Nyumbani Village
Nyumbani Village is Kenya’s sustainable HIV community.
On a 1,000 acres, Nyumbani Village is our most ambitious project yet. Up to 1,000 children and 100 grandparents displaced by the HIV pandemic live in small cottage units as families.
Nyumbani Village provides a stable home for the most vulnerable. It is envisioned as a temporary home, a haven for healing, growth, and self-reliance until its children and grandparents can return home.
The village was completed in 2006, the realization of Nyumbani Founder Father Angelo D’Agostino and Sister Mary Owens’s dream of creating a holistic model of caring for the whole child. Villagers receive comprehensive medical care, Kenyan education, vocational education, psychosocial support, shelter, and food. Our emphasis is on nutrition, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency while respecting local cultural traditions.a
We are a village of families
Children go to school. They excel at soccer, participate in music and drama festivals, and many learn vocational trades they can take back to their villages and rely on for a lifetime.
But we also are pioneers, and innovators.
Nyumbani Village is the first sustainable village for HIV orphans in Kenya. Our vibrant community is a model for innovative green technology and building methods.
Nyumbani Village is on the way to be self sustaining, from farm produce to forest sustainability projects.
Permanent change is possible
Even in poverty-stricken, dry areas of Africa with chronic HIV/AIDS crisis, it is possible to reclaim the land, live in a safe, durable shelter, and have enough food to eat and water to drink.
Nyumbani Village changes lives for the better. When villagers return to their homes they are healthier and better equipped to successfully reintegrate.