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CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF KITUI, Kitui
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.
2001 – $ 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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EDUCATION, SELF-SUSTAINABILITY, AND IMPROVEMENT
OF ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT GROUP (ESSIE), Nairobi
2007 – $ 5,600
ESSIE supports children and caregivers in 14 different communities
by offering training in income-generating activities, paying
for schooling, and conducting workshops on children’s rights
and HIV/AIDS-related issues.
2007 – $ 15,000
2006 – $ 2,200
ESSIE works to provide educational opportunities and health
care for communities affected by HIV/AIDS. With previous Firelight
funding, ESSIE convened community workshops on HIV/AIDS care,
paid school expenses for community children, and initiated collaborative
income-generating activities. Renewed funding enables ESSIE
to continue its capacity-building workshops for 300 community
members and to cover secondary school expenses for 10 youth.
Funds also cover some administrative expenses.
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FORUM FOR COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION (FOFCOM), Kiambu
2007 – $ 12,000
Empowering young people to take care of their health, FOFCOM
educates them in HIV/AIDS and operates a resource center,
a home-based care program, an HIV testing and counseling center,
and a tutoring program.
2006 – $ 5,000
Natasha Martin, a long-time supporter of Firelight and a former
member of the Firelight Advisory Board, selected FOFCOM to
receive a discretionary grant in her honor. FOFCOM focuses
on health interventions that empower children and youth. This
grant enables FOFCOM to expand its early childhood development
program, which focuses on children who are not ready for primary
school but have little or no home-based support. Firelight
funding covers teachers’ salaries and supplies for a
daycare center serving 30 children ages two to four years.
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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.
2002 - $ 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.
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GRASSROOTS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION
(GRACE), Nairobi
2007 – $15,000
Working with 116 youth-led groups, GRACE–Africa offers
technical assistance workshops, mentoring, entrepreneurship
training, and trade fairs where youth can market their goods
and services.
2005 – $13,800
GRACE supports locally led, grassroots programs to bring about
sustainable community building and an improved quality of life.
Two previous grants from Firelight covered GRACE’s operational
and administrative support costs and an organizational development
workshop involving representatives from 14 Firelight grantee-partner
organizations. This funding enables GRACE to conduct follow-up
visits to workshop participants in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
During each visit GRACE staff assesses the organization’s
progress in implementing action plans developed during the workshop.
They review the group’s financial and management systems,
documentation and reporting practices, program activities, governance,
and fundraising capacity. Using the information gathered, GRACE
works with organizations toward achieving greater effectiveness,
and efficiency.
2004 – $25,000
The Grassroots Alliance for Community Education provides leadership
development for community health workers and activists serving
grassroots communities to address the impact of HIV/AIDS. Previously,
Firelight funding enabled GRACE to train representatives from
14 Firelight grantee-partner organizations based in 5 countries
on topics relevant to organizational development, including
financial accounting and reporting, personnel management, and
basic strategic planning. This grant assisted Grace to rent
an office space, hire new staff, and cover operating expenses.
As a result Grace was able to better coordinate their support
to community-based organizations.
2004 – $25,000
This grant supports GRACE’s administrative and operating
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.
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.
2003 - $ 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
2007 – $15,000
KICOSHEP runs a broad array of HIV prevention, care, and
support programs, including voluntary testing centers, support
groups, clinics, income-generating activities, and a community
school.
2004 – $12,000
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.
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.
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MAMA DARLENE CHILDREN’S CENTRE AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, Tala, Kangundo
2007 – $4,300
Targeting poor and disabled children, Mama Darlene’s
operates a community school and conducts home visits to provide
caregivers with material, medical, counseling, and emotional
support.
2006 – $10,000 (Two-year grant)
Founded in 1996 by a retired teacher, Mama Darlene Children’s
Centre and Community Development Projects supports poor and
disabled children who are often marginalized by their communities.
Mama Darlene’s has launched a school that, in addition
to providing vulnerable children with educational opportunities,
serves as the community’s hub for organizing home-based
care and income-generating activities. Firelight funds allow
Mama Darlene’s to continue providing educational, medical,
and nutritional support to 52 children who are attending the
school. The organization is also expanding its activities to
include 42 additional orphans and vulnerable children, as well
as their caregivers.
2005 – $10,000
Founded in 1996 by a retired teacher, Mama Darlene Children’s
Centre supports children living in poverty, children living
with disabilities, and their guardians. Mama Darlene staff and
volunteers visit vulnerable families, provide material and psychosocial
support, and unite children with foster families. Mama Darlene
is the only group in its area addressing the special needs of
children with disabilities. Previous Firelight grants have supported
Mama Darlene to provide educational, medical, and nutritional
support to children at its school (30 percent of whom live with
a disability), and to expand its outreach assistance to homebound
vulnerable children and their caregivers. With this grant Mama
Darlene Children’s Centre helps support 160 children at
its school, offering free education to the most impoverished
children, as well as medical checkups and daily meals to all
students. Funds also enable the group to provide regular home
visits to 60 vulnerable families and to conduct HIV/AIDS awareness-raising
activities.
2004 – $8,000
Mama Darlene Children’s Centre and Community Development
Projects provides 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.
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
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
2004 – $22,000 (Two-year grant)
PCHP provides integrated support to nearly 4,500 children and
families in 15 poor urban communities. 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.
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.
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
2004 – $8,000
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 women
in palliative care. These peer educators conducted outreach
to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in workplaces, primary and
secondary schools, churches, and mosques. Palliative care volunteers
made home visits to vulnerable children and their sick guardians.
This year’s grant allows POWIK to provide group counseling
to 24 HIV-positive women and youth, train foster caregivers
in income-generating activities, and train new volunteers in
counseling and care of children affected by HIV/AIDS.
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
2007 – $30,000
Focusing on children’s legal rights, REEP trains youngsters
to be advocates on their own behalf and trains community volunteers
to be paralegals and counselors.
2007 – $5,800
2005 – $15,000
REEP strives to break the silence surrounding HIV/AIDS by
working with its community to enhance the economic, physical,
and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable families and children.
Operating in rural western Kenya, the organization provides
business management training and credit access to caregivers
and adolescent orphans and supports several hundred youth in
secondary or vocational schools. REEP’s 30 home-based care
teams tend to more than 10,000 children and caregivers. Previous
Firelight funding supported REEP in preparing more than 250
caregivers to initiate and maintain viable small businesses.
Firelight also helped REEP build an office that includes a health
clinic and a resource center, and to purchase a motorbike and
a cell phone to facilitate monitoring of beneficiaries. This
regrant enables REEP to organize two workshops: the first to
train 46 adult community members in the skills necessary to
serve as paralegals for abused children, the second to teach
36 community leaders strategies for promoting children’s
rights.
2004 – $7,500
Two-year grant REEP conducts vocational skills training and
provides livestock, agricultural supplies, and sewing and knitting
machines to encourage self-reliance among youth and caregivers
in rural Kenya. The organization also offers microcredit programs
and home-based care services. Firelight’s previous grant
enabled REEP to break ground on a new office block and to lay
its foundation. With this grant, REEP will purchase a cellular
telephone and a motorcycle to assist in communication and outreach
to better serve the community.
2004 – $64,000 (Two-year grant)
In 2003, Firelight featured REEP in a video to raise donor awareness
about the work of community-based organizations. In response,
donors requested that funds be directed to complete the construction
of an office block presented in the video. The building will
house offices, a meeting room, a pharmacy, and a small clinic.
This rural district of approximately 120,000 people currently
does not have access to these services.
$32,000 of this grant was funded through Firelight’s
Donor Advised Fund at Tides Foundation.
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.
2003 - $ 3,000
This grant enables REEP to respond to the emergency needs
of caregivers of vulnerable children, such as for housing
and household expenses.
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.
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
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.
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
2004 – $3,000
TEMAC works to meet the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children
in Uasin Gishu, Eldoret in Western Kenya. Previously, Firelight
funding supplied a community pharmacy, provided food for impoverished
families, and assisted 65 children with school materials.
This grant enables TEMAC to continue this assistance for 70
children and covers basic operational costs.
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.
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
2007 – $5,600
WEMIHS works to strengthen community capacity to provide food
security, healthcare, child protection, education, and caregiver
support services.
2006 – $30,000 (Two-year grant)
WEMIHS focuses on strengthening community capacity to respond
holistically to the issues of vulnerable children. Previous
Firelight funding enabled WEMIHS to establish six community
orphan care centers and to hold a series of informational
community meetings, reaching hundreds of participants. This
regrant helps WEMIHS improve its psychosocial support services
in six schools and coordinate the efforts of other service
providers in its area. Funds also assist WEMIHS in supporting
the guardians of vulnerable children with health care, food,
and links to comprehensive services for the children in their
care. Finally, funds partially cover the salaries of four
staff members.
2004 – $24,000 (Two-year grant)
WEMIHS offers care, educational support, and other services
to vulnerable children, caretakers, and people living with
HIV/AIDS. WEMIHS used Firelight’s previous grant to train
60 members of village-level orphan care committees in program
planning and strategies for meeting the needs of children
affected by HIV/AIDS. WEMIHS also identified and registered
350 orphans for its program of educational, material, and
psychosocial support. Firelight’s grant will enable WEMIHS
to support additional training for volunteers and staff, provide
counseling to 75 children, and run a grandmothers’ support
group for 30 caregivers.
The entire grant was funded through Firelight’s Donor
Advised Fund at Tides Foundation.
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.
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
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
2003 – $ 10,000
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.
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.
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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