Kenya Funded Projects

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Education and Livelihood for 250 youth in Kaplamai
Kenya, Education
Funded $2,245 (of $57,530 requested)
This project provides 250 youths from single/poor parents or orphans with education and livelihood opportunities in rural Kenya. progress reportread updates from the field
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Can You Imagine a New Generation of African Women?
Kenya, Education , Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Funded $150 (of $20,000 requested)
While many organizations provide scholarships for girls in Africa, Our Girls’ Powerhouse program is one of the only programs in Kenya providing educational opportunities for girls beyond academics.
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Keeping Hope Alive for 1000 Children and Youth
Kenya, Health
Funded $850 (of $25,000 requested)
Offering sports, games, lifeskills, counselling, clothing and education to 1000 children and youths affected by Ethnic Viloence at Kachibora IDP camp in Kenya. progress reportread updates from the field
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Reverse Deserts Through Community Transformation
Kenya, Climate Change (GG Green) , Buy Gifts for Good
Funded $40,000 (of $40,000 requested)
Rural Kenya and many urban dwellers rely on charcoal and firewood for energy, which is destroying Kenya's forests. We provide fast-growing trees as alternative sources of fuel and food for livestock. progress reportread updates from the field
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Training in HIV/AIDS for 40 girls in Kilifi
Kenya, Women and Girls
Funded $3,300 (of $3,300 requested)
The project provides HIV/AIDS training for 40 girls who will reach out with this new information to 3,000 girls in rural Kenya progress reportread updates from the field
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Help Save Elephants in Kenya!
Kenya, Environment
Funded $3,129 (of $10,000 requested)
Help Maasai warrior and conservationist Saayio “Titus” Letaapo save elephants in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. progress reportread updates from the field
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Urgent Aid for Kenya-- Food, Supplies, and Support
Kenya, Health
Funded $4,875 (of $25,000 requested)
Donations will support organizations responding to the post-election crisis in Kenya, including feeding and medical programs, shelter, transportation, and psychological counseling for victims. progress reportread updates from the field
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Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status
Kenya, Health
Funded $120 (of $25,000 requested)
The project seeks to reach out to an estimated 3,000 high-risk and vulnerable people who are unable to access health facilities to know their HIV status and thus seek treatment and social care. progress reportread updates from the field
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Radios for Grassroots Democracy Project in Kenya
Kenya, Democracy and Governance
Funded $18,156 (of $358,000 requested)
Professor Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement, would like wind-up Freeplay Lifeline radios so that Kenyans can access vital information. progress reportread updates from the field
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Train AIDS Vaccine Researchers in Kenya
Kenya, Education
Funded $949 (of $60,000 requested)
Women are especially vulnerable to AIDS, both socially and biologically. Doctors and technicians doing AIDS vaccine research need to be trained on sensitivities of dealing with the disease in women. progress reportread updates from the field
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Rescuing Young Brides in Kenya
Kenya, Women and Girls
Funded $2,500 (of $2,500 requested)
The Bride Rescue Project rescues young girls from harmful cultural practices and provides them with education and shelter at the AIC Girls Primary School. progress reportread updates from the field
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Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS
Kenya, Health
Funded $32,000 (of $32,000 requested)
The project will provide 250 poor families affected by HIV/AIDS in Moi’s Bridge, Kenya, with basic necessities: nutritional foods, antiretrovirals, training, medical checkups and a source of income. progress reportread updates from the field
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Lalmba Association
Kenya, Health
Funded $38,963 (of $50,000 requested)
Care for AIDS orphans in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and in Kenya.
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New Technology for Farmers in Africa
Kenya, Economic Development
Funded $120,163 (of $200,000 requested)
KickStart creates and markets tools that enable African families to climb out of poverty forever. In FY 08, we plan to assist more than 90,000 more people to escape from poverty.
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Carolina for Kibera, Inc.
Kenya, Health
Funded $2,050 (of $11,000 requested)
Preventing ethnic conflict and promoting participatory development through youth-led service and athletic opportunities and access to a primary care clinic, library, and AIDS peer education. progress reportread updates from the field
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Empower Women to Fight HIV and End FGM in Kenya
Kenya, Women and Girls
Funded $1,005 (of $7,500 requested)
Breaking the Silence trains Indigenous Samburu women and girls to understand and prevent HIV/AIDS and end the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), also called "female circumcision". progress reportread updates from the field
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Litigating Female Circumcision In Kenya
Kenya, Human Rights
Funded $1,650 (of $39,600 requested)
This project involves training and deployment of monitors in rural areas of Kenya to report cases of FGM to us and we take legal action to protect the victims. progress reportread updates from the field
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Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Kenya
Kenya, Health
Funded $576 (of $15,000 requested)
A low-cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through local businesses in developing countries.
