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. Here in Nakuru, AIM is working through local believers 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 150 vulnerable or orphaned children. She also offers support to their guardians.

Hope for Life Vocational Training
For unemployed youth, Josephine offers training in 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 It Take Courage! – a character-based curriculum for young people – 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 who run the Upatanisho (Restoration) Girls' Shelter are committed to the vision expressed in the home's name. Their goal is to see twelve girls, their families and the entire dump site community restored to a right relationship with God, each other, and the land.

Home-Based Care 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.

Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
Still living in harsh conditions since the 2008 post-election violence, Nakuru AIDS Initiative is using transformational development principles and microfinance training to help the IDPs use local resources to provide for their families.

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

Donate online by including the following project description: "Nakuru AIDS"

To contribute by mail, make checks payable to Africa Inland Mission with a separate note indicating "Nakuru AIDS" and mail to:

Africa Inland Mission
1641 Victoria Park Ave.
Scarborough, ON M1R1P8