The Nyumbani Village in Kenya will be a self-sustaining community to serve orphans and elders who have been left behind by the “lost generation” of the AIDS pandemic.
Supervisor: Sister Mary Owens, Executive Manager
Projects:
Children's Home - Through family-like group homes and community institutions, the Village will harness the energy of youth and the maturity of elders to create new blended families that foster healing, hope and opportunity. The goal is to provide compassion and service to all affected by AIDS, so that they will rise up to lead productive, safe and comfortable lives. Village residents will receive love, sustenance, health-care and education, aiming at their physical and spiritual development. With an ample area of tillable land, the occupants sustain themselves through agriculture, poultry, dairy projects as well as handicrafts and external services. The adolescents will benefit from the knowledge of the elderly occupants, who in turn will benefit from the support of the younger population. Vocational opportunity in the form of training, tools, and start up financing for trades, cottage industry and agricultural endeavors will be provided with the goal of self-sustaining independence, financial security and stability for residents, particularly maturing young people.
Lea Toto - "to raise the child" - Outreach clinics in slums. Lea Toto, Swahili for “to raise the child”, is a community-based outreach program providing services to HIV+ children and their families in the Kangemi, Waithaka, Kawangware, Riruta, Mutuini, Ruthimitu, Kibera and Kariobangi communities of Nairobi, Kenya.
Recognizing that the orphanage was unable to provide direct support to the growing number of HIV+ children in the Nairobi area, Nyumbani launched the Lea Toto Program in 1998. The Lea Toto project uses the Home Based Care (HBC) model. All HBC programs have one goal in common - "improvement of the quality of life of the affected through a package of comprehensive care for the client and his/her family". This package usually includes:
- Basic medical and nursing care
- Counseling and psychological support
- Spiritual guidance
- Relief for social needs
- HIV transmission prevention education
- Promotion of community empowerment/ownership
- Self-help
In 1999, with funding from USAID, Lea Toto became a full community-based care program charged to carry out a project targeting HIV+ children in the Kangemi slums of Nairobi.
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