FIRELIGHT FOUND ATION

hire new staff, and cover operating expenses. As a result GRACE was able to better coordinate their support
to community-based organizations, as well as host visitors and other organizations.
$25,000 – Regrant This grant supports GRACE’s administrative and operative costs, such as office rent and personnel expenses,
enabling them to work with partner organizations, hold a documentation workshop, and start a youth
program and an HIV/AIDS outreach program for the deaf.
KIBERA COMMUNITY SELF-HELP PROGRAMME (KICOSHEP), Kibera
$12,000 – Regrant KICOSHEP offers an integrated program of HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities to residents of Kibera,
a sprawling slum in Nairobi. The organization runs a community school and offers a range of supplemental
services, including health care, food, vocational education, psychosocial support, home-based care training
and services, and income-generating activities. Previous Firelight funding has supported KICOSHEP’s
community school, which educates hundreds of children who would not otherwise be able to meet their
educational expenses. With this grant, KICOSHEP is training 50 families in income-generating activities
and providing business start-up assistance. Funds also help ten vulnerable youth attend secondary school.
Finally, funding enables KICOSHEP to build the capacity of ten Kenyan community-based organizations by
training the staff in psychosocial support programs and income-generating activity administration.
GRANTS 2004
MAMA DARLENE CHILDREN’S CENTRE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, Tala
$8,000 – Regrant Mama Darlene Children’s Centre and Community Development Projects provide health care, education,
and meals to vulnerable children ages 3 to 14. Previously, Firelight funded the construction of a classroom
and the purchase of playground equipment, and helped orphans with medical and educational needs. In
addition, past funding helped to educate 1,000 community members about HIV/AIDS. This grant helps
the Centre to provide psychosocial support to 45 children and their caregivers. The grant also brings
educational and nutritional support to over 50 children.
PANDIPIERI COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMME (PCHP), Kisumu
$22,000 – Regrant PCHP provides integrated support to nearly 4,500 children and families in 15 poor urban communities.
Two-year grant Firelight funding has previously enabled PCHP to train counselors who support children through parental loss.
This grant allows PCHP to train and provide small stipends to its volunteer counselors. It also provides funds
to conduct workshops for the caregivers of malnourished children to teach them how to prepare nutritious
food. In addition, funds help PCHP expand its clinical care for youth with sexually transmitted infections.
The entire grant was funded through Firelight’s Donor Advised Fund, at Tides Foundation.
POSITIVE WIDOWS IN KENYA (POWIK), Athi River
$8,000 – Regrant POWIK, an association of HIV-positive women, works to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated
with HIV/AIDS by offering advocacy, home-based care, and counseling programs that assist women
and girls. With Firelight’s previous grant, POWIK trained 15 high school girls as peer educators and 25