Nyumbani Children's Home — Nairobi, Kenya

Nyumbani Children's Home was the first home for AIDS and HIV-positive orphans in Kenya. It provides the best available nutritional, medical, psychosocial, academic and spiritual care to more than 100 children, and it is truly an inspiration to visit. Two-thirds of the children, ranging in age from newborns to 23, are now on life-prolonging anti-retroviral therapy. A&K Philanthropy and A&K Kenya are providing essential medicines to help Nyumbani meet this specific need.

In collaboration with Friends of Conservation and the indigenous tree planting project at Olonana Camp in the Masai Mara, support is also helping meet a need of the home's Lea Toto extension program by providing seedlings to plant in the slums of Nairobi. Established to reach out to HIV-positive children within slum communities in Nairobi, Lea Toto now provides 3,000 HIV-positive children and an estimated 15,000 family members with high-quality home care.