Projects:

To effectively implement projects, Wisuvie SHG actively involves the beneficiaries as well as the community members in project implementation and evaluation.

Since our inception,with the help of the community and development partners such as UNICEF, National AIDS Control Council (NACC), Post Bank-Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture-Kenya, PEPFAR (VAST) Poverty Eradication Network (PEN), AMREF Zingatia Maisha Project, we have achieved the following:

• Given continued support and care (provision of food, school uniform, medication, shelter) to orphans and vulnerable children
• Formed 19 HIV/AIDS awareness clubs in primary and secondary schools in Kangundo constituency.
• Started a vocational training center for orphans.
• Conducted community outreach sessions, reaching community with A.B.C messages.
• Trained HIV/AIDS peer educators.
• Initiated poverty alleviation and horticultural projects aimed at uplifting the social well-being of group members, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
  

Most recently in 2009, funding from AMREF Maanisha Program, has enabled us to:

• Provide uniforms, books and pay fees for 12 OVCs in secondary schools as well as Wisuvie skills training school;
• Train 30 grandmothers on issues related to their grandchildren's HIV/AIDS ARV Adherence, Disclosure, Nutrition, and Home-Based Care; Assist the grandmothers to create a Support Group;
• Initiate Amaranth seed-planting activities to provide food to meet the orphans' nutritional needs.
  

With the help of Maanisha funds we hope to conduct skills training for 30 community members (including some Wisuvie members) within the next coming weeks, after which we will initiate an IGA for Children Living with HIV.