Events 2010
January 2010
TICAH Interactive Community Calendar is distributed
TICAH’s Healthy People, Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities project published its first teaching calendar. Designed with photographs and artwork from the communities where we work, each month of the calendar has a theme, discussion group questions, and health tips. The days of the months are marked with dates in contemporary Kenyan political, cultural, sports, arts, and community history. To be used in TICAH’s community outreach programs, the calendar was first distributed to support group facilitators. TICAH USA Board Chairman Sylver Quevedo was with us in Nairobi for one of these celebrations.
February 2010
TICAH Meets the Press
TICAH held a sensitization meeting with members of Kenyan press to share the process we use in our Mwili Yangu, Chaguo Langu (“My Body, My Choice”) and to encourage them to provide informed coverage of TICAH’s February events aimed to stimulate attention to the sexual choices we make.
River Walk at National Museums of Kenya
Paved paths, part of TICAH’s River Walk at the National Museums of Kenya, continue to be built. Sculptors and artists Jackson Wanjau, Anthony Wanjau, and David Mwaniki of Kuona Trust, begin carving art pieces from the three felled gum trees on the property.
Valentine's Day
TICAH marked this year's Valentine's Day with several community and media events related to our sexuality project, the issues it raises for young Kenyans. These included an event in Kibera hosted with Carolina for Kibera, street theatre, song and dance, and the lively distribution of TICAH’s “My Body, My Choice” stickers through a question and answer exchange with community members.
Book Launch
TICAH launched our latest book, “We Are Talking About Sex/ Tunasungumza Kukusa Ngono,” a beautifully illustrated guide with fourteen modules and set of facilitation tools for use in peer-led support groups. At the launch, Kactus Africa, a youth group from Korogocho, had their first public performance of the song/theatre piece entitled Mwili Yangu, Chaguo Langu (“My Body, My Choice”).
African Sexuality Conference
Jade Maina and Trish Kinoti of TICAH attended the 4th African Sexuality Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Jade made a presentation on TICAH’s sexuality projects.
March 2010
International Women's Day
All TICAH staff attended the Pad Raising concert to honor International Women's Day at the French Cultural Centre.
TICAH and Global Education Fund Launch
TICAH co-hosted the Global Education Fund’s first public event at our Medicine Shield Garden at the National Museum of Kenya. GEF provides scholarships to support secondary school expenses for promising young women and men. TICAH exhibited some of our body maps and distributed many of our books, calendars, and posters.
April 2010
“Valuing Traditional Medicine” Fieldwork
Following from one year’s research on the policy and regulatory frameworks of traditional and herbal medicine in the context of diverse health systems and cultures, and a thorough assessment of existing data on health expenditure to see how and when herbal medicine is being used in African, Asian, and other households, TICAH’s multi-disciplinary fieldwork team began to work in urban (Viwandani) and rural (Siaya) Kenyan sites to refine research methodologies and begin our data collection. TICAH is partnering with ACE in Siaya to carry out these studies, the first of their kind.