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Due to the devastating impact of Coronavirus charities and community projects are having to adapt the way that they operate in order to continue to work for their beneficiaries.
At Eating Stones Fund we have made significant changes to the way we work. Our only fulltime member of staff has left his role, in order to protect our funds for our projects in Kenya and also (as a registered nurse) in order to join the fight against the Coronavirus here in the UK.
As the number of recorded cases of COVID-19 begins to grow in Kenya, we believe that the most vulnerable in society need to be able to access health services more than ever.
Our team in Kenya continues to register the most marginalised people for NHIF (the Kenyan national health insurance programme) so if the worst were to happen, they would have somewhere to turn.
It costs only £3.80 per month, to register an entire household for comprehensive healthcare and we're asking all our supporters for small donation to provide this protection and keep our projects running.
A one-off £12 donation is enough to provide comprehensive healthcare for a family for 3 months.
£45 would cover the same household for an entire year, providing the reassurance and security that parents desperately want to be able to provide for their families.
At Eating Stones we will not lose focus of the goal of Universal Health Coverage.
Protecting people from the financial consequences of paying for health services out of their own pockets reduces the risk that people will be pushed into poverty because unexpected illness requires them to use up their life savings, sell assets, or borrow destroying their futures and often those of their children.