23^rd/ March/2021 marks 6 years since the founder of ARP formed a support group for people living with HIV/AIDS and DRUG addicts in Kenya. In 2014, Mr. Samuel Nalima after a long struggle with alcohol and drugs decided to quit after realizing that all of his life’s work was wasted on alcohol and narcotics yet he had a family he didn’t take care of. While healing, he lost his best friend to HIV/AIDS and this caused him more trauma and depression. He decided to create awareness on the dangers of drugs, alcohol and HIV/AIDS around Nairobi suburbs and he was later joined by other victims some of whom were infected while others had lost friends and family to HIV/AIDS and DRUGS to form a support group which was then registered in 2015 as The AIDS RELIEF PROGRAMME (ARP).

The first clients were patients who had been abandoned by their relatives either on a hospital bed or laying on the grass in the hospital compound where not even health workers were willing to help them. While these patients had different faces, family history and cultural background, they had two things in common, they had a disease and an addiction which made them rejected and discriminated in their communities.

To provide rescue, rights and rehabilitative services to the communities in most need. To offer a safe exit point to women and their children trapped in the crippling cycle of poverty and abuse.

Our vision is a world with no new HIV infections, where people make empowered sexual health choices, and where those living with HIV do so with dignity, good health and equality. We believe in individuals’ inalienable right to health, and their right to make informed choices around their sexual health. We aim for everything we do, and how we do it, to be underpinned by our set of core values: