The Live With Hope Centre is a community based organisation which means that although the Sisters are there to help administer the funding and help with the day to day running, it is really the local people themselves- including those living with HIV- who do the work on the ground. The LWHC was set up in 2002 to deal with the problem of HIV/AIDS in the Kericho area.

Over the years, LWHC has grown into a much bigger project than we could ever have predicted. The ministry we are involved in thrives primarily because of the dedication and commitment of the local people here who work with us to address this huge problem.

• HOME-BASED CARE (HBC)
  Teams of medical staff, social workers, community health workers and counsellors visit the homes of our clients on a regular basis. We now have around five hundred adults in this programme to date. Thanks to PEPFAR, (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) an initiative of the U.S. Government many now benefit from anti-retroviral drugs.

• VOLUNTARY COUNSELLING AND TESTING CENTRE (VCT)
  This building was built by PEPFAR on the grounds of the former convent.
  Anyone is welcome to come and be counselled and tested free of charge.
  This is where we get most of our clients.

• ABSTINENCE AND BEHAVIOUR OF YOUTH (ABY)
  This is our education and prevention programme. It is mainly for youth but we also do outreach to the adults in the community. We visit schools and youth groups and have a very lively group of peer educators who do a great job of promoting abstinence among the youth.
  
  At the moment ten young people are presently being trained to go out to the primary schools with this programme.

• ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN (OVC)
  This is our latest programme which was started just last year to help children orphaned and/or at risk from HIV/AIDS. This supplements our own programme for HIV infected children which was started in 2002. Currently there are around 500 children enrolled in the OVC programme including our own forty HIV positive children.

This project has been blessed by all the support we get from various friends and benefactors from Scotland, Ireland, England, Japan and the U.S. - and to you all we offer you our thanks and our prayers

Our photograph on the right shows Sr Cecilia and Sr Esther with two of the young children.