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FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION
Annual Report First 4 Years:
2000–2003 Text-only Version
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GRANTS 2000 – 2003
Kenya
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Population
Population under age 18
HIV adult seroprevalence
Orphans as percent of all children
Total number of orphans
Percent of orphans due to AIDS
Total Firelight funding
Number of grants given
Number of grantee-partners
Percent of grantees regranted
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31.3 million
15.9 million
15%
12%
1.66 million
54%
$345,850
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14
71%
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CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KITUI, Kitui |
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2001 – $15,000 |
The Catholic Diocese of Kitui is
a community-based program that offers awareness raising, nutritional support,
and other types of assistance to those affected by HIV/AIDS. This grant
covers the costs (trainers, materials, and transportation) of sending 150
children to a workshop to address the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. It
also funds the formation of peer support groups and the participation of
the children’s parents in planning property succession and writing
wills.
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$5,000 |
This grant pays to train social
workers and orphans, purchase medicine, and provide other social programs
for vulnerable children.
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GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR HIV PREVENTION, Nairobi & Kendu
Bay |
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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.
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$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.
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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.
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GRASSROOTS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION (GRACE), Nairobi
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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.
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$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.
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KIBERA COMMUNITY SELF-HELP PROGRAMME (KICOSHEP), Nairobi |
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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.
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2002– $5,000 |
With this grant, KICOSHEP is replacing
stolen computers and office equipment.
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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.
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MAMA DARLENE CHILDREN’S CENTRE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS, Tala |
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2002 – $5,000 |
Monica Nguni, founder of Mama Darlene
Children’s Centre, started a number of programs to meet the educational,
emotional, and nutritional needs of disabled children and children orphaned
by AIDS. Her organization also works to raise people’s awareness of
the needs and rights of children with disabilities, who are often shunned
by their relatives and acquaintances. Located in a poor neighborhood, the
Centre provides healthcare, education, and meals to vulnerable children
ages 3 to 14 who would not attend school otherwise. Managed by parents,
the Centre also runs a vegetable garden and a refreshment kiosk as income-generating
activities. Grant funds are enabling the Centre to build a classroom and
to purchase play equipment for the 45 children it serves.
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MAPENDO AND ACTION WOMEN ASSOCIATION (MAWA), Mombasa |
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2001 – $50,000 |
Founded in 1993 by a group of HIV-positive
women, MAWA focuses on the psychosocial and economic needs of HIV-infected
and affected people with an emphasis on creating livelihood opportunities.
With this grant, MAWA is building a community center, a school, and a clinic
to serve 500 orphans and 200 guardians. The grant also covers costs associated
with running these facilities.
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PANDIPIERI COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMME (PCHP), Kisumu |
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2003 – $15,000 |
Pandipieri’s programs cover
13 marginalized communities in Kisumu on Lake Victoria, an area of high
HIV prevalence. Their integrated programs include nutrition education, peer
and child counseling, home-based care, and maternal and child healthcare.
Grant funds pay the salary of 2 nurses and 2 child counselors and cover
the expenses of training 40 youth in peer and child counseling. Since many
vulnerable children in schools may be hungry or have no outlet for their
grieving, the grant also supports efforts to instruct teachers and school-going
youth about HIV prevention and how to assist children affected by AIDS.
Funds also pay for essential medicines distributed through their community
health clinic.
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2001 – $15,000 |
In order to strengthen Pandipieri’s
community health program in the shanty towns around Kisumu, Firelight is
funding the salaries of a nutritionist and child counselor, the training
of 12 home-based care and childcare workers, and miscellaneous expenses.
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POSITIVE WIDOWS IN KENYA (POWIK), Athi River |
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2001 – $5,000 |
POWIK was founded by a group of
HIV-positive Maasai women in order to advocate for the equal rights and
recognition of widows living with AIDS and their children. They involve
local volunteers in outreach programs to serve vulnerable women and children
in underserved communities. With this grant, POWIK assists rural women and
young girls with home-based care, counseling, and advocacy.
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RURAL EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME (REEP),
Butula |
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2003 – $15,000 |
REEP conducts vocational skills
training and provides livestock, agricultural supplies, and sewing and knitting
machines to encourage self-reliance among 2,400 vulnerable children and
their caregivers in rural Kenya. REEP’s accomplishments have been featured
on Kenyan national television and applauded by the United Nations Development
Program and the World Bank. With this grant from Firelight, REEP is constructing
offices, a counseling room, a clinic/pharmacy, and a community meeting space.
