UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Annual Cancer Walk 25th January 2025.
ABOUT US
Lady Hope’s support program is focused on cancer patients from poor and low income groups located in slum settlements in Nairobi and some rural areas who are undergoing treatment in Kenyatta Hospital, our country’s main referral hospital. The primary focus is on cervical cancer patients but ovarian, breast, and other cancer patients are also considered. The activities of the project are undertaken at the Church grounds of St. Catherine of Siena, Kihingo, (Westlands Nairobi) in addition to our shelter home in the njathaini area, kabete, kiambu county. This initiative was out of the need to embrace all those who have been rejected back at home and are stigmatised together with others who have never been to the City and who otherwise would not know where and how to go about the specialized treatment after referral. Lady Hope Wellness Institute uplifts some of the patients from the grassroots during our cancer awareness forums while we recruit others through a partnership that we have with some cancer screening health facilities. In such cases, before the patients proceed to Kenyatta hospital, the national referral hospital, the facilities refers poor patients who cannot support themselves to us for financial, moral, and other support.
Vision
To improve access to reproductive health education among the girl child and needy women in the community by creating cervical cancer awareness, mitigating its infections and reducing its effects on the Kenyan economy.
Mission
To cater for the basic needs of cancer infected and affected needy persons by involving the wider community in promoting the welfare of the sick and working directly with them to empower the affected as we integrate them back to the community as our voices in the cancer fight.
Goals
- Create cancer awareness by involving the cancer patients.
- Giving hope to cancer patients during and after the course of illness.
- Empowerment of vulnerable cancer affected families through skills training, income generating activities and provision of materials for economic re-establishment.
- Youth mentorship programmes.
What We Do
** Pay for Treatment
We enroll our members into Kenya’s NHIF insurance policy and pay for them. With this, our members are able to take advantage of our country’s benevolence to those affected by cancer. We assist in other extra medical bills that are not covered by the policy.
** Housing
Our members who come from rural area are housed and fed at our shelter home in the Njathaini area, Kabete, Kiambu county. This enables them to seek specialized outpatient treatment Kenyatta National Hospital without the stress of commuting from their rural areas.
** Counselling & Psychosocial support
We hold Support group meetings twice every month, where we invite various speakers and spiritual leaders to encourage and counsel our members. We also pay for counseling sessions with a trained counselor.
**Empower
We empower our members and their close dependants by training them on different easy-to-do skills that can help them make money regardless of their current condition.
**Cancer Awareness activities
We embolden our members to be cancer awareness ambassadors at the grassroots. We also invite the youth and others groups for talks on cancer as the patients also pass to them cancer information that they learned the hard way through their disease journey.
Subsequently, we refer those willing to be screened and do follow-up on cases that require further intervention.
**Home visits
At Ladyhope, no patient Walks alone
We stand with our members at all times. When they are too weak or far to come to us, we visit them and stand with them even when they are bedridden.
**Adopt-A-patient
We connect patients to willing long-term supporters to walk with them and their children through the disease journey and beyond.
This way, the patient’s children get guidance, counseling, and mentorship from other parents and are supported to cope better with the disease burden and pain associated with caregiving at their tender age. The children also get educational support