Enjoy this recap from our Executive Director Matt and Development Manager Andy detailing our most recent project in Lodwar, Kenya! 60-70% of Lodwar's inhabitants are illiterate; this makes our project even more important! We partnered with Africare to provide their staff with the video capabilities necessary to produce and disseminate important content. Africare now has increased capacity through training and video equipment to reach disadvantaged people with best practices and health information.

OMPT remains committed to using our expertise in disease-prevention to save lives in underprivileged regions of the world, and we would love your support in doing so.

In early March 2020, OMPT worked with Africare in the town of Lodwar, Kenya. Here are some photos from the four-day Video Education Workshop!

Despite the area’s unique ecology and scientific value, the Turkana district is the poorest of Kenya’s 47 counties. In fact, 88% of the county’s population lives below the international poverty level.

Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) can be broadly defined as the attempt to change a population’s behavior by influencing its knowledge, attitudes, and social norms via a singular or variety of communication techniques. This article explores the history of SBCC and discusses OMPT’s implementation of proven SBCC methodology.

After decades of time and an enormous amount of money, we as a developing world have made a great deal of progress in helping the least developed countries get ahead.

The nonprofit world is one of many acronyms, but “WASH” is one you’ll hear about often at OMPT. What does it mean, and why does it matter? Today, billions of people around the world still lack access to safe water, sanitation, and handwashing facilities. 

"Are you Matthew York?" 

Just as I’m exiting the jetway, an immigration official at the Newark Airport in New Jersey approaches me.

“Yes...how did you know?”

“That’s my job,” he says, kindly. “Please follow me.”

Even though a revolution has occurred in Sudan, and their totalitarian leader has been overthrown, there is still civil unrest and the displacement of people going on throughout the country. This is especially evident when looking at the region of Darfur in western Sudan.