SOME KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

KAIPPG has grown from a small, single-community based nonprofit established in 1995 to an international organization with a branch in the USA. In Kenya we assist a large network of community-development projects, and have had great success with our home-based care and nutritional programs. We estimate that we have provided HIV/AIDS education to upwards of one million people, and directly help 30,000 individuals and families per year. We have become partners with or affiliates of numerous local, national, regional, and international organizations, and have received a number of grants and requests for materials about our work and trainings, in addition to working with foreign and Kenyan volunteers who want to assist our programs in Kenya. Our use of arts and ICTs to address HIV/AIDS and sustainable development brings our programs to a wider clientele and audience. We are working with traditional healers in addition to being activists for ARV treatments.

About KAIPPG

KAIPPG is a community based nonprofit organization located in Mumias, Kenya, which is dedicated to preventing and ameliorating HIV/AIDS, poverty, malnutrition, and lack of education and healthcare.

KAIPPG's guiding philosophy is helping people to help themselves, and to that end, each individual and group working with KAIPPG plans and implements their own program of action, evaluating its progress along the way, and making changes as needed. We provide material aid when we can, support and technical assistance, and training and counselling.

We have an intensive and extensive program of education (about HIV/AIDS, in terms of job-skills and food production, and also in terms of general education), and we specialize in counselling, dietary-intervention, healthcare, home-based care for PLWHAS, and programs to help orphans and other vulnerable children, youth, and women in particular.

We work to reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by people with HIV/AIDS, and try to help communities come to grips with its many aspects and effects.

We address:

• Poverty (through our microcredit and job-training programs).
• Malnutrition and food insecurity (through an innovative crop-husbandry and food production program, emphasizing local foodstuffs, and nutrition education).
• Lack of education and healthcare (we help send children to school and are developing programs for out-of-school and non-traditional students, and we have health facilities and staff who see to a wide variety of health challenges).
• Human-rights (through advocacy for various populations affected and infected by HIV/AIDS).
• Environmental sustainability (by ensuring that our programs reflect sound environmental principles and practices).