 Kenya woujano iisutiga kuaitiyo. Rurin'u india kutia uzihi kwaisha wakilisama, lehiyo iisutiga kuaisha kwaisha, wakilii, wakilii, bininiko takutida. Kwaisha miida ngape, hiruwali Kationali Kenya wakilii kutia, hiruwa kukafia, wakilii wakilii, uzihi isuja ngape. Sia kup ultrasound kwaisha 1 milion kataluntipa. Kenya wakilisana pasana jaide maresi kwaisha. The HIV and AIDS pandemic has worsened the scenario given that the active age group are the most infected and affected. Western province has one of the highest population growth records, estimated at 2.7% annually, which is above the national average of 2.4%. 56% of the families live below the poverty line and survive on less than one US dollar daily, making the fight against HIV and AIDS a major challenge. Income-generating activities which could improve the livelihood security of households with chronically ill members are inadequate. The mega household incomes mean that families cannot afford basic needs or save money for development. These problems are further compounded by gender disparities and discourse taboos, which reduce the role of women to that of housekeeping, childbearing and providing labour to the very firms to which they cannot claim ownership. Illiteracy, particularly among women and girls, means they cannot compete with their male counterparts for job opportunities, thus rendering them vulnerable to prostitution as a means of social and economic development. Mr. James Onyango, founder and executive director of Kaipik, has worked with the local community to encourage them to help themselves. Each individual and group working with Kaipik plans and implements their own program of action. Kaipik, Kenya AIDS intervention prevention project group was created out of a need to tackle the problem of HIV and AIDS holistically. When a group of people came together in 1996 and decided to form the organization as a support group of people living with AIDS and this organization over the years has been evolving and to date Kaipik is reaching close to 30,000 people every year. While AIDS remains a major problem in Kenya, it is often the women and girls who bear the brand of the pandemic. They have no rights to own property such as land and are psychologically at the increased risk of contracting HIV. They are less educated and many are unemployed. This means they cannot afford to eat well or buy medicine when they fall ill. Kaipik programs range from home-based care for persons living with HIV and AIDS. We have programs that tackle nutrition for families affected with HIV and AIDS. We have programs that tackle the problem of orphans which is a major problem in the community today. We address the needs of the orphans ranging from schooling needs to psychological needs at home and also needs in terms of medication. The goal of Kaipik home-based care and support for persons living with HIV and AIDS is to improve the quality of life by strengthening community and household capacity to mobilize, co-ordinate and care for people living with HIV and AIDS in their homes. We have programs that are not yet available to the public and some citizens are not supposed to use these programs. We have programs in the community which will lead to health benefits because it has been provided for primary care for the people living with HIV and HIV. We also have programs where people die of HIV and are allowed to go to Kaipik to work. This is achieved through training family members and volunteers on nutrition, nursing care, hygiene and how to protect themselves and others from HIV infections and diseases such as tuberculosis. Kipage promotes comprehensive home based care to provide for the medical, emotional, psychological, physical needs of people living with AIDS and address the stigma and discrimination faced by the infected and the affected. In Kenya, an estimated 1.5 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Kipage ofans support and impact mitigation program aims to economically, socially and academically empower ofans, other vulnerable children, youth and women in particular. HIV and AIDS have greatly affected full production and reduced families ability to provide proper nutrition for those infected, yet a balance that is critical for the well being of people living with HIV or AIDS. Most farmers focus on cash crops like sugarcane farming at the expense of food crops. More than three quarters of all arable land is taken up by sugarcane. Kipage ofans support and impact mitigation program aims to address the nutritional status of people living with HIV and AIDS and children from vulnerable households. Kipage ofans support and impact mitigation program aims to improve overall food security of the whole communities. This is achieved through training widows, older orphans and other community members in food production. The project also runs a community-based nutritional field school. In today's world, access to information is critical to empowering communities, but most rural areas in western Kenya lack essential communication facilities. The road network is dilapidated. There is neither electricity, modern communication facilities such as telephone, internet and email are missing. Furthermore, there are no libraries or information resource centers within the rural areas where communities can access much needed information such as that on markets for the agricultural produce or other opportunities. To fill these gaps, Kipage started a program to promote information communication technology ICT. The program empowers communities in gender-based, human rights advocacy and gives them access to technology-based information, education and communication. This is achieved mainly through training. Other areas include photography, video production, tape recording, use of mobile phones and use of drama, radio, TV and oral tradition as tools of learning, education and development. Kipage works in partnership with community groups, NGOs and professional organizations, faith-based organizations, volunteers, government agencies and other development partners. The organization gets support from various foundations and trusts, both local and international, the government agencies and other community groups. Another self-help group that helps to improve the status of people in western Kenya is Ikonzo Musando. The objective is to improve the environment by planting trees and beekeeping as an income generating activity. The project has initiated three nurseries where the local people are trained on conservation of environment. The main source is actually trees. We must have trees of various kinds in our community so that if we aren't a developer then we are dealing with planting of trees. And that's how we created this project. First of all we must get various types of trees that we were able to plant in our community. This plant of trees is called moringa olivera. The moringa olivera is very useful for people who are HIV positive and even those who have other ailments. This leaves are very important for treatment and they can be used on any patient to give some nutritional support in the body. Decided that they should have a tree nursery while others like the beekeeping program is being done at other schools down there. The school is playing a role of training. If we pick agriculture to teach beekeeping in the class, then that knowledge is needed for the land in the class. They should also apply it to manage their beekeeping as a farmer, knowledge of the farmer and the member of the family. So that you find that the knowledge gained in the class should be able to be applied directly to the community as a farmer. Mama hwe hala, yuhu lulambo, hwe hala tinyatina, hwe hala angesa kaya tawa, loma siya wedi siya ho. Sakira hua parambu, nubula hino kwa kanyolahu projekte hwe, hwe henduhi hino, hwe hala mama sekundi, yuhu lakama kum naseta hwe. Kupiya kuna miradi mungi nambu hometu letia ICT ya kubali siya mahozo himebidu. Mahozo kutoka vikundizi gina nambu hupiya kuna yuhu mehadriwa. Tukajiwa kwele siyo sii pekehetu kupiti ya kai pinchi. Sana, sana, hini kai bikini risa hidi ya kwa sababu. Niki kondi ya kata na watutu yung, huna kata na watutu apu kutoka kuwa. Sana, sana. Naata kama nina vudu mehtengi na kitoka kuwa mungi nambu hometu wa hali ya mungi nambu kutoka kuwa, pekehetu na watutu apu kutoka kuwa mungi nambu hupiya kutoka. We are envisioning a situation where we scale up our programs to cover most of the country because there is already need for that and there is interest in that scale up process. And that is why we kaipi need funds to scale up the nutritional problem to reach more children, to reach more people that need to know about its information and its programs through the information, communication, technology program. We also would like to reach more families with our care services, mobilize more families to go to VCT centers and this would require that we scale up, we train more trainers, scale up our program, build a strong staff to support the community efforts, really have a program that is having an impact on people.