Partners in Kenya
Click on a partner below to find out more about their work improving the lives of children affected by HIV & AIDS in Kenya.
Ace Africa - Kenya
Based in Siaya County near the Ugandan border, where high HIV prevalence means more than 1 in 5 children have lost a parent, Ace Africa's mission is to improve the lives of children and their communities through cost-effective programmes.
Ace Africa’s current 3 year (2022 - 2025) Strategic Project aims to increase access to health services for 25,000 children and family members living in rurally isolated communities, and strengthen 1,400 marginalised families’ ability to generate a livelihood and survive economic shocks enabling them to provide for the 4,200 children in their care. Ace Africa will also work with local government, agencies and communities to protect and safeguard the rights of 45,000 children through establishment and strengthening of community-based child protection systems and increased access to justice for adolescents and children, increasing the number of children enrolled in school and providing a referral and protection network so that children can grow and flourish.
| Egmont & Ace Africa - Kenya |
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| Started working together in 2007
93,467 people helped 9 projects funded Grant level - Strategic |
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Community Fight Against HIV & AIDS
Kisumu is Kenya’s fourth largest city and has an HIV prevalence more than three times that of the national prevalence, 17.5% compared to the national HIV prevalence of 4.9%. Kisumu has, in recent years, also witnessed a worrying trend in increasing sexual violence directed towards young women and girls. Within this context, cases of abuse can lead to life-long infection of HIV.
Community Fight Against HIV & AIDS was formed in 2015 by a group of women to support families affected by violence and HIV. In 2017, it established a safe house for child survivors of sexual violence and has since supported 2,671 child survivors. Egmont is supporting Community Fight to implement their Tuungane Tulinde Watoto project in the Obunga and Manyatta slums of Kisumu. The project targets 3,000 middle-school girls from 10 public primary schools and will train local actors such as teachers, community health volunteers, religious leaders, and administrators to respond to child sexual violence cases, and provide a reporting system through suggestion boxes in schools and a toll-free number. The project will also educate children and their parents through Community Participatory Educative Theatre and establish Child Rights clubs in schools, helping children to identify behaviours of abuse, how to respond and how to seek help.
| Egmont & Community Fight |
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| Started working together in 2022
9,100 people helped 2 projects funded Grant level - Core grant |
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Girl Child Counselling Women Group
Young women in Kenya have been especially affected by the HIV epidemic. Due to the lack of economic opportunities that are available to them, many find themselves dependent on transactional sexual relationships, where they are vulnerable to diseases such as HIV. As a result, young women in Kenya aged 15 - 24 are twice as likely to contract HIV as their male counterparts.
GCCWG are expanding on the work they have previously done with The Egmont Trust, looking to reach more communities and beneficiaries than ever before. Their new project will focus on providing family planning options and counselling to thousands of women, giving them more control over their lives. It will also provide HIV testing and counselling services to over 7,000 young people, ensuring that they are aware of their HIV status. GCCWG are also focussing on improving the economic prospects of these young people, providing vocational training courses to 60 young women and 30 young men, ensuring that they are able to find employment. 69 HIV+ mothers are being provided with goats, to improve their nutritional intake and to offer a source of income through selling the milk.
| Egmont & GCCWG |
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| Started working together in 2015
26,522 people helped 4 projects funded Grant level - Enhanced Core |
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The Nasio Trust
Over a quarter of the children in Kenya show stunted growth due to poverty and a lack of nutrition. The Nasio Trust is based in Kakamega County, in which 4,000 people are living with HIV & AIDS. This combined with high levels of poverty – over a third of the population live on less than $1.90 a day – means that many families are unable to send their children to school or feed them adequately.
The staff and volunteers of The Nasio Trust form an integral part of their local community. Their Egmont project is focussed on improving the community’s understanding of HIV and AIDS, particularly amongst young people where the rates of infection are worryingly high. The Nasio Trust have trained 100 young people to become peer mentors to go out into the local villages and educate their young people on the importance of HIV prevention measures, and how to access HIV testing. This project also features innovative work with local disabled youth, a group that has long been marginalised and stigmatised in Kenya. Nasio will be supporting them through their peer educators with HIV and sexual health information sessions.
| Egmont & Nasio |
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| Started working together in 2018
4,750 people helped 4 projects funded Grant level - Core |
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Pepo La Tumaini Jangwani
Egmont Partner Pepo La Tumaini Jangwani (The Wind of Hope in the Desert) operates in Isiolo, a town on one of Kenya’s main routes to the border with Ethiopia and Somalia. As a result, Isiolo is home to multiple ethnic groups, including semi-nomadic pastoralists living on the rural outskirts. More than half the population live below the national poverty line and frequent droughts and recent urbanisation have impacted semi-nomadic groups who largely rely on livestock production. Over 46% of adults in Isiolo have had no formal education, contributing to high levels of stigma towards HIV and TB patients and poor treatment uptake. Treatment coverage for HIV is at 59%, way below the national average of 90%.
Pepo has been working with Isiolo’s marginalised communities for 25 years, delivering community-led health and education responses. In their Egmont-funded project, Pepo are addressing issues around treatment access and adherence among those living with HIV, AIDS and TB, as well as enhancing health education to reduce infection rates and stigma. The project aims to reach 3,000 people, building the knowledge and skill of 35 health volunteers in HIV, AIDS and TB management and prevention, and providing care for 75 housebound individuals. Mobile health camps will bring services, health education and testing to over 1,500 people from marginalised groups (including street youth, prostitutes, drug users and pastoralists), and health debate groups for 180 men to reduce stigma and violence against people living with HIV & AIDS and TB.
| Egmont & Pepo |
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| Started working together in 2024
3,000 people helped 1 project funded Grant level - Innovation |
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Sponsored Arts for Education (SAFE)
The Westgate Conservancy Area, near the Samburu National Reserve in central Kenya, is home to some 5,000 Samburu tribespeople. Traditionally a semi-nomadic community, the Samburu’s knowledge about HIV & AIDS remains minimal. This, combined with the almost universal practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), means that HIV prevalence among women in Samburu County is considerably higher than the national average.
Sponsored Arts for Education (SAFE) is being supported by Egmont to bring its programme of performance-based education to Westgate. With Egmont’s support over the last five years, SAFE have already made significant progress in increasing demand for HIV services and reducing the prevalence of FGM. SAFE use dramatic performances in the traditional Samburu style, performed by local volunteers to educate the Samburu communities of Westgate on the dangers of HIV and FGM. With their Egmont Strategic Grant, SAFE are planning to reach over 4,500 people over the next three years with these messages. They will also use workshops and lectures to create a dialogue between community members that can pave the way for an alternative rite of passage and the end of FGM in the community.
| Egmont & SAFE |
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| Started working together in 2016
25,138 people helped 4 projects funded Grant level - Strategic |
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