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Connecting communities to comprehensive, dignified health care.
Health Systems Integration
Health is both a fundamental human right and a critical driver of sustainable development. When communities lack access to quality health information, services, and support — particularly around sexual and reproductive health — the consequences reverberate across every other development domain: education attainment falls, economic productivity declines, gender inequality deepens, and communities become more vulnerable to crisis.
Daraja Letu Foundation's Health Systems Integration programme recognises this reality and works to strengthen the connections between communities and health systems, ensuring that the most marginalised — girls, young women, Persons with Disabilities, and residents of informal settlements and rural areas — can access the health information and services they need to thrive.
Empowering girls and young women to lead, govern, and build peace
Our Approach to Health Integration
We do not operate stand-alone health clinics or serve as a direct health service provider. Instead, Daraja Letu's power lies in bridging the gap between communities and existing health systems — strengthening health literacy, building community health advocacy capacity, and facilitating cross-sector partnerships that expand access and improve outcomes.
Our health integration work is delivered through partnerships and cross-sector collaboration, recognising that fragmented approaches to health service delivery consistently fail marginalised communities. By linking SRHR, WASH, and broader well-being outcomes within a unified framework, we ensure that communities receive holistic support that reflects the interconnected nature of health.
SRHR as a Foundation for Development
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) are central to our health work. In the communities where we operate — including Homa Bay, Kisumu, and Nairobi's Kabiria informal settlement — inadequate SRHR knowledge and services contribute to high rates of teenage pregnancy, maternal mortality, gender-based violence, and school dropout. Addressing these issues is not peripheral to our mission — it is fundamental to it. Our SRHR programming provides adolescent girls and boys with accurate, age-appropriate information about reproductive health, rights, and available services. We work to dismantle the stigma, shame, and misinformation that prevent young people from accessing the health support they need, and to build the confidence and agency they require to make informed decisions about their bodies and futures.
Linking Health to Peace and Security
Daraja Letu Foundation uniquely connects the health agenda to the Women, Peace and Security framework. We understand that health outcomes — particularly for women and girls — are profoundly shaped by peace and security conditions. Conflict disrupts health services, increases rates of gender-based violence, and denies women and girls access to reproductive health care. By integrating health programming with our peace and security work, we address root causes rather than symptoms.
Community Health Partnerships
Through our network of grassroots community groups, trained mentors, and partner organisations, Daraja Letu facilitates community-level health awareness campaigns, health dialogues, and linkages to formal health services. We work to ensure that community health knowledge is accurate, culturally appropriate, and actionable — and that community members are equipped to advocate for better health service delivery in their own localities. We are actively seeking partnerships with health sector actors — government health departments, international health organisations, and social enterprises — to scale our health integration model and deepen our impact across Kenya and beyond.
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