Our Programs
Nyumbani Children’s Home
Nyumbani Children’s Home provides life-saving care and a loving home to more than 100 HIV-positive children in Kenya. Ages newborn to 23, the children live at the Children’s Home until they are healthy and self-reliant.
Nyumbani Village
Nyumbani Village is Kenya’s sustainable HIV community. On more than 1,000 acres, Nyumbani Village is our most ambitious project yet. Up to 1,000 children and 100 grandparents displaced by the Kenya HIV epidemic live in small cottage units as families.
Nyumbani Diagnostic Laboratory
Nyumbani operates a state-of-the-art laboratory. Through generous support from donors around the world, we opened our world-class Nyumbani Diagnostic Laboratory in 2011. A modern, internationally accredited laboratory gives Nyumbani scientists and medical staff high-tech tools to better diagnose and treat Kenya’s HIV patients. The on-site laboratory allows more accurate and faster HIV diagnosis and testing.
Nyumbani Lea Toto Community Outreach
In 1998, Nyumbani realized that it needed to expand its reach to help more HIV-positive children and their families. This led to the creation of the Lea Toto program, a community-based outreach program that provides services to HIV-positive children and their families. Lea Toto provided services to families with HIV positive children in the main informal settlements of Nairobi and its environs.
Lea Toto grew from its first location in Kangemi to cover the following informal settlement areas in Nairobi: Kawangware, Kibera, Kariobangi, Dandora, Zimmerman, Dagoretti and Mukuru. Lea Toto provided quality medical care, nutritional support and counseling services for over 3,500 HIV positive children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and supported over 15,000 OVCs cumulatively. Due to the global economic crisis and dwindling financial support, Lea Toto concluded its operations in February 2024.