Gladys Makena

NAME:                   Gladys Makena                  

CONSTITUENCY:     Kinoru

DATE:                    13^th November, 2013

1. As discordant couples’ training from our support group we learnt from NCCK facilitators that proper way of using both condoms of male and female in a safe way to protect the other partner but before we used to put male condom and female condom together. Nowadays, we decide to use one only not both at same time before the training came for safer sex.
2. We were taught to disclose to other people and become good to our neighbours and told them our status and most of them went to be tested because some could not think we were positive living couple.
3. NCCK taught how we can eat wild vegetables because they are not expensive e.g. Thaa – terere, manage, arrowroot leaves and to avoid selling eggs to buy loaves of breads. We learnt eggs are more nutritional than breads.
4. We were taught we must take lots of clean water and clean fruits and vegetables for healthy living. Also to avoid buying medicines from the vendors but only to report to the CCC which is near us for  better diagnosis by the medical officer.
5. We teach our church members with information we got from the NCCK training about knowing their status early about HIV. And also they can get pregnant and give birth to a negative child through going first to CCC experts for more information.
6. After training from NCCK we took our neuclear family to be tested to a near dispensary and now are happy that all of our household members knows their status todate.

Finally we thank NCCK for their training and we hope they will come with more lessons especially legal rights and memory book writing in future.