About us

KASH is the first (1st) organization in the World to bring police officers and members of the KP together to address causes of conflict between the two groups, and work out common solutions..

Your support will help us to make life better living for key populations (KPs).

Registered as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) – Keeping Alive Societies’ Hope (KASH) – to improve the quality of lives of key and marginalized populations. KASH added MSM to its target populations owing to their higher HIV prevalence – reported, then, to be at 43%2. KASH undertook several exciting projects and accumulated skills, know-how, and experiences in HIV response programming, since. FSWs and MSM in Kisumu enjoyed quality and dignified services provided by KASH’s health and justice systems.

Work Area

our scope to 22 counties

We have expanded our scope to 22 counties with different projects under our five strategic pillars (i.e.Integrated Health Services; Human Rights; Economic Empowerment; Governance, Policy and Advocacy; and Organizational Development and Systems Strengthening).

Our Causes

The causes we care about

KASH has continued to focus on human rights, health interventions, and economic empowerment for key populations.

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#Health programs

Education for key and marginalized populations

Under this program, we provide and strengthen delivery of integrated HIV prevention, care and treatment and other related services to members of the key and marginalized populations.

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#Economic Empowerment program

personal incomes of key and marginalized persons

Under this program, we strive to increase personal incomes of key and marginalized persons, through expansion of their economic literacy and sources of income.

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#Human Rights program

Protect and promote the rights of those who are socially excluded

Under this program, we strive to protect and promote the rights of those who are socially excluded and marginalized in the society, due to their gender, sexual orientation, tribe, religion and other discriminative indices

What We Do

A mission to solve a problem

We have a Mission to proactively influence the society to enable key and marginalized populations to access justice, health, good governance and economic empowerment through stakeholder engagements.

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Capacity Building

We have been dedicated at building the capacity of sex workers and MSM so as to have independent and responsible persons, thus reducing their vulnerability to HIV and violence

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Health programs

Our 60 volunteer trained peer educators have helped us reach out to other sex workers, MSM and people who use drugs (PWUDs) who we would have otherwise not reached

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Human Rights Programs

We have 14 trained paralegals who report any human rights violations form time to time in Kisumu, Nyamira and Kakamega counties

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Governance& Civil Rights

With strengthened capacity, ToTs/Civic Champions conduct targeted civic education among the target communities and mobilize them to participate.

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Our Mission

Concern about Our Mission

To proactively influence the society to enable key and marginalized populations to access justice, health, good governance and empowerment through stakeholder engagement, networking, partnerships and collaborations.

A just, healthy and empowered society

To proactively influence the society to enable key and marginalized populations to access justice, health, good governance and empowerment through stakeholder engagement, networking, partnerships and collaborations.

Meet Our Team

Talented Team behind KASH

Tom

Executive Director: He brings into the project over 20 years’ experience in program leadership, advocacy and social marketing. He is strong advocate of the marginalized communities in Kenya and has championed the involvement of law enforcement agents in supporting sexual minorities in Kenya.


Martha

KASH Program Manager: She has over 10 years of programming experience, managing health, human rights and governance projects.She oversees the coordination and administration of all aspects of KASH program work


Jenipher

KASH Finance Manager: She is a CPA-K with over ten (10) years’ experience in managing donor funds. She is passionate about financial compliance for optimal value to the final beneficiaries of the funds received by KASH.

Jenipher

KASH Finance Manager: She is a CPA-K with over ten (10) years’ experience in managing donor funds. She is passionate about financial compliance for optimal value to the final beneficiaries of the funds received by KASH.

Tom

Executive Director

Jenipher

Finance

Martha

Program Manager