In Kenya’s hardest-hit communities, dignity is stolen by disease, hunger, and neglect. OFEAS battles this daily—arming mothers with prenatal care, shielding children from malaria, and tearing down HIV stigma. We deploy mobile clinics to remote villages, deliver life-saving nutrition, and demand healthcare for the disabled. Because no child should die from dirty water. No woman should birth without care. No person is “hopeless.

Interventions
 Water, sanitation and hygiene
 Food and nutrition
 Policy advocacy on non-communicable diseases
 Sexual reproductive health rights
 Maternal health & child survival
 HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and referral for care and treatment
 Medical referrals for children with disabilities
 Mobile clinics

A Healthy Society Under Siege: OFEAS’ Battle Against HIV, TB & The Silent Epidemics

The dream of a healthy, productive society is crumbling at the edges in Kenya’s most marginalized communities. Here, HIV still stalks families like a shadow, tuberculosis (TB) spreads through cramped homes, and mothers watch helplessly as malaria steals their children’s breath. These are not just diseases—they are systemic crises, woven into the fabric of poverty, poor sanitation, and broken healthcare.

OFEAS confronts this triple threat of disease, deprivation, and discrimination daily. In regions where:

• HIV infection rates remain stubbornly high, fueled by stigma and lack of testing

• TB silently ravages malnourished bodies in poorly ventilated homes

• Simple mosquito bites become death sentences for children without nets

• Disabled children are denied medical care as “hopeless cases”

This is the brutal reality we fight against.

Why Our Health Battle Matters

Every OFEAS intervention tackles the deadly intersection of disease and deprivation:

1. The HIV/TB Timebomb

• HIV weakens immune systems, making TB 20x more lethal

• Mobile clinics provide ARVs and TB meds to remote villages

• We destroy myths that “HIV is witchcraft” through community education

2. Malaria & Malnutrition: A Vicious Cycle

• Hungry children succumb faster to malaria

• Our nutrition programs + mosquito nets cut child deaths by 40%

3. Disability = Death Sentence? Not Anymore

• Medical referrals for disabled children—often denied care as “wasted effort”

• Wheelchairs, surgeries, and therapies to reclaim futures

Our Weapons in This Fight

⚕️ Mobile Clinics – Bringing ARVs, TB tests, and prenatal care to doorsteps
💧 Water Filters & Hygiene Kits – Stopping cholera where it starts
🍎 Nutrition Gardens – Fighting disease with fortified foods
📢 Grandmothers as Health Ambassadors – Trusted elders breaking HIV taboos

The Odds Are Against Us—But So Are We.

in these fields accordingly.

OFEAS: Championing Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods

OFEAS stands as a beacon of hope in Kenya’s fight against hunger and poverty. As a grassroots NGO, we go beyond emergency food aid to address the systemic roots of food insecurity. Our work empowers communities to reclaim their right to nourishment and economic dignity through sustainable agriculture, fair market access, and livelihood development.

The Harsh Reality of Hunger in Our Communities

Climate Chaos Crushes Harvests

The once-reliable rhythms of nature have turned against farming families. Prolonged droughts wither crops in the field, while unexpected floods wash away entire seasons of labor. In Homa Bay County, over 60% of households report having less than two weeks’ worth of food reserves. Children are dropping out of school to search for wild fruits and edible roots as traditional food sources disappear.

The Vicious Cycle of Poverty

Without land titles or collateral, marginalized families cannot access credit to invest in their futures. Women particularly bear the brunt, often forced to choose between feeding their children today or planting seeds for tomorrow. The elderly watch helplessly as their ancestral farming knowledge becomes useless against changing weather patterns they don’t recognize.

Broken Markets Exploit the Vulnerable

Local farmers suffer under the tyranny of middlemen who dictate crushing prices. A farmer might receive just 30 shillings for a kilo of maize that sells for 200 shillings in urban markets. Meanwhile, loan sharks circle desperate families, trapping them in endless debt cycles with exorbitant interest rates that swallow entire harvests.

