How we are helping

In Kenya we are working with partner organisations in the country’s second largest city, Mombasa. It is currently home to 33,000 Aids orphans for whom life is desperately hard. Very often they are living from hand-to-mouth, and just surviving each day is a real challenge. In this environment, their emotional needs consistently take second place. 




We are currently supporting an orphanage in one of the poorest parts of the city. Our focus is on the emotional and psychological well-being of the children there. In April 2010 we were able to make our first proper psychological assessment of the children when two trained psychologists from London’s leading teaching hospitals volunteered to travel to the orphanage on our behalf. 


During their stay, the psychologists identified many children who were deeply traumatised and in need of urgent support. They also spent time training various members of staff including house-mothers based at the orphanage, as well as teachers, parents and nurses from the local school and hospital the children attend regularly. 



The training sessions focused on basic HIV awareness, as well as parenting, counseling and behaviour management of vulnerable children. Work also began on helping carers to appropriately approach and sensitively deal with the subject of disclosure of HIV status to children.



We very much hope to be able to fund more training trips like this and to extend this model to other areas in the future so we can reach more children. 



We really need your support to help make this project a success