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Salvation Army Kenya Psycho-Social Support

Strategic Focus: Emotional & Social Support, Economic Empowerment
Where: Kenya
SA Kenya PSS

HOPEHIV has worked with the Salvation Army in Kenya since 2003, training talented young community volunteers to set up and lead weekly kids clubs. They use play and sport to help orphaned and vulnerable children make friends. For many children, the club also enables them to deal with the loss of their parents, and trained volunteers provide counselling and support.

Over 100 clubs have been set up across Kenya with up to 200 children attending each one weekly. Trained volunteers also make home and school checks. HOPEHIV is now assisting the clubs to meet more of the basic needs of orphans through developing small income generating activities.

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We see hope in Dora.

Dora is 20 and runs her own small tailoring business. People bring her orders and fabric which she makes up into clothes using the sewing machine she received when she graduated from the six month HOPEHIV-funded tailoring course run by the Salvation Army. She says that the entrepreneurship training she received has helped her to plan her sales and think about pricing.

Dora is an orphan and dropped out of secondary school due to lack of fees. She ran away from her village to escape the rebels during the war in Uganda and lived in the internally displaced people’s camp in Lira with a relative for many years. Now she has resettled back in the village as the conflict has come to an end. Her dream is earn enough money to go back and complete school one day.

Find out more about HOPEHIV-funded Salvation Army projects in Uganda.

Names have been changed to protect confidentiality.