Education · Healthcare

New Hope – AINA

A safe home, quality education, and healthcare for HIV-positive children and the greater community in Meru since 2008.

Founded 2008 · Meru, Kenya

Home. School. Community.

Founded in 2008, New Hope – AINA provides healthcare, education, and housing to HIV-positive children and the greater community. Under the guidance of AINA (The Italian Association of Nomads of Love), the home currently cares for over 100 HIV-positive children in a safe, loving environment.

In partnership with the non-profit organization DREAM, New Hope – AINA provides outpatient care to residents and over 600 individuals in the local community. Paolo Academy, New Hope – AINA’s primary school, serves our children and an additional 350 students from the surrounding community.

Children in care at New Hope – AINA

Community members receiving outpatient care

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Community students at Paolo Academy

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Largest home for HIV-positive children in Kenya

Est. 2008

Our Work

Education, healthcare, and a path forward

Working in collaboration with AINA and DREAM, March to the Top provides financial and operational support to New Hope – AINA. As the largest home for HIV-positive children in Kenya, we seek to empower youth with the knowledge, skill sets, and medical care necessary to become happy, healthy, productive members of their communities.

Our support has funded dormitory construction, clinic facilities, the Paolo Academy school building, solar panel installation, and the Sunshine Fund — a secondary school scholarship for graduating students.

Why It Matters

89,000 adults and 11,000 children infected with HIV in Kenya every year

Many HIV-positive children have been abandoned by their families and communities and have nowhere else to go. In serving both these children and the broader community, New Hope – AINA continues to reduce the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS while providing a safe, productive environment for every child in its care.

Every student who graduates, every patient who receives care, and every child who finds a home here is proof that stigma can be overcome — and that community-centered care works.

I took my children to visit the New Hope Orphanage in Kenya and it touched our hearts. March to the Top does incredible work, with love and transparency.

— Brian Grazer

Support the children of New Hope – AINA

100% of your donation reaches the children, staff, and programs at New Hope – AINA. The March family covers all overhead costs.