KENWA’s executive director Asunta Wagura was only 22 and just beginning her studies at Nairobi Medical School in Kenya, when she was diagnosed as being HIV-positive.

Expelled from school and shunned by her family, she was sent home and given just six months to live.  "My family would not come near me or talk to me.  I was banished to my room and left alone to die,” she remembers. “

"At the beginning I was in shock. Then I was in anger, anger mounted to heartbreak, heartbreak to grief, grief to surrender and acceptance.  Then, I decided it was time to take action against HIV/AIDS.”

In 1993, she and four other HIV-positive women founded KENWA, a grassroots community-based organization.  Its humble mission—to improve the quality of life for women with AIDS and their children.  KENWA gained NGO (nongovernmental organization) status in 1998.  Now it provides life-supporting services to 6951 people.

KENWA FACTS AND LINKS


CONTACT US

Executive Director: Asunta Wagura (Nairobi, Kenya)
Email: Information
Director of Operations: Debra Sale Wendler (Austin, Texas)
Email: Director of Operations
Telephone: 254-20-8566366 or Mobile +254-721-386921 (outside Kenya)
8566366 or 0721386921 (inside Nairobi)
Mailing Address: KENWA
P.O BOX 10001, 00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Delivery Address: KENWA hse
Nairobi, Kenya

Regular mail is not reliable (even if registered). We use Air Parcel Express 877-597-0258 (toll free)

KENWA runs extensive programs from the following community care centers:

Muthaiga (Garden Estate)–Nairobi (Head office)

Soweto–Nairobi (Embakasi constituency)

Korogocho–Nairobi (Kasarani constituency)

Kiandutu–Thika (Central Province)

Mathare– Nairobi (Starehe constituency)

Mjini–Murang’a childrens home (Central Province)

Kiambiu–Nairobi (Kamukunji constituency)

Kiawara–Nyeri (Central Province)

KENWA'S UK affiliate: Izabella Tolowinska (London, England)
Email: KENWA UK

To volunteer at KENWA kindly visit this link: volunteer & internship in opportunities in Kenya

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