Our Partners
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide health information in order to create HIV/AIDS awareness; to build the capacity of the community to be able to run home-based care and give counseling.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide care and support to orphans; has also been involved in awareness creation on HIV/AIDS through community workshops and using public forums such as chief's 'barazas'.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Empower youth on positive lifestyle skills through capacity building, and formation of structures for skills development. The group uses access to information as a strategy for youth outreach, community service schemes for youth, and provision of technical assistance.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
This programme targets people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), orphans, and orphan guardians. Activities include small scale dairy farming, bee keeping, weaving; unique intervention via abstinence messengers; personal and group counseling; home visits; health education.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Reduce HIV/AIDS infections in the area through family life education; prevention of mother-to-child infections (PMTCT); mother to child care; immunization programs. Assist PLWHAs and the affected people's families through provision of ARVs and counseling.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Reach the youth, especially school leavers, with HIV/AIDS awareness information through: peer counseling/education (youth-to-youth), life skills building, raising role models, supporting graduation ceremonies, drama, free counseling, HIV/AIDS and STI sessions to schools, and mobilization of youth to go for VCT.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Mobilize, train and raise youth leaders (to build the youth leadership capacity to play meaningful roles in the combat against HIV/AIDS) in the community; sensitize the community on prevention, care, counseling and support of the infected/affected persons.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Mobilize, train and raise youth leaders (to build the youth leadership capacity to play meaningful role in the combat against HIV/AIDS) in the community; sensitizing the community on prevention and counseling. Information is disseminated through the Youth Affairs Desk, Child Help Desk, and the General Programmes Desk.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Group therapy counseling initiatives. Other activities include vocational training; care and support for orphaned and vulnerable children; women empowerment; and reproductive health.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Strengthen and build capacity of the community so that the community people can identify their needs, efficiently and effectively utilize community resources, and enhance effective blending of community with government programmes.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Increase HIV/AIDS awareness among youths to support behaviour change. Increase children/youth participation in the design/implementation and management of HIV/AIDS programs. Programme operates through opinion leaders, church leaders, school heads, and administrators.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Disseminate awareness in the community, discourage negative cultural practices (e.g. wife inheritance), provide opportunities for testing and counseling through VCT, and provide care and support for orphans through a child vocational center.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Eradicate ignorance concerning skin infections, food poisoning, malnutrition or obesity by helping the needy and poor community control common infections using cheap and affordable means. Programs include mobile and hospital-based Curative clinics; counseling on nutrition and infection management; community sensitization on HIV/AIDS through seminars in schools, churches, women groups, etc.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide support and care to HIV/AIDS orphans; encourage and support orphans to pursue education; care, support and counseling to those affected and infected by HIV/AIDS; education and creation of awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Create awareness on HIV/AIDS and sensitize community on care and support for the infected and affected by: training of trainers; training of caregivers; basic counseling; management of opportunistic infections; referral of patients to health facilitators; home-based care components; care and support of orphans; family planning services; youth initiatives; post-abortion care; girl child education; gender mainstreaming; leadership training; syndromic assessment and referral.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Awareness creation on HIV/AIDS , community mobilization and participation, networking, community training, advocacy, home-based care/support. Activities are mostly carried out by youth using appropriate approaches such as sporting activities.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Build the capacity of the community to enhance its care and support to orphans. Create HIV/AIDS awareness through dissemination of information. Involve the community in HIV/AIDS control and mitigation programs.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Mobilize and organize youth to engage in productive activities through establishment of income generating activities and to promote economic welfare among the youth. The group also aims to create increased awareness at community level, through community mobilization, stigma reduction, open communication, accessibility to VCTs, and STI/STD reduction through encouragement of behavioral change.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provision of health services. Care and support of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS through feeding programme (targeted for 700 children). Mobile medical services. Training of community-based volunteers.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Mobilize community resources and utilize them to prevent further infections; ensure PLWAs could lead normal lives and live longer. Primary activities include HIV prevention and care; establishment of Anti-AIDS clubs in secondary schools; collaboration with other agencies.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Empower community with awareness on HIV/AIDS information and skills by providing: home-based care, HIV/AIDS counseling, home visits, medical support to PLWHAs, social and material support, micro-credit projects, IGAs for commercial sex workers, network with other partners, and run a center for street children at Kabete.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Care for patients, counsel mothers and reduce or prevent the rate of Mother-To-Child Transmission through: counselling and voluntary testing for admitted mothers in MCH; provision of nevirapine to HIV positive mothers and their infants; coordination and ensuring appropriate management of HIV positive pregnant mothers and their infants; provision of PMTCT services through mobile clinics; conducting practical training sessions for staff to satellite stations that want to start PMTCT; follow up visits to missed clients/infants; conducting community awareness of PMTCT and HIV/AIDS by invitations.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Reduce Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV among communities in 10 divisions of Kitui District - through VCTs and single nevirapine dose; awareness and follow-up of mothers and their infants; and community mobilizations through leaders, churches, schools and chief's barazas.