Staff
philip Orude
Dream Coordinator
Wicklife Orero
Dream Coordinator
Evelyn Omenya
Dream Coordinator
DREAMS
DREAMS
Pamoja CBO, through a sub-grant from the Henry Jackson Foundation (HJF), receives funding from the US Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to implement The ‘DREAMS’ project which stands for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe lives.
This project supports the scale-up of combination HIV/AIDS prevention services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Kisumu, Kenya.
The program’s main objective is to reduce/eliminate new HIV infection among AGYW.
The services for AGYW fall under the following four categories outlined in the DREAMS comprehensive package of services:
- Services that directly empower AGYW
- Services that mobilize communities to support and protect AGYW
- Services that strengthen AGYW’s families
- Services that target AGYW male sexual partners to decrease the risk of acquiring HIV
Pamojapamoja CBO
- Behavior Change Communication through Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs) such as Healthy Choices for a Better Future (HCBF), My Health My Choice (MHMC) and Families Matter Program I &II.
2. Biomedical
- HIV Education, Counseling, and testing services.
- Risk reduction counseling.
- GBV screening and subsequent Post Violence Care.
- STI Screening, family planning, Condom promotion, education, and provision.
- Pre and Post post-exposure prophylaxis for young women.
- Education Subsidies to those in school.
3. Structural
- Education Subsidies to those in school.
- Combination Socio-Economic Approaches Support including; Financial capability training, entrepreneurship training, vocational skills training, and linkage to employment.
- Social Asset Building.
