Many toes in remote villages of western Kenya are free from jigger infestation thanks to the collaborative ongoing jigger disinfection clinic and home fumigation campaign.
Give Amore in collaboration with Cornerstone Church led jigger removal campaign helped remove and disinfect hundreds of feet in remote underprivileged villages in western Kenya.
The consolidated hands of volunteer resident nurses and community health workers alongside the Give Amore team helped ease the distressing pains of many in the communities via successful free jigger removal medical camps the end of August.
Jiggers are parasites associated with meager living standards and they are spread by fleas that are notorious in dusty earth floors/spaces. When they get in contact with humans, they tend to take advantage of the opportunity and enter their promising hosts through any wound cracks or areas with tender skin such as and mostly under the nails. Once inside the body they suck and feed from the human blood as well as lay and incubate their eggs using the body warmth. Later the eggs hatch and the unwelcome ‘guests’ keep multiplying.
Their removal process is agonizing both to the victim and observer and since the largest of the victim population are children, the shrieks and cries for help are undoubtedly emotionally draining.
The campaign is on course and on 9/28, another removal and disinfection clinic is scheduled to be held across the infected and affected villages. Keep tabs on this!