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide care and support to PLWHAs (to give them comfort, prolong their lives, and when death comes, they die peacefully and in dignity). Operate a hospice for infected/affected children with disabilities. Activities include provision of home-based care and home visits for PLWHAs; care for orphans and children with disabilities; feeding program for PLWHA and affected children; medical care for AIDS-related illnesses; connecting, linking and settling orphans to their immediate relatives.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provision of home-based care and support for the HIV positive in North Bugumbe location in Kuria District; strengthen the resource base and capacity of staff to cope with the task; train and raise counselors.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Eradicate HIV/AIDS in the rural slums (kang'a) made up of pastoral, large plantation farmers, farm workers and squatters, primarily via dissemination of information through market outlets, chief's barazas, and schools.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Improve living standards of people in the community by facilitating quality activities in health education, environment and other socio-economic activities such as: capacity building for women and youth groups, environmental conservation, clean water and sanitation programs; peer education and civic education; community outreach through drama, poems, role plays, sports, choir, and music; guidance and couseling; resource centre for information; other outlets for information such as barazas, funerals, and weddings.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Disseminate information on HIV/AIDS.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Enable people living with HIV/AIDS accept their status and live a positive and longer life by providing care, support, and counseling. Sensitize the community on HIV/AIDS with facts about it and thereby reduce the stigma. Train care givers on HBC and provide home-based care activities.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Train the youth on responsible sexual behaviour through HIV/AIDS awareness and information dissemination via peer education, advocacy and awareness programs.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide financial support towards education of girl children, children with disabilities, and orphans primarily through: provision of education to the needy children and those orphaned by HIV/AIDS; running a feeding program in the school; provision of outreach services; disability awareness; provision of education and HIV/AIDS awareness; creating awareness on importance of girl child education; facilitating the community to initiate income generating activities.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS to bring about awareness to the Maasai and Turgen community in the area, especially the morans (youth) in the manyattas and in schools. Also provide counseling services to those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Help the public open up to come for voluntary testing and counseling (VCT); care and support those who are HIV positive. Provide training of nurses and HIV testing at VCT centre; VCT testing a the maternity ward and short rapid test for others at subsidized fee of KSH50 (less than US$1) at the hospital.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Creation of HIV/AIDS awareness in the local community with the aim of promoting behavioral change by disseminating health information.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Use theatre artists, professional counselors, and the affected/infected, and community health care workers to create HIV/AIDS awareness in Nyeri District. Mobilize and empower community to enhance their capacity to reduce their risks and vulnerability. Provide care and support to the infected and affected.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Support the community in fighting HIV/AIDS epidemic; care and support for orphans through vocational training (child heads of households), and indentification of orphans through community mobilization.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide care and support for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Activities also include awareness creation; water tank project; training of counselors; goat and sheep rearing project.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Creation of awareness of HIV/AIDS in the community through training and dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS, peer group education and training on caring for the infected. Provide educational assistance to orphaned children who are needy. Operate VCT Centres and promote behavioural change through drama, video and use of literature.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide education for prevention, care and support for the needy, orphans and the vulnerable groups in the society due to HIV/AIDS pandemic. Encourage income generating activities among the care givers, orphans/widow for self-sustaining headed households. Train care givers on home-based nursing care skills. Mobilize and sensitize communities on care and support for HIV/AIDS infected and affected people. Establish medicine revolving fund to assist the sick. Sensitize community on elimination of FGM. Establish maize, beans, soya, fertilizers revolving fund for horticultural farming.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Improve and uplift the living standards of the Maasai community in the target area and protect, conserve and promote its cultural aspects that are compatible with the progressive way of life. Create HIV/AIDS awareness, and provide financial support for basic education through a bursary scheme.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide education to community members; home-based care; raise health awareness; eradicate malnutrition; help the poor and orphans. Activities include training of community health workers, traditional birth attendants, and community leaders; involve mobile clinics in needy areas; liaise with Ministry of Health and other organizations on health matters; train nutrition assistants (with help of Ministry of Health); provide nutritional advice and demonstration of food at the program's seven clinics (2 stationary and 5 mobile); train children heading households on nutrition, budgeting, HIV/AIDS and environmental sanitation; offer clinical services.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Focus on behavioural change among the youth by: HIV/AIDS awareness programs; capacity building; health information and VCT; involve youth in garbage collection as an IGA employment to promote environmental sanitation; provide home-based care for the infected.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Enable the youth to participate in the development process that enhances self-reliance to alleviate poverty and ill health, e.g. through engagement in micro-enterprises; promote health through preventative and social intervention approaches; involve the youth in development plans and decision-making forums.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Influence the development of and secure gender equity and women empowerment through, e.g. teaching assertive skills to women. Focus on girl child education and the wider issues affecting children such as care and support. Address HIV/AIDS issues and its impact on our socio-economic aspect.