s University and she is awaiting graduation in October. She is trusting start her Master’s Programme in Development studies. Her studies are helping her to engage better with the community by helping them to appreciate the resources they have to help them meet their needs.
Thanks God for her involvement in community where she creates awareness and helps the local to get involved in matters governance and administration.
Rachel has become a champion and advocate for the community where she lives, Kabuku by advancing the needs of the people so as to get them prioritized by the Governments and administrators. She rejoices that together with her husband, they have been mandated to head the Nyumba Kumi initiative which focuses on security matters.
She has also advocated for community initiatives like one source of water- boreholes, tree planting, tree harvesting as opposed to cutting which ensure that environmental conservation is enhanced in her area.
In health, Rachel has initiated a programme that reaches the poor with natural medicine. She teaches the community on how to harvest and make use of locally available herbs and trees like Pawpaw, Muringa, Artemisia.
She is working also working with local schools by creating awareness to ensure that their meals are fortified with Muringa for enhancing their died.
She is working with the community to ensure that every family has a small medicinal garden with plants aloe vera, pawpaw, Artemisia and hibiscus. This will help the families to address their basic medical needs at no cost! Artemisia for instance works very well when someone gets fever or Malaria. Burns and wounds can be managed using aloe Vera and pawpaw leaves and latex.
Rachel thanks God for the transformation she is experiencing and witnessing in the community through her involvement and intervention in the areas of environmental conservation, health, and advocacy.
Her goal is to ensure sustainable community interventions i.e, use of leaves and seeds as opposed to use of backs and roots which would kill the plants. Ref. Ezekiel 47:12.
Local Partner Rachel Karanja who is a Business as Mission Champion in Limuru Kenya is grateful to God for restoring her health which has really stabilized since she suffered stroke after an accident while in missions.
Completed studies in Community Development at St Paul’s University and she is awaiting graduation in October. She is trusting start her Master’s Programme in Development studies. Her studies are helping her to engage better with the community by helping them to appreciate the resources they have to help them meet their needs.
Thanks God for her involvement in community where she creates awareness and helps the local to get involved in matters governance and administration.
Rachel has become a champion and advocate for the community where she lives, Kabuku by advancing the needs of the people so as to get them prioritized by the Governments and administrators. She rejoices that together with her husband, they have been mandated to head the Nyumba Kumi initiative which focuses on security matters.
She has also advocated for community initiatives like one source of water- boreholes, tree planting, tree harvesting as opposed to cutting which ensure that environmental conservation is enhanced in her area.
In health, Rachel has initiated a programme that reaches the poor with natural medicine. She teaches the community on how to harvest and make use of locally available herbs and trees like Pawpaw, Muringa, Artemisia.
She is working also working with local schools by creating awareness to ensure that their meals are fortified with Muringa for enhancing their died.
She is working with the community to ensure that every family has a small medicinal garden with plants aloe vera, pawpaw, Artemisia and hibiscus. This will help the families to address their basic medical needs at no cost! Artemisia for instance works very well when someone gets fever or Malaria. Burns and wounds can be managed using aloe Vera and pawpaw leaves and latex.
Rachel thanks God for the transformation she is experiencing and witnessing in the community through her involvement and intervention in the areas of environmental conservation, health, and advocacy.
Her goal is to ensure sustainable community interventions i.e, use of leaves and seeds as opposed to use of backs and roots which would kill the plants. Ref. Ezekiel 47:12.