OFEAS’s Holistic Approach to Food Sovereignty

Revolutionizing Small-Scale Agriculture

We train farmers in climate-smart techniques, introducing drought-resistant crops and water conservation methods. Our agricultural extension workers provide hands-on guidance in soil regeneration, helping restore degraded farmland to productivity. Demonstration plots showcase how diversified crops can provide both nutrition and income security.

Creating Fair Economic Pathways

OFEAS establishes farmer cooperatives that pool resources and bargaining power. We connect producers directly with ethical buyers, cutting out exploitative middlemen. Village savings and loan associations offer fair credit alternatives, while our micro-enterprise programs help families develop supplementary income streams.

Protecting the Most Vulnerable

Our nutrition programs target at-risk groups: HIV-positive individuals needing fortified foods, pregnant women requiring special diets, and malnourished children needing therapeutic feeding. School feeding programs keep students nourished while teaching sustainable farming through school gardens.

A Call to Join Our Movement

The battle against hunger demands more than charity—it requires systemic change. OFEAS invites partners and supporters to help us scale these proven solutions. Together, we can build communities where no child goes to bed hungry, where farmers receive fair value for their labor, and where climate resilience replaces desperate survival strategies.

Why This Approach Matters

Our work recognizes that true food security comes not from handouts, but from empowering communities to control their food systems. By addressing the interconnected challenges of climate change, economic injustice, and agricultural knowledge gaps, OFEAS helps build lasting solutions that honor human dignity while protecting the environment.

Every seed planted, every skill taught, and every fair market connection made represents a step toward food sovereignty. This is the foundation upon which all other development—education, health, and economic growth—can truly flourish.

OFEAS: Protecting and Empowering Kenya’s Forgotten Elders

Our program offers a range of activities, including social, health, educational, financial, and legal activities, designed to address the needs of the elderly in Kenya. We believe that every elderly person deserves a fulfilling life, and we are committed to making this a reality.

Our Commitment to the Elderly

FEAS stands with Kenya’s elderly population – society’s most vulnerable yet most overlooked members. In a nation where traditional family structures are crumbling under economic pressures, we serve as the last line of defense for grandparents abandoned to face poverty, illness, and violence alone.

The Plight of Our Elders

Physical and Medical Neglect

Many elderly in rural communities suffer from untreated chronic conditions – arthritis, diabetes, and hypertension – with no access to basic healthcare. Painful mobility issues go unaddressed, forcing some to crawl for water or medicine. Those living with HIV/AIDS face particular stigma, often denied treatment as “too old to matter.”

Economic Abandonment

Pension systems fail to reach most rural elders, leaving them destitute. Many are forced to continue backbreaking farm work into their 80s. Worse, some families confiscate elders’ land titles, evicting them from ancestral homes to claim property.

Violence and Witchcraft Accusations

At night, armed gangs specifically target elderly households knowing they can’t fight back. Tragically, some communities blame elders for misfortunes – drought, disease, or death – leading to brutal attacks and banishments.

OFEAS’s Comprehensive Elder Care Program

Medical Intervention and Mobile Clinics

Our specialized geriatric units travel village-to-village providing free screenings, pain management, and HIV treatment. We train community health workers in elder care basics and establish medicine deposit points in remote areas.

Economic Empowerment Initiatives

We help elders secure legal land rights and create senior cooperatives for collective farming. Our micro-grant program funds small businesses suited for seniors – beekeeping, basket weaving, or poultry keeping – restoring both income and dignity.

Safety and Social Protection

OFEAS builds elder-safe housing with grab bars and emergency alarms. We organize village watch groups to protect isolated seniors and mediate family disputes over property rights. Our awareness campaigns combat harmful stereotypes about aging.

Intergenerational Healing Programs

We pair orphans with surrogate grandparents, creating new family bonds. School children visit elders to record oral histories, preserving wisdom while fostering respect across generations.

