ORGANIZATION PROFILE
FARAJA CANCER SUPPORT TRUST
Giving, HELP,HOPE, LIFE
Address:
Faraja Cancer Support Trust
P. O. Box
Nairobi
Email: info@farajacancersupport.org
Website: www.farajacancersupport.org
Contact Person: Shaira Adamali, Managing Trustee
Email: shaira@farajacancersupport.org
Faraja Cancer Support- Organization Profile- 2012
Background
The Faraja Cancer Support Trust was founded in 2010 with the aim of providing emotional,
practical and healing support to anyone affected by cancer. Faraja offers cancer patients and
their carers information, advice on nutrition, including counselling and complementary therapies
such as Massage, Reiki, Body Talk, Yoga, Music and Dance in order to make their cancer
journey a little more manageable. Faraja works alongside several institutions and hospitals that
offer conventional cancer treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. It aims to
take our patients beyond medical treatment through offering them a holistic approach to coping
with the challenges of cancer. Since its inception over 1,500 patients have been able to access
Faraja services. All the services that are provided by Faraja are for free.
You can read more about what Faraja does, including testimonials from patients, by going to the
Faraja web site www.farajacancersupport.org
Our Strategic Niche
Our main driving force is finding comfort by providing a safe haven for patients and their carers
through emotional, practical and healing support. We offer information, advice, counseling and
complementary therapies in order to make their cancer journey a little more manageable.
Our Projects
1. Provision of complementary therapies to cancer patients and their care givers. Our
complementary therapies include Counseling, Body Massage, Head Massage, Movement,
Yoga, Dance, Lymphatic Drainage, Nutrition, Physiotherapy, Meditation, Reflexology,
Reiki, Stress Relief, Body Talk, Homeopathy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and
Transformational Breathing, Art Therapy.
2. Monthly support group meetings for Breast cancer, Cervical cancer and Prostate cancer
support group with an average attendance of 30 patients per meeting.
3. Craft for cure project at Kenyatta National Hospital. This is a joint project between Faraja
and AIESEC University of Nairobi Chapter. It involves doing craft and art with the
children in oncology ward every Friday afternoon.
Library/ Resource Centre with over 700 books and over 100 brochures on specific
cancers including the side effects of treatment.
5. Faraja has helped cover treatment costs for 25 patients at an estimated cost of Kshs 3
million.
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2014- 2015 Plans
1. To launch a mobile unit (Big Pink Bus) to promote early detection of cancer in rural
areas. Focus on areas outside Nairobi. A number of individuals are keen on supporting
this initiative and have raised over to Shs3m for this with more expected in the course of
the year.
2. To build an Endowment Fund to a level that enables us to use its income for supporting
medical costs of a larger number of patients than we have currently been able to.
3. To establish new Faraja centre’s e.g. at Kenyatta National Hospital (2014), Kisumu
(2015) and Mombasa (2016).
4. We are also keen on doing more for the children at KNH and are in discussions on
extending the craft for cure project to include other activities such as exercise and
renovating the children’s wards.
Organizational and Collaborative Structure
Faraja has continues to work with individuals, companies, foundations and Trusts towards giving
hope, life and a reason for tomorrow to cancer patients. We have a dedicated team of
professionals who have worked together towards the achievement of Faraja Goals and
objectives. Our organizational model is as below:
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Board of Trustees
Shaira Adamali: Shaira has worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tanzania and Kenya for
31 years, with over 10 years as a partner heading the PwC regional tax practice in Africa.
Manu Chandaria: Manu is engaged in work within the framework of a joint Indian family with
business interests in more than seventy countries. He sits as Chairman on a number of boards in
the manufacturing, insurance and higher education sectors in East Africa. He is a leading
industrialist and a Philanthropist in Kenya.
Phoebe Gitau: Phoebe has a long career in Banking and has also worked with a number of
charitable organizations. She has a passion for reaching out to the disadvantaged. She is a
member of the Rotary Club of Karura in Nairobi and is a Past President of the Club.
Andrew Hollas: Andrew is a retired Regional Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is
also Chairman of Hillcrest Investment, Mater Hospital Pension Fund, and a Director of KK
Security.
Andrew Ndegwa: Andrew is an executive director of First Chartered Securities Limited (FCS),
a Nairobi based investment holding company, as well as a non-executive board member of a
number of public and private companies.
Sonal Sejpal: Sonal is a Partner with Anjarwalla & Khanna Advocates, Nairobi. Sonal is also
involved with other charities such as the Nairobi Greenline.
Implementing Team
Phillip Odiyo: Patient Support Manager and Volunteer Coordinator. Phillip offers
psychological support, and counseling. He has been working with Faraja since 2011, initially as
a volunteer. He is a psycho-oncologist with over 7years experience in working with cancer
patients in Kenya
Arwa Kapacee: Administrative Assistant | Patient Services Support : Arwa joined Faraja in
January 2012 and handles patients issues and inquiries that may arise. She is a psychologist by
profession with a BA (Psychology) from USIU, Nairobi.
Nereah Amisi: Fundraising Manager who recently joined Faraja is a sociologist by profession
with over five years experience in Grant writing. She holds a BA in Sociology from Moi
University and is a member of Association of Fundraising Professionals (Kenya Chapter).
Financial Management
Faraja has a robust system for management of finances and grants in the organization. It maintains
separate accounts for each of its projects and prepares audited reports for the organization every
year with a detailed breakdown of each expense. The signatories to the accounts are from the Board
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of Trustees who approve, authorize and sign expenditure requests and cheques before money is
drawn on any bank account. We have a dedicated team of two external professional accountants
who maintain our financial records and books of accounts, conduct regular internal audits and
prepare financial records and budgets in line with International Financial Reporting Standards.
Organization capacity and sustainability
Faraja is a Trust with an able body of Trustees who are reknown professionals in their field. The
Trustees meet at least 4 times in year. This ensures a sound organizational management system
with apt checks and balances to ensure that the organization’s finances and resources are managed
in accordance with internationally recognized accounting and grant management standards. We
also have three dedicated staff who work fulltime towards realization of organization’s goals and
objectives and a team of over 30 volunteer therapists who donate between one and four hours a
week to attend to patients and their families visiting the centre. In addition to this, we have about
20 volunteers who help with the day to day administrative and patient support services. This
structure has enabled us deliver quality and highly sustainable services to over 1500 with plans to
roll out a similar model in the centres we plan to establish across Kenya. We raise most of our
money through events, and regular giving programmes with well established relationships with
individual donors and dedicated team of volunteers who help us execute our yearly budget to cater
for the ever increasing number of patients.
Planning, monitoring and evaluation
Regular monitoring and evaluation of our projects is done with success stories documented and
shared with our supporters and the general public. These are shared through our website, blog,
social media pages and at the centre by our volunteers and staff. We have in place a donor care
model that ensures we continue to attract and maintain donor relationships in our regular giving
programme.
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References
1. Sanda Ojiambo
Head of Corporate Responsibility
Safaricom Foundation Limited
P.O.Box 66827-00800
Tel: +254 722 004355/ 722 303756
Nairobi
2. Chiman Shah
Administrator
Cancer Care Kenya
Tel: +254-20-3740132 / 153 / 227
Cell: +254-727-844-882/ 737-844-882
Email: info@cancercarekenya.com
Nairobi
3. Ann Frampton
Action For Charity
Newcourt House
New Street, Lymington,
Hampshire, SO41 9BQ
United Kingdom
Tel: 01590 677854
4. Ann Perez
ICEA LION Center,
Riverside Park,
Chiromo Road, Westlands
PO Box 46143-00100
Nairobi
Tel: +254 719 071000
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