Not far from Nakuru game park lies Nakuru City

Kenya’s Nakuru region is known by many Westerners for its lakeside game park.

But a fifteen-minute drive east of the lake— beyond the wildlife, hay-colored grass, and scrubby acacia trees— is Nakuru city.

Five years ago the city reported a 35 per cent incidence of HIV. And herein lies the principal backdrop of AIM’s Nakuru AIDS Initiative. Today AIM is working through local believers in Nakuru Region, supporting:

Twelve voluntary Counseling and Testing Centres (VCTs)
Affordable AIDS testing and Christ-centred counselling

The Hope for Life Feeding Program
Kenyan development worker Josephine Kiarii provides daily Bible lessons, a meal, and counselling for 100 vulnerable or orphaned children. She also offers support to their guardians.

Hope for Life Vocational Training
For unemployed youth, Kiarii teaches tailoring, plumbing, hairdressing, electronics, knitting and painting. Graduates are now contributing members of the community.

Training for teachers and church members
Ranging from micro finance, conservation farming, to Why Wait? – a character -based curriculum for the schools – Nakuru AIDS Initiative is helping train others to make a difference. 

A Shelter for Girls at the Nakuru Dump Site
The women of Nakuru Region are committed to rehabilitating 15 girls who live off the garbage in Nakuru’s Dump Site.

Home-Based Care re for HIV/AIDS sufferers
AIM trains pastors, church members and youth to organize HIV/AIDS support groups. These groups not only help those infected to live positively, but link sufferers to a greater church family.

Read more about Parkview AIC, one church that's making a difference in Nakuru region.