A Call to Honor Our Elders

These programs represent more than charity – they’re about restoring the sacred social contract that values every life stage. OFEAS invites all Kenyans to join our movement to ensure no elder spends their final years in hunger, pain, or fear.

Why This Matters

Elders are living libraries of traditional knowledge, the glue of communities, and deserving of dignity. By protecting them, we preserve our cultural heritage while modeling the kind of compassionate society we all hope to grow old in. Their wellbeing is the truest measure of our nation’s humanity.

Every medical visit, every secured land title, every protected night’s sleep represents our collective promise: that in Kenya, growing old will never mean being left behind.

OFEAS Declares War on Climate Injustice: Protecting Vulnerable Communities from Environmental Collapse”

At OFEAS, we recognize climate change as the defining crisis of our time—a relentless force displacing families, eroding livelihoods, and fueling human suffering across Kenya. From the shrinking shores of Lake Victoria to the drought-ravaged farmlands, climate disasters hit the poorest hardest, pushing communities toward unthinkable choices: selling daughters for fish, burning forests for charcoal, or watching children starve.

This is not just an environmental issue—it’s a fight for survival.

We combat climate injustice through:
✔ Eco-restoration – Replanting mangroves, reviving fisheries, and protecting wetlands
✔ Clean energy – Replacing charcoal with solar stoves to save forests and lives
✔ Climate-smart farming – Drought-resistant crops to break cycles of hunger
✔ Trafficking prevention – Creating alternatives to “sex-for-fish” exploitation

The time to act is now. Join us as we defend Kenya’s most vulnerable from the cascading horrors of climate breakdown.

#ClimateJusticeNow #OFEASFightsBack

Lake Victoria’s Silent Death – And the Human Catastrophe It Unleashed

The waters of Lake Victoria, once teeming with life, now whisper a dirge for what has been lost. Climate change has strangled this mighty freshwater ecosystem—rising temperatures have turned its shallows into tepid baths, choking oxygen from the depths. Unpredictable rains now bring either biblical floods that wash away entire villages, or cruel droughts that bake the cracked mud where waves once danced.

The lake’s death began invisibly—a few less fish in the nets each season, the water growing warmer, the algal blooms spreading like green scars across its surface. Then came the collapse: Nile perch stocks plummeted by 80%, tilapia vanished from local markets, and the once-vibrant fishing communities watched their livelihoods rot on the shores.

But the true horror lies in what followed. As the fish died, so too did the social contract that held these communities together. The lake’s ecological apocalypse birthed a human catastrophe—a cascading nightmare where climate disaster, sexual violence, disease, and environmental plunder feed upon each other in an ever-tightening spiral of suffering.

This is no longer just an environmental crisis. It is a syndemic—a collision of multiple epidemics, each amplifying the others:

1. The Fish Collapse That Ignited a Nightmare
   • Starving fishermennow traffic children for “sex-for-fish” trades—girls as young as 12 abused for a day’s catch.
   • HIV surgesas transactional sex spreads the virus through traumatized lakeside communities.
   • Charcoal gangsclear forests for fuel, turning wetlands into wastelands. Sand miners strip riverbeds bare, drowning habitats in silt.
2. The Domino Effect of Ruin
   • Trafficking & Trauma: Orphans of AIDS and poverty are sold to labor camps or brothels.
   • Elderly left defenselessas thugs raid homes, knowing climate-starved families can’t fight back.
   • Wildlife wiped out—hippos, birds, and fish suffocate in algae-choked waters.
3. OFEAS’s Fight for Survival
   We refuse to let Lake Victoria’s communities become climate casualties. Our mission:

• Rescue girlsfrom exploitation with safe schools and trauma care.
• Restore fish stocksthrough sustainable aquaculture and wetland revival.
• Block charcoal syndicateswith clean-energy alternatives for families.
• Demand justicefor sand-mining victims and abused elders.

This is not just conservation—it’s a war for humanity.

“The lake took our fish, then our daughters. Now it’s taking our souls.”
—Fisherman, Mbita Point