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Ensure that the community is educated on the preventative measures against the spread of HIV/AIDS. Give counseling sessions to the community within and outside of Mombasa District. Provide guidance and counseling to the infected and affected; home-based care and follow-ups; prevention, care and education on HIV/AIDS; treatment of other infections.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Reduce the incidence and prevalence of HIV/AIDS in order to improve the health and quality of life of the infected and affected persons in the community by: creation of HIV/AIDS awareness through campaigns in schools and market centers; promotion of positive living; training of community counselors; promotion of peer education (e.g. through drama, songs and dance) in order to minimize the social ills related to HIV infection; build capactiy of Community Own Resource Persons (C0RPS) and support community-based efforts to respond to AIDS pandemic; provision of recreational opportunities for youth out of school through a centre with recreational facilities and activities; outreach to the youth through sports activities.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Assist communities to cope with the HIV/AIDS situation by accepting the problem and seeing community-driven solutions. Coordinate education of 200 orphans (under the Naisula Education Program). Help construct some housing for destitute children. Create awareness on HIV/AIDS in the community. Provide care, tratement and support to the infected and affected. Provide education to the poor and orphans; eye treatment for the elderly, and food distribution. Run a community health information centre.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Improve the overall welfare of the community by developing participatory sustainable programs that are demand responsive, e.g. malaria control; hygiene and sanitation education; community and mobilization on HIV/AIDS; awareness on disadvantages of FGM; behavioural and attitude change for youth.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Establish a safe environment, especially for the vulnerable groups through community involvement in all aspects of environmental appraisal and motivation in implementing change. Provide educational services which promote health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS infection and through awareness creation and education on STIs and HIV/AIDs.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Enable the community to cope with HIV/AIDS through supporting orphans, PLWHAs. Provide home based care for AIDS patients. Development/reception modification and distribution of IEC materials. Lobby for voluntary counseling and confidential testing. Mobilize the community to support and care for orphans. Research cultural practices and advocate for positive behaviour change. Establish a resource centre for information distribution.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide guidance and counseling. Provide opportunities for alternative education to out of school girls who cannot participate in the formal system of education. Provide family planning services. Provide social and legal services within and outside the target group. Creation of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. Provide educational opportunities at primary and secondary school and vocational training for children whose parents cannot afford to pay fees. Provide vocational skills training especially for teenage mothers within the age ranges of 16 to 20 years of age.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Empower youth in fighting HIV/AIDS pandemic in and out of schools. Create and show videos to schools. Sensitize establishment of children's homes. Promote Income Generating Activities. Provide nutrition guidance for people living with AIDS (PLWA). Train home based caregivers. Provide Anti-retroviral vaccines (ARV's). Campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Enhance holistic care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and the orphans. Key activities are: Orphan support and care, home based care, train public health home based care, community HIV/AIDS awareness and education, micro enterprises, network and liasing with local and international organizations embracing partnership and collaborative projects to benefit and develop the community.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Reach abandoned, neglected and disadvantaged marginalized people of the community by providing leadership development, psychosocial counseling, training and community development initiatives. Aims to sensitize the community on good practices and preventive measures, education, psychosocial counseling, exchange of ideas, resources and needs.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Assist teenage mothers and orphans in areas of their development needs in particular shelter, food, clothing, education, health and security so that they feel a part of the community that they live in.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Create awareness and provide information on HIV/AIDS among the Maasai youth by acting and performing in schools, giving talks on adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues (ASRH), distributing videos and IEC materials to schools, visiting children's homes, environmental cleaning and tree planning and youth sports.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provides counseling and testing to prevent Mother to Child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Those that test positive are advised to deliver in the hospital. Run supportive clinics to cater to HIV/AIDS patients. Provide ARV clinics twice a week to cater and provide supplied drugs at minimal cost. Home based care is emphasized.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Aquire and demonstrate basic skills in care and support for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Raise community awareness for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS location wide by the end of year 2004.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide care and support of orphans using available agricultural resources.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Create awareness of HIV/AIDS, its effects and repercussions. Counsel HIV positive people. Create HIV/AIDS awareness in schools, churches and the entire community.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Provide awareness on HIV/AIDS and STI and drug abuse to youth. Established HIV/AIDS youth clubs. Collaborates with elders in adressing cross border issues through cross border committees for a united effort to mitigate against HIV/AIDS on the common border.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Offers free counseling and legal services to affected women. Provides education to women on gender issues. Carries out workshops to help abandoned women.
Location
Kenya
Objectives:
Create a forum for the youth advocacy for behaviour change in order to reduce the high preference rate of HIV/AIDS among youth. Encourage youth to positive initiation of leisure time through volunteerism in community services, resource sharing i.e. Information Education Communication (IEC). Enhance the provision of youth friendly information and services in the available health facilities through advocacy. Set up a youth resource centre in Kikuyu. Source for funds to start Income Generating project to curb unemployment amongst our members and also to enhance sustainability of our projects. Network and collaborate with other established youth groups, NGOs, religious affiliations, the health sector and the ministry of health.
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