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The Wholeness Among People Project (WAPIS): WAPIS is a community based organization based in Kiambu District and registered in 2006 with the Ministry of Culture and Social Services. Their mission is to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS especially among the most at risk public transport operators (matatu drivers, conductors and touts). WAPIS works with the Matatu drivers and touts in the Banana area educating them on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, guiding them to seek counseling and testing services and adopt and maintain healthy behaviors to avoid contracting or spreading the disease. The organization supports formation of HIV+ and Recovery support groups for those addicted to substance abuse and or infected by the virus. WAPIS also refers them for treatment.   The organization also conducts community outreach activities that educate community members on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.

Upako Center The Upako center is a community based organization in Kawangware slums of Nairobi registered in 2005 whose mission is to provide HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention, care and support services to infected and affected people of Kawangware slums. Upako Center implements OVC activities at three different interventions: Child level: Upako Center ensures the provision of food/ nutrition, shelter, education, protection and psychosocial support to beneficiary OVC’s. Caregiver/Family Level: Upako center provides caregivers assistance that enables vulnerable children to remain in a loving family situation in which they can maintain stability, care, predictability, and protection. Systems level/Community level: Upako Center works with the local provincial administration officers, local religious leaders and other opinion leaders in the slums of Kawangware to strengthen community structures and networks that support healthy child development and ensure the needs for orphans and vulnerable children are taken care of.

Besides the OVC program, Upako center also provides age and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS, alcohol and substance abuse prevention education to the local community living in Kawangware slums. Prevention approaches implemented by Upako also address the risks of cross-generational and transactional sex through abstinence programs for youth and be faithful programs for men that foster collective social norms that emphasize avoiding risky sexual behavior.

Aniga Women Initiative: The Aniga Women Initiative is a community based organization registered in 2005 and works with widows who brew illegal 80% proof alcohol in rural areas of Kisumu District, Nyanza Province as a source of livelihood. The organization educates them on HIV/AIDS and the relationship between HIV/AIDS and alcohol and substance abuse and supports them to start other alternative sources of income such as crop farming, bee keeping, goat keeping and other small income generation activities that do not expose them to HIV infection. The women are also encouraged to go for HIV testing. Aniga Women Initiative also provides age and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS, alcohol and drug prevention education to youth, women and men and encourages them to go for voluntary counseling and testing. They are also educated HIV related stigma and discrimination reduction. Caring Mothers Group: Caring Mothers Group is a community based organization working in Kilifi District, Coast Province. The organization was registered in 2004 and their mission is to address the problem of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse in Kilifi District particularly among commercial sex workers by .

educating them on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse through prevention education and promote behavior change. The organization strives to increase knowledge on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, stimulate community dialogue, promote advocacy and reduce stigma and discrimination and educate community members on the relationship between alcohol/drug abuse and HIV/AIDS spread. Caring Mothers also facilitates the process of improving the quality of life of vulnerable segments of the population such as commercial sex workers, women, orphans and other vulnerable children among others in Kilifi District who are adversely affected by HIV/AIDS by providing them with skills that empower them to cope with problems caused by the HIV/AIDS.

 Wema Widows Support Group: Wema Widows Support Group is a registered community based organization working in Matunda area of Trans-Nzoia District, Rift Valley province in Kenya. The organization’s mission is to help and support HIV+ women lead positive lives, support HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children and educate community members on HIV/AIDS, alcohol and substance abuse. Wema Widows Group has been offering end of life and bereavement care, psychological care, social care and spiritual forms of palliative care to PLWHA in their program area. The organization has helped 17 HIV+ women join a model “Over -Comers Group”. The group has adopted this motto “Life does not end with being an HIV positive widow, it is just the beginning.” The organization also supports the widows to take care of AIDS orphans and vulnerable children that have been left in their care.