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Welcome to Hope for Children & Development, Kenya |
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Hope for children and development is a community Based organization founded in the year 2000 with a mandate to provide hope for orphans and vulnerable children, women and the community at large. Our drive is to empower members of the community to realize their dreams and potential in life through interventions programs that advocate for the rights of the vulnerable groups and mitigates the impact of HIV and AIDS.
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Support for AIDS orphans
Specific assistance programs have taken dozens of forms. HCD work with village volunteers and local groups of all kinds in responding to their own communities' HIV/AIDS issues. Care for children infected with HIV/AIDS is one of the challenging task that the organization undertake. The infected children get better meals as they are assigned to community health workers who come from the local organization which we partner with to ensure that this children get ARVS.
HCD helps AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children through several means including, education,Food and psycho-social support.
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HIV/AIDS 
Kenya is home to one of the world’s harshest HIV and AIDS epidemics. An estimated 1.5-2 million people are living with HIV; around 1.2 million children have been orphaned by AIDS; and in 2006 85,000 people died from AIDS related illnesses.
Kenya’s HIV prevalence peaked during 2000 and, according to the latest figures, has dramatically reduced to around 6.3 percent. This decline is thought to be partially due to an increase in education and awareness, and high death rates.
Many people in Kenya are still not being reached with HIV prevention and treatment services. Only 1 in 5 children needing treatment are receiving it. This demonstrates Kenya still has a long way to go in providing universal access to HIV treatment, prevention and care.
Kenya’s HIV epidemic has been categorized as generalized – meaning that HIV affects all sectors of the population. Nearly half of all new infections were transmitted during heterosexual sex whilst in a relationship and 20 percent during casual heterosexual sex.
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