The Convenor of the PR Committee together with the CSR team donated a special fridge to the Nairobi Hospice on 26th November 2010. The hospice greatly appreciated the donation.

The CSR team attended an 'Alternative Rite of passage ceremony' in Kajiado on 2nd December 2010 in support of the Maasai girls whose education is sponsored by AKI.

The Secretariat presented a cheque donation of Kshs. 150,000/- to Dr. Sam Thenya of Nairobi Women Hospital for the Nairobi Women's Breast Health Programme on 3rd December 2010 at the AKI offices

The Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI) has donated KShs 100,000 to support the annual breast cancer awareness campaign in Kenya.

Mr Moses Kimani, a member of AKI Board of Directors and Managing Director of Pioneer Insurance Company presented the sponsorship cheque to the Executive Director of the Kenya Breast Health Program (KBHP) Ms Mary Onyango in December 2009.

Mr Kimani said AKI was fully committed to supporting projects in the health and other sectors of the economy and that the breast cancer awareness campaign was a key activity in their annual corporate social responsibility calendar. He further indicated that AKI is very keen in providing its membership with critical information and international best practice case studies to ensure they develop innovative health and medical products that meet consumer expectations.

In her short remarks after receiving the cheque, Mary who is a renowned champion against breast cancer and who has braved the pain caused by breast cancer regretted that local insurers are yet to develop new products to cover patients suffering from cancer and other terminal ailments.

She urged AKI to rally its members to consider providing covers for cancer patients saying that the process would be critical in reducing the burden the disease that continues to pose a challenge to communities.Ms Onyango indicated that every year, thousands of women succumb to breast cancer which is the number one killer cancer – accounting for 24 percent of all cancer cases worldwide. The Nairobi cancer registry alone, she said, recorded 10,484 cases between 2000 and 2006 – out of which breast cancer accounted for 20.9 of all women cancers closely followed by cervical cancer with a rate of 19.8 percent.

She however noted that KBHP was committed to ensuring all women in the country are not only armed with information pertaining to self and clinical examination but are also empowered with the critical knowledge on how to apply it.

The Executive Director said the funding would help in implementing countrywide awareness and education campaigns and clinical examinations via the mammovan – a van fitted with a mammogram.

The Executive Director also appealed to AKI and its members to continue to support the fundraising programs through the purchase of Zarina, a mascot developed in conjunction with Sanofi-Aventis. The mascot represents beauty and the wholesomeness of the woman and the need to protect and guard her.

"I appeal to you, your membership and friends to purchase Zarina to enable KBHP carryout the noble mission of ensuring all women are empowered with information that could save their lives and to keep the mammovan on the road for the benefit of marginalized women," Mary observed.