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Restoring Family Networks for Vulnerable Children
Kenya, Economic Development
Funded $854 (of $26,940 requested)
Kenyan street youth & AIDS orphans are reunited with local support networks (e.g., family/relatives) and provided education, life skills, and micro- enterprise support to promote holistic development.
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Economic opportunities for East African villages
Kenya, Economic Development
Funded $514 (of $20,000 requested)
The program will support over 1,700 people in rural Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to increase income by making and marketing crafts. Producers will be linked with key markets using e-commerce technology.
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Creating eco-tourism and reducing poverty in Kenya
Kenya, Environment
Funded $440 (of $33,000 requested)
The Il Ngwesi Group Ranch is reducing local poverty and conserving biodiversity through promotion of ecotourism and establishment of a community owned trust responsible for local land management.
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Micro-enterprise Development in East Africa
Kenya, Economic Development
Funded $264 (of $20,000 requested)
The program will support over 1,700 people in rural Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to increase income by making and marketing crafts. Producers will be linked with key markets using e-commerce technology.
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Transportation for AIDS Vaccine Trial Volunteers
Kenya, Health
Funded $484 (of $38,500 requested)
Volunteers for a preventive AIDS vaccine often face major obstacles in reaching the testing center. The Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative urgently needs a van and driver for these volunteers.
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HOPE FOR 50 KENYAN WOMEN , YOUTH MICRO -ENTERPRISE
Kenya, Economic Development , Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Funded $30 (of $5,071 requested)
Training and empowering 50 kenyan women and youth in social entrepreneurship and investment in rural areas by provinding small loans to start or expand their micro-business and mentorship to transform
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Schooling 500 children left behind by AIDS
Kenya, Education
Funded $250 (of $46,200 requested)
A team of 10 to 12 design professionals will design a master plan for the education of 500 and housing for 200 orphaned children on the 12.5 acre site of the existing St. Nicholas Orphanage.
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Expansion of Research Clinic for AIDS/HIV Vaccine
Kenya, Health
Funded $1,250 (of $238,150 requested)
Additional space/equipment are needed at the Kangemi clinic to accommodate AIDS vaccine clinical trials.
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Technology Connects Kenya Scientists to Vital Data
Kenya, Technology
Funded $260 (of $54,000 requested)
AIDS vaccine trials require a lot of data to be analyzed. This project supports the I.T. network that allows field sites to communicate data to the main lab for research & entry in central database. progress reportread updates from the field
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AIDS Vaccine Research in Kenya
Kenya, Health
Funded $3,752 (of $928,500 requested)
23 years have passed since AIDS was first diagnosed, and with 14,000 new HIV infections every day, we must speed the search for an AIDS vaccine - the world's best hope to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS
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HIV Prevention Education, Counseling and Testing
Kenya, Health
Funded $480 (of $124,960 requested)
Strengthening voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) services is essential to an AIDS vaccine clinical trials program to select volunteers not infected with HIV for study.
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Empowering poor women In Kenya
Kenya, Economic Development , Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Funded $50 (of $49,500 requested)
Rafode is an organization aimed at poverty alleviation through enterprise development by guiding the economically active poor women in provision of financial services
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Bread without Borders Orphans Support Project
Kenya, Education , Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Funded $40 (of $48,000 requested)
High rate of poverty,high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and malaria in Kisumu has contributed to high number of orphans in the slums resulting in child labor,street life child prostitution & school drop out.
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HIV Prevention Education, Counseling and Testing
Kenya, Health
Funded $100 (of $124,960 requested)
Strengthening voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) services is essential to an AIDS vaccine clinical trials program to select volunteers not infected with HIV for study.
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Millennium Water Program in Kenya
Kenya, Health
Funded $400 (of $1,000,000 requested)
The MWP works to carry out programs with point of use (POU) water treatments and hand-washing basins, spring catchments, shallow well rehabilitation, borehole construction and micro-loans. progress reportread updates from the field
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Bring HIV/AIDS Information to Kenyan Pediatricians
Kenya, Health
Funded $25 (of $124,575 requested)
Create an electronic forum to engage doctors, nurses, and medical students in pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment and knowledge-sharing in collaboration with the Kenya National Pediatric HIV Training Program progress reportread updates from the field
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