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$3,000 |
This grant enables REEP to respond
to the emergency needs of caregivers of vulnerable children, such as for
housing and household expenses.
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2002 – $30,000 |
This grant funds the training of
community health workers and caregivers of children affected by AIDS in
home-based care techniques. It also establishes an HIV counseling and testing
center in the community.
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2001 – $30,000 |
REEP is using this grant to launch
a microcredit program for caregivers of orphans, to train orphans and their
guardians in counseling, and to provide vocational skills training to vulnerable
teenage youth. REEP works in partnership with a local bank, Butula Financial
Services Association, which manages a revolving loan fund with more than
250 families as shareholders. Using small loans from this fund, caregivers
and independent children initiate income-generating activities, such as
dairy farming, that improve their livelihoods and foster empowerment and
a spirit of hope.
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SAIDIA FURAHA ORGANIZATION (SFO), Kitengela |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Kitengela became industrialized
very quickly, resulting in an increase in both population and the incidence
of HIV. Saidia Furaha, Swahili for “Help to be Happy,” came into
existence to provide educational and vocational training opportunities and
counseling for orphaned children in the area. Firelight funds support educational
expenses for 77 primary school children, training for 20 young women in
tailoring, awareness-raising workshops on HIV/AIDS, and counseling sessions
for HIV-positive people and children affected by AIDS. Funds are also provided
to assist with organizational development.
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2001 – $6,500 |
Funds are providing orphans and
vulnerable children with primary school support, vocational training, and
workshops. This grant also covers some administrative costs.
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TEENAGE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN FAMILY HEALTH CARE PROGRAMME
(TEMAC), Eldoret |
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2002 – $3,000 |
Operating in an area where there
are many internally displaced people due to ethnic conflicts, TEMAC was
founded to help with the immediate needs of children and their caregivers.
This grant covers the costs of agricultural seeds, tools, and fertilizer
for the community garden and essential drugs for the community pharmacy.
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2001 – $2,500 |
The grant is providing partial
support for food and medicine to 75 orphans who live with guardians.
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WEM INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES (WEMIHS), Thika |
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2003 – $15,000 |
This organization has developed
an effective model for mobilizing Community Orphan Care Committees. They
address children’s needs for nutrition assistance and material necessities
like clothing, school uniforms, and shoes, as well as create support groups
for people living with AIDS. This grant enables WEMIHS to recruit and train
new members and to convene a stakeholders forum on advocacy for children’s
rights. It also funds home-based care visits to people living with AIDS
and their children.
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2001 – $11,600 |
This grant covers the cost of an
orphan needs assessment, a community mobilization program, and the training
of orphan care committees. It also partially supports a daycare program,
the improvement of healthcare facilities, and a school scholarship fund.
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WOMEN FIGHTING AIDS IN KENYA (WOFAK), Nairobi |
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2001 – $5,000 |
This organization started as a legal
aid society for women living with AIDS, to help them advocate for their
rights under Kenyan law. It has since grown into an organization that advocates
for women and children and works to raise public awareness of the special
needs of children. Grant funds pay for a 3-day advocacy skills seminar for
20 participants which includes a training on sexual abuse prevention and
treatment, and legal representation for orphans and caregivers.
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WORLD INTERNET RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION AND
DEVELOPMENT (WiRED), Thika |
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2003 – $15,000 |
WiRED’s network of Community
Health Information Centers — small, independently operated computer
labs — currently provides health-related information to one million
Kenyans. Over the past two years, WiRED has trained and empowered more than
two dozen unemployed Kenyan youth, vulnerable to HIV infection, to operate
the computer systems and train community members to use them. This grant
supports a pilot program to establish access for blind individuals, and
to initiate two mobile centers to reach disabled people unable to travel
to existing centers.
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2002 – $2,800 |
This grant is enabling a group of
youth affected by AIDS to manage a Community Health Information Center by
providing funds for staff salaries and a computer.
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2001 – $7,350 |
Firelight funding enables WiRED
to purchase seven computers and train seven AIDS orphans in a pilot program
of computer learning at a conference in Mombasa.
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Please note that this Annual Report covers the period from December 1,
1999 through September 30, 2003.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please send
an email to Cheryl Talley-Moon at Cheryl@firelightfoundation.org.
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