Jifahamu Kenya Foundation P.O BOX 8959-00200 Nairobi Western Province Kenya 725245224 info[AT]jifahamu.org www.jifahamu.org
Jifahamu Kenya Foundation is a network of young People in Kenya Living Positively with HIV/AIDS and those who may not be HIV+ but has a passion of spreading the word on AIDS and its effects to the youth. They have taken the Initiative of Informing other Kenyans to go and know their status.

They are involved in the areas bellow:
• Training & offering Home based care services
• Vocational training, product development & Marketing.
• Feeding program & short term food relief to vulnerable families
• Voluntary Counseling & awareness services (VAS)
• Facilitate Post Test / Support group therapy meetings
• Child Care & child education sponsorship
Support the youths Know that getting infected do not mean that all their dreams are infected as well. they can still achieve their dreams and therefore Jifahamu Kenya foundation Helps Young people get into business ventures by providing them with necessary training and financial needs to start such a venture, hence involving them in a gainful activity regardless of the situation.
• Medical assistance & support

We want you who have devoted yourself to the care and healing of others, to know the importance of your devotion.
Not all in the HIV/AIDS arena will trust you; not all will support me; but what matters is that we act wisely, do best whatever you undertake to do.
And whoever you are, male or female; do what you do best and stop the spread of AIDS. Our aims then, as today, were aimed at meeting the needs of HIV infected young people and their families.
These needs include creating:
• Opportunity to ask many young people in Kenya and Africa to take time, go to a testing center and know their status. This will help them Living Knowing their status and hence easy to know proper upkeep mechanisms regardless of the results
• Hope and purpose in their lives,
• Avoid fast spread of the virus among the youth
• Opportunity to contribute to their own and others welfare
• Advocacy for respect and protection of their rights and dignity as human beings.
• Friendlier, conducive and enabling environment.
• Empowerment on the subject women to take charge of their lives, care and destiny.
• Opportunity to play a front role in controlling the spread of the disease not as recipients, clients or patients but as equal partners in the struggle.
• Forum for mothers to prepare their youth well in advance for possible consequences of their health status including possibility of their death.

INTERVENTION STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION
Offering care and support to the infected youths:

HIV/Aids counseling (crisis, coping, pre-test and post-test, among others on one to one basis)
Helping young people get to know their status, that is really what is Killing many of us, ignorance to know our status, making the spread of the disease rapid from partner to partner hence forming a life cycle

Group counseling

Medical treatment of opportunistic infections and referral

Home based care for the bed-ridden

Home visits for affected families.

Hospital visits for the in-patients

Mobilizing resources to alleviate poverty.

Income generating Activities.
Advocacy, Education and community mobilization

This involves youth drama groups, puppetry, dances and road shows in community forums.

Liaising with government in policies development and strategic planning in the war against Aids.

Networking and collaboration with other relevant stake holders in Aids epidemic.

Educating and creating awareness in workplaces, schools, colleges, religious institutions etc.

Participation in local and international relevant forums.

Involving people living with aids as resource persons including sharing their true experience of living with HIV infection.

Aids orphans support program
Under this programme we provide:

Psychosocial support to children and youth who have lost their parents to the epidemic.

Material support (clothes, food and shelter)

Healing memory books – where we encourage mothers to prepare their children in advance before succumbing to full-blown Aids or Death e.g. Will, future custodian, family history, and future dream of the mother to the child among others.
In all our activities we aim at benefiting the infected youths and helping them get to achieve their dreams. CDF, friends contributions