Communities Understand their Own Abilities and Limitations on First Aid

In July 2013, we received First AID Africa’s second team that composed of Magee, Emma and Sean who were dedicatedly able to train over 30 community members on the most valued life skills through the set arrangements by Ndhiwa Maarifa Centre (ALIN) for the sake of our people.

Just to jog your mind as our reader, it would be good for you too to first have a clue of what we are talking about here. First aid is the initial assistance or treatment given to a person who is injured or suddenly taken ill and the person who provides this help is a first aider (he MUST be skilled).

Being a first aider is not actually a game of gamble, it is a matter of life and death, both yours and that of the casualty; whereby if you mess up at any point of time, both lives maybe jeopardized. Having analyzed the value of these skills, we as ALIN find it very necessary for the communities we are serving since accidents and health conditions are crosscutting issues that do occur at a time when we less expect yet requires an immediate attention.

From an observation analysis, most the communities dwell kilometers away from medical facilities access yet they fall prey to most risks of possible snake bites, chokes, drown, burns, cuts, heart attacks, broken limbs amongst other critical occurrences. With the skills imparted on our people for the past 2 years of partnership, we would like to thanks to the entire First Aid Africa team for such commitments and dedication in serving the people of Africa.