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GRANTS 2000 – 2003 GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR HIV PREVENTION, Nairobi & Kendu Bay 2002 – $2,200 Global Strategies for HIV Prevention operates throughout the world to create partnerships with those who work to prevent HIV and who share a commitment to alleviate the suffering of women and children. This grant enables a Kenyan youth development specialist to travel to Ghana to offer a workshop on community-based programming for vulnerable children and to share lessons learned from the Kenyan experience. $3,900 Firelight funds enable a group of church-based volunteers to conduct awareness-raising sessions on the needs of children affected by AIDS in the community. They are training 30 volunteers in nursing skills and childcare to reach approximately 90 children. The funds also help to establish a resource center for vulnerable children and their caregivers. 2001 – $7,000 Matched by $7,000 in contributions from Global Strategies, this grant helps support the Child Health Program of Kendu Bay. The funds provide Bactrim for 200 children and 100 adults for one year. Bactrim is a drug used to protect HIV-positive and immune-compromised children against pneumonia. Funding also pays for HIV screening tests, transportation costs, and home visits. GRASSROOTS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EDUC<strong>ATION</strong> (GRACE), Nairobi 2003 – $3,000 The Grassroots Alliance for Community Education provides leadership development among community health workers and activists working with grassroots communities to fight HIV/AIDS. This grant helps GRACE establish an office in Nairobi. $27,000 Grant funding enables GRACE to facilitate a training workshop for 14 Firelight grantee-partner organizations that have requested technical assistance in financial and narrative reporting, accounting and budgeting, program development, and program administration. Funds also support follow-up visits to participants. KIBERA COMMUNITY SELF-HELP PROGRAMME (KICOSHEP), Nairobi 2003 – $15,000 KICOSHEP was founded by an Anglican minister in response to the overwhelming numbers of orphaned children that she encountered in Kibera, one of Africa’s biggest slums. The organization currently offers a program of comprehensive care for the needs of vulnerable children including education, counseling, nutrition, emotional support, HIV/AIDS awareness and education, and access to livelihood opportunities. Firelight funding provides for the purchase of 10 sewing training and tailoring classes for youth, the training of caregivers in income generating activities and caregiving skills, and the provision of rent for 10 families. Funds also provide a daily hot lunch for 375 children in the KICOSHEP school. 2002 – $5,000 With this grant, KICOSHEP is replacing stolen computers and office equipment. 2001 – $21,000 This grant provides funds to subsidize the basic needs of orphans (food, medicine, clothes, etc.), train caregivers in orphan-specific issues, and provide vocational training to orphans.
Caroline Omondi is the Orphans Coordinator for the Kibera Community Self Help Programme (KICOSHEP). KICOSHEP was founded by Anglican Minister Anne Owiti to minimize the impact of AIDS on the community in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Caroline was a teenager living in Kibera when her mother and father died. Being the first-born in a family of seven children, she had a very difficult time coming to terms with the reality of her loss. “It was very clear that all my siblings would start depending on me as a guardian,” Caroline says. “Most of my relatives ran away from us, and the ones who visited us only came occasionally.” Caroline worried that she would have to drop out of school in order to care for her siblings – until Anne Owiti identified her family as one needing KICOSHEP’s support. KICOSHEP provided for Caroline and her siblings, enabling the entire family to continue their schooling. Orphans Coordinator – Nairobi, Kenya GRANTS 2000 – 2003 Once Caroline finished secondary school she became a full-time volunteer at KICOSHEP, receiving training on how to work with orphans and youths like herself. She eventually was hired by the organization. “My work involves counseling, home and school visits, education on HIV/AIDS, leadership training, and workshop facilitation,” she explains. “I call meetings and run different clubs for youths and orphans and also train grandmothers on how to work with orphans.” Caroline’s training has helped her give back to the community and support her family: “I stay with my siblings. Two of my sisters and a brother have completed their education. They are looking for employment. I am still educating some of my siblings – two are in secondary and one is in primary school. “My greatest appreciation goes to KICOSHEP, who came to the rescue of my family after my parents’ death when we had no one to support us,” Caroline says. “Despite the fact that we’ve got no parents, we lead a very happy life because every one of us has been or is still being educated. We eat together and dress like any other person. Life continues, because we are comforted, realizing that many more orphans in the area are also undergoing the same problems, just like us.” Caroline Omondi (left) © Jennifer Astone
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