Kakuma Medical Clinic offers a wide range of outpatient and inpatient services such as minor surgery, laboratory services, clinical consultation, ambulance services and a chemist within Kakuma town.
Due to the huge population in Kakuma, clinical and chemist services are on demand. The main challenge is the capacity to meet the medical costs. In Kakuma, the huge populations exert pressures on the social amenities, and this results to outbreaks of various diseases.
The facility with funding from KKCF is expanding to enable it offer services that are much sought after in the area including clinical consultations, chemist, and laboratory services to even more people.
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Gateway Diagnosis and Healthcare Ltd is a medical clinic that offers a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services including maternity, dental, radiology and ultrasound, pharmacy, and laboratory.
Due to the huge population in Kakuma, clinical and chemist services are on demand. The main challenge is the capacity to meet the medical costs. In Kakuma, the huge populations exert pressures on the social amenities, and this results to outbreaks of various diseases. To bridge this gap, the company offers a 24 hrs. clinical service and in addition to the bed capacity, they also have a pharmacy, laboratory , dental services, and outpatient services. The clinic is also shortlisted by several insurance companies as their medical service provider.
Through funding from KKCF, the clinic will provide additional services in Kakuma Kalobeyei area such as ambulances and avail dental laboratory, a service that is currently only accessible in Eldoret or Nairobi.
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Shujaa Customs Prints offers outdoor ads, graphic designs, branding and general printing in Kakuma. There is a growing need of advertising, printing, and distinctive designs in Kakuma/Kalobeyei from individuals and institutions.
Printing, branding and designs technologies have greatly improved with time as they offer fast, top-quality designs at reasonable costs. In Kakuma, with many international Ngo and upcoming SMEs, the print industry has potential as institutions/schools can produce high volume of labels quickly and easily. It also allows for increased customization over traditional label printers with set colors, cuts, and formats. Kakuma being a vibrant informal economy with more than 2,000 businesses, there is a need for businesses to increase their visibility, enhance sustainability, and reduce waste through on-demand printing and customized materials.
Through funding from KKCF, the company is acquiring modern equipment to enable the company to undertake specialized services such as garments and large format printing, that is currently not available in Kakuma.
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Nawountos Building and Construction Enterprises is a hardware company in Kakuma that sells building and construction material such as cement, paints, iron sheets, nails, timber, and metal.
The business is highly diversified with wide range on shelved products, craft ship, welding business and construction contracting of jobs with high level of galvanizing i.e. construction of rooms with steel roofs etc.
There is a growing demand for welders to serve the growing population in Kakuma and through the support of KKCF, the company intends to train apprentices from the host community and refugees providing the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the market demand.
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Blue Light Prince Academy offers education services from early childhood development learning to primary school level in the Kakuma Kalobeyei area.
The vastness of Kakuma and Kalobeyei, the distance between schools and refugee camps, and nomadic lifestyle of the host community has created a huge strain on the education sector in the region as children have to trek for long distances to access education. The establishment of Blue Light Academy in Kakuma town has addressed this constrain for 485 pupils within the Kakuma Kalobeyei region.
Through the KKCF funding, Blue Light Academy is establishing a boarding facility to allow pupils in the area experience a learning continuity away from camp activities and reduce the walking time spent by pupils from the nomadic host community in their pursuit of quality education.
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Tulu Tulu traders offers tailoring services in Kakuma town and specializes in school uniforms.
The population of the camp has been increasing to the current estimated population of 250, 000 people and 2,500 business. There has been constant outflows and inflows from various countries of goods and people. Tailoring takes 4% of the services offered in the area and business conducted by many women and refuges.
Through funding from KKCF, the business is looking to expand training to more tailors to meet the growing demand for tailoring services and to diversify the business to sell fabric on wholesale. The tailoring training and apprenticeship will see refugees and the host community being equipped with new skills. In addition, the sale of fabrics on wholesale will make the fabrics easily available in Kakuma and reduce the cost, time, and inconvenience of ordering from Nairobi.
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Justin Arike Abraham operates a tailoring shop specializing in African wear for both men and women in Kakuma refugee camp.
With the growing demand for professional tailoring services in the area, Justin through the support of KKCF is looking at avail fabric and tailoring accessories in Kakuma and relieve the community burden of ordering these items from Nairobi.
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