META (FACEBOOK) TRAINING

Ethel Foundation for the Aged recently conducted a needs assessment and fact-finding exercise in Baringo County to better understand the challenges facing older persons in the region. Through community dialogue with elders, local leaders, and stakeholders, the meeting highlighted pressing issues including food insecurity, limited access to healthcare, economic vulnerability, and social isolation. The insights gathered are now informing Ethel Foundation’s ongoing deliberations on how it can work alongside communities and partners to strengthen support systems, promote dignity, and improve the quality of life for older persons in Baringo and across Kenya.

Ethel Foundation for the Aged (EFA) supports older persons to strengthen economic independence, food security and resilience through poultry farming, basket weaving, financial literacy, entrepreneurship and community-based livelihood groups. Through initiatives such as SLOP/SLOPAK and Inua Wazee, EFA promotes productive participation and dignified ageing.

Having come from a background of poverty, Father Colonel Omondi had always wanted to alleviate suffering. He went on to become a priest as soon as he was done with his high school education. It is while working with redemptive missionaries under Conference of Redemptorists in Africa and Madagascar at the Iruma Catholic church in…