TKP’s amazing Health Team in Kilgoris works tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of all of our students. We want you to meet them and hear from them directly about how your support of TKP helps. Please enjoy meeting Amos and Belvin!
Amos Leperes, TKP's Student Health Officer is a star of TKP and stewards your generous gifts to benefit the health and well-being of TKP's entire student population. We recently did a What's App interview with Amos where he shared a little bit about his job and his concerns right now.
Amos Leperes, TKP’s Student Health Officer
Q: First tell us your favorite thing about being a Student Health Officer?
A: My favorite thing as the Student Health Officer is to see young children growing nutritionally healthy and seeing them have access to health care. We have been able to diagnose several children with life-threatening diseases or illnesses at early stages. Then they received treatment and recovered. I also love seeing them get clean water at school.
Q: How are you feeling about COVID-19 and it's impact on TKP students?
A: Vulnerable kids are at risk of malnutrition during this time. TKP was able to help several with our grocery packages. But I am a little worried because all of the children are missing the services that we usually give them in school. With good hygiene and hand washing techniques that we have taught them I'm hopeful they will share with their families and follow them at home.
Q: How are you and your family doing?
A: We are doing well and are healthy. My family is practicing hand washing, cough hygiene (coughing into elbow), keeping distance and avoiding social gatherings during this trying time.
Thank you Amos for all you do for TKP's students and the entire community.
We’re excited to share this short interview with our Assistant Student Health Officer, Belvin Potishoi. Belvin joined the TKP team after finishing her schooling in 2019. She’s a joy to be around and a compassionate health care professional! We’re fortunate to have her as part of our team.
Belvin Potishoi, TKP’s Assistant Student Health Officer
Q: First, can you share why you chose to go into the medical field?
A: What really inspired me was that in my community there was a need for health care workers. Sick people had travel for a long distance for medication. This was a burden on my heart because they were not only sick, but most of them were not able to afford transportation fares so they had to walk long distances to a clinic or doctor. Therefore, I went into a medical field and pursued clinical medicine to help bridge the gap in my community.
Q: What worries you about the COVID-19 pandemic?
A: COVID-19 could bring adverse effects academically and health wise to a number of TKP students. Most of their parents are casual workers and are not able to work due to the pandemic, others are not employed at all. This is really going to prevent them from providing their families with basic needs. I worry they won’t have access to food and the health of the kids will deteriorate since they will be lacking some nutrients in their bodies. I also worry students will be left behind academically. Many parents are illiterate and can’t access learning programmes offered on television.
Q: What is your favorite part about working for TKP?
A: I love helping the community so much. I really feel honored working with TKP because it really works for the Masai community to help improve and make it a better place. It provides education and health programme for the kids which are key in changing a community, because kids are the future of a community.
Big thanks to Belvin and Amos for all you do for TKP students and their families! We are *this close* to meeting our goal of $20,000 to ensure that our health team has the resources to serve our students when they come back. Will you join us today in honor of Belvin, Amos, and the incredible work they do? www.kilgoris.org/donate