Families afflicted by HIV/AIDS in Kenya will get help they need: food, health care, training on how to deal with the disease and a source of income.

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Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS

Summary

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. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $32,000 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Kenya, three people die from HIV-related illnesses every five minutes. Families lack access to treatment, nutritional foods and care. In the rural villages of Kapkoi and Kambi in Moi’s Bridge, the situation is even worse. Over 68% of the families earn less than $1 a day. The only health center stocks basic drugs. Three in every 10 children are orphans. The project will strengthen the ability of PLWA guardians and individual families to cope with the effects of the scourge.

Activities

We will provide small-business loans to families affected by the disease; purchase antiretroviral drugs; offer bursaries to orphans; facilitate medical checkups for common infections; provide home-based care for PLWA and purify water for 50 families

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $32,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $32,000. The original project funding goal was $32,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (http://www.ashoka.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

To build a strong and functional network of grassroots social workers within rural communities who will provide moral, professional and psychological support to affected families and ensure that fundamental services are accessible to all.

Project Message

“I consider this program a 'resurrection'…a second chance to live. Though I’m HIV+, the program has given me another opportunity to serve my community, to prove that there is life after infection.”
- Reuben Mulongo, 38-year old project beneficiary, Kapkoi village

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stella Amojong,
Program Coordinator
P.O Box 630
Eldoret, Kenya 30100
Kenya
+254-53-2061269
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)
Market Street
Siro House, 2nd Flr, Room 207
ELDORET, RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE P.O Box 1439-30100
Kenya
+254-720-8446605

Learn more about Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI) and the project team.

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 05, 2006.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 20, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Thank You letter

By Joe - Communication Manager, December 05, 2006 05:03 PM

Before the introduction of ARV drugs in Kenya, contracting HIV was considered a death sentence. This is slowly changing but the stigma still remains as strong.

Many of our beneficiaries have undergone the full cycle. Kindly share a rare moment with one of our beneficiaries, Abel, a very creative and talented peer educator.

We are so proud of him!
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