We seek to raise a health community free of diseases and unnecessary health. Our project seeks to support all orphans and vulnerable children. ELAND offers educational Programs on HIV/AIDS in an effort to increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Maasai community and to decrease the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. We educate community members about the basic facts of HIV/AIDS, as well as prevention strategies. ELAND encourage community members to get tested for the disease.

• Support orphans and vulnerable children
• Teach infected women how to prevent mother-to-transmission
• Provide care for people living with HIV/AIDS
• Give vulnerable families income-generating skills

Integrated Orphan and Vulnerable Children(OVC) Support Project

The HIV/AIDS scourge is visiting incredible suffering  upon children, and declining the quality of their life living them orphaned and vulnerable to the vagaries of other socio-economic situations such as the prevailing poverty levels and risky cultural beliefs and practices.The resultant state of orphan hood for over 24,000 children in the County means loss of parental love, protection and guidance, poor nutrition and health, increased poverty, violation of children's inheritance rights, stigma and denial, unprecedented psychological trauma, primary and high school drop-out and low retention rates coupled with poor completion rates.

Within the historical context of the Maasai community, an orphan is a child who has lost his/her father, not his/her mother. The community is a patriarchal society in which the man wields cultural, spiritual and economic power and access to wealth creation resources. There were traditional and cultural systems for taking care of an expected small number of OVC. Theses systems have been rendered ineffective by the high number of OVC resulting from the effects of HIV/AIDS, increased poverty in the community and rapidly changing family and social structures and norms.

The Integrated OVC support project (IOS) has been designed by ELAND to sustainably address the priority needs of orphaned and vulnerable children(OVC) among the Maasai community of Kenya in Kajiado County through strengthening of OVC care and support systems at both the family and community Levels.

Today Kajiado County is home to over 24,743 OVC (5.2% of the population) in the 0-10 years age bracket a lone in a population of about 687,312. 24% (164,955) of the population is under 15 years. About 81% (20,042) of the OVC directly to AIDS and the rest (19%) to other causes.