Forty-three community members around the Ndhiwa Maarifa (knowledge) Centre are receiving free training on first aid.

Through a partnership between First Aid Africa (FFA) and the Ndhiwa Maarifa Centre, the 43 locals will receive two hours training every Wednesday for four weeks and will be issues with an internationally recognized certificate.

The training touches on very practical situations that require immediate first aid skills like snake bites, small and deep cuts, shocks, burns, unconscious causalities etc. They are also issued with first aid kits.

From research, statistics indicate that every year, millions of infections and deaths could be avoided with just a little medicinal knowledge and equipment.

In Africa, the need for first aid is indisputable. Access to basic first aid training remains highly inaccessible to many. FFA aims at providing and encouraging access to, first aid equipment and education on first aid.

First Aid Africa is a humanitarian organisation working primarily in East-Africa to improve access to education in First Aid amongst the wider population. Sam Abrahams established it in 2007 with the goal to sustainably reduce the high levels of morbidity and mortality in East Africa, especially those that are caused by easily treatable conditions or injuries, through educating local people in first aid.

The organization’s mission is to arm as many people as possible with the knowledge, skills and equipment to respond in an emergency, and ultimately, save or improve a patient's quality of life.

In Kenya today, a similar training would cost at least Kshs.5,000 (US$ 62.5).

Ndhiwa Maarifa Centre in collaboration with FFA aspires to ensure that the current trainees proceed and train more people both at the centre and in various schools by coming up with a first aid team at the centre.
Fore more on the training visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfZXuZ-auU and picasaweb.google.com/ndhiwamaarifa/FirstAidAfrica