Médecins Sans Frontières - Souvenirs from Kibera: Sally | Webclip

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF197699

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/06/2017 12:00 AM

Country Kenya

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Nora Guicheney

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Duration 2m35s

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Additional Information / Shotlist Kibera 20 Years Sally Transcript

00:00 Text
Souvenirs from
KIBERA

00:08 Text
Sally and Siama MSF Health Promoters

00:10
I wasn't done any counseling, I was just told “Ukona unimwi” meaning that "You have AIDS".

00:12 Text
“Ukona unimwi”
=
"You have AIDS"

00:16
I went into a deep depression, that time I was living in Mombasa and I decided to through myself in the Indian Ocean.

00:22
I lost one baby when he was two months old and one was a 7 months old (pregnancy).

00:36
A staff in MSF I think she was told about me by some other staff who already knew my story and said: Can you be sharing this all the time?

00:46
Volunteering we started in 2003 when MSF employed us it was 2005. I remember that there was stigma even from fellow staff in the clinic. Sometimes they were hiding the key of the toilet so…you could really… If you really wanted to (use the toilet) then you had to wait at the door, when someone came out you could rush in, but otherwise not.

01:08
We were speaking out so much with Siama that other staff shared (their story)
saying ” You are not alone, I am also here”. And that gave us strength and hope.
From there we started getting support from staff also.

01:23
They thought that maybe I needed some skills. So that's when they took me for the training that was called “treatment literacy”. It was medics training (a training given by doctors) and it was so complex with the PowerPoint presentations. So they said: “No, this thing has to be done with peers, with fellow patients".

01:42
(SOUND IN:) "I was employed by MSF and I was getting my treatment in Mbagathi (DISTRICT HOSPITAL)"

01:45
I liked the way that Siama could explain the multiplication of the virus. She called the participants and then she would just give practical examples and it worked very well.

01:56
These certificates I have been able to show them to other facilities and they allowed me to even give health talks to their patients. They would easily refer patients to me. I have used them before and they have been very helpful.

02:13
After 20 years MSF has handed over the project.

02:19
Sally continues to give health talks.

02:25
She has expanded from leading HIV support groups to cancer support groups.

02:30 Text
Discover more stories from Kibera
www.msf.org/Kenya/Kibera

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Souvenirs from Kibera: Sally | Webclip | English

Souvenirs from Kibera: Sally | Webclip | English