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Salvation Army Kenya Psycho-Social Support

Strategic Focus: Emotional & Social Support, Economic Empowerment
Where: Kenya
SA Kenya PSS

HOPEHIV has worked with the Salvation Army in Kenya since 2003, training talented young community volunteers to set up and lead weekly kids clubs. They use play and sport to help orphaned and vulnerable children make friends. For many children, the club also enables them to deal with the loss of their parents, and trained volunteers provide counselling and support.

Over 100 clubs have been set up across Kenya with up to 200 children attending each one weekly. Trained volunteers also make home and school checks. HOPEHIV is now assisting the clubs to meet more of the basic needs of orphans through developing small income generating activities.

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We see hope in Cosma.

Cosma is 23. When he was 19, he was living in Kampala, Uganda and because he hadn’t finished school, was only able to get casual jobs. His pastor told him about Net2Work, an IT skills course run by HOPEHIV partner Oasis. After he finished the course, he and a fellow graduate opened an e-academy at their church. Oasis spotted his potential and asked him to be a trainer for the new Net2Work course for former child soldiers in Gulu, in the war-torn north of the country.

Cosma told us, ‘This work in Gulu has given me joy and hope. I was initially fearful of coming to Gulu as I had heard all these stories of the atrocities. When I arrived the students seemed rude but I saw they were just traumatized young people who needed me to build a relationship with them.’ Cosma uses part of his salary to pay his younger brother’s school fees. In 2008 one of his 150 Gulu graduates became a teacher at the newly opened Net2Work academy for former child soldiers in Pader.

Find out more about Net2Work.