My Story
My name is Bramuel Simiyu and I’m the Local Representative for kayole-soweto village. I am married to Judy Nakhumicha. She and my two sons don’t live with me in Nairobi but they stay in bungoma in rural malakisi due to official duty. My sons are Marvin Oteya Simiyu and Maxwell Juma Simiyu age 11years and 2years. I was brought up in rural area Malakisi with my four brothers and one sister. At that time, there was neither public health center nor private hospitals, and we had to walk long distance to and from the health center. My parents were very poor even they could not afford to pay my mothers hospital bill and it was so sad to me. I had just finished my A level Education when my mother passed away. My father was living in Kayole-Soweto village and then i had to join him. Before my mother died i was living with her, four brothers and one sister in a rural area. I went to primary school at the rural area where I was living with my mother. and I joined my father in kayole-sowetoAfter my K.C.P.E I started living with my father I went in secondary school which was near Soweto slums for my first three years, then moved to a boarding school in western Kenya before a finish my K.C.S.E. after which I went back to kayole-soweto village to live with my father. Later I joined the university in our neighboring country Uganda, because of high fees in Kenyans’ public university and my father was just working as a welder in a small company in industrial area in Nairobi while living in Kayole-soweto.Most of the community members in kayole- Soweto have known me from my childhood to my adulthood. Some of the children we were in the same secondary school together. That being said my age mates are now the adults residing in Kayole-soweto Slum.After my Education and college graduate in community development and strategic plan in community development (C.D. &.SDCD), the community strategic committee board. gave me the task to come out with a strategic plan for the best of the community to set up a health care services within Kayole-Soweto.
Due to environmental system children, youths, woman and all people were suffering from malaria, typhoid and anther backbone diseases. Those who were losing their parents due to HIV/AIDS pandemic, natural death and those from poor families that could not afford to the hospital expenses. I usually wake up at 05.30 hours. I do not have an alarm clock but as it is my habit to wake up at this time I don’t need one. Then I have tea and sweet potatoes in Kiswahili word is( viasi damu) for breakfast. I leave for my voluntary job which is caring of sick poor families at ARROW WEB HOSPITAL our community healthcare centre. My role as local representative is to play the leading role in providing grassroots information about the project. Giving steps that will enable the project reach its focus; answer all questions from Neighbours. I have already registered the legal status of the Organization with the Kenya Non governmental organization board N.G.O and I have legal registration certificate from the Kenya medical board which you obtain from the ministry of health in Kenya as a private voluntary medical institutions . With this in my hand, right now I think am headed in the right direction of having the project on the right path. My dream with this project is to see poor families accessing the quality and high standard medical care without fearing of high bills in the private and public hospitals. I will be fully satisfied once I see a complete and equipped hospital build for this community. My motto: “Never giver up and use your knowledge ” What drives me to help? If nothing happens today to build a community Hospital in this Village, several families will continue dying from unnecessary illnesses due to long distance to and from the public hospitals. They will not get quality health services. Vicious circles of poverty experienced now in the Kayole-Soweto Slums will continue to bring more difficulty of living in a better environments and it will never come to an end.
Our project Kayole/Soweto community has an estimated population of over 798,000 people majority of whom live below the poverty level, and earning less than a dollar a day according to geographic dimensions of well being in Kenya.Who and where are the poor? Embakasi had 61% incidences of cases of below poverty line and was ranged 196 out of 210 constituencies in Kenya. Embakasi is constituted by most of the slum areas in Nairobi. This has been taken as an advantage by those who collect garbage by making it a dumping site of all sorts which result in too many diseases, mostly Malaria typhoid, and TBFuture For sure the project is for the benefit of future generation in Kayole-Soweto. Once the hospital is built this community will benefit by getting better healthcare services near their environs. Instead of walking fourteen kilometers to the public health center. About NABUURI found Nabuur through a friend of my by his name is Stephen Okwaro village representative of Matopeni village. Through Nabuur, I have known several people around the world some of whom we have communicated through the internet and I have seen them as my best friends, which we can chat, discuss with them and they gave me some ideas of what am could to do for my community project to succeed . Nabuur is quite helpful to the grass root Villages like Kayole-Soweto. Nabuur connects our Village to the outside world and to other organizations which can help us.I can say that Nabuur has empowered me with techniques, how to communicate share the ideas with anther neighbours and Organizations that can fund our project. Internet The internet reduces the whole world to a Village where residents can learn the problems facing their neighbours and step in to assist get a solution to that particular problem. It brings people in contact with the outside world. Internets connect kayole-soweto Village to other funding organizations around the world which can help us I go to a cyber Café for internet connection. It costs me one shilling per minute or sixty shilling per hour


