http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic4ZaVFzKMY.....helpQty musician from Kenya QTY FOUNDATION PROFILE
The Qty Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing HIV infection and eliminating AIDS through education, community empowerment, prevention, care, and treatment programs. Founded in 2009, Qty Foundation works in Kibera and Kangemi slums. Our vision is that all members of the communi
ty, especially women, children and young people, fulfill their potential whilst managing HIV/AIDS effectively. We specialize in educational workshops, celebratory events and specifically targeted projects (e.g. Condom
MISSION
Our mission is to empower women infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to take control of their own health and to live as fully and as productively as possible thus ensuring their childrens future. Qty Foundation provides prevention education, advocacy, IGAS (Income generating Activities) and food support for women at risk or living with HIV in the Kibera and Kangemi Slum areas. Goal 1
To reduce the degree of parent incapacitation and death as a result of HIV/AIDS. Objective 1.1
To provide mothers in Kangemi and Kibera with relevant information regarding HIV/AIDS Management and prevention. Objective 1.2
To assist mothers in Kangemi and Kibera in learning how to effectively apply HIV/AIDS Management, Prevention Health and Nutrition information in helping them and their young children to be more healthy. Objective 1.3
To teach mothers in Kangemi and Kibera how to evaluate changes in the health of their young children. Objective 1.3
Mobilize food donations to the most affected families
Goal 2
To effectively use resident volunteers as a major factor in helping people to learn. Objective 2.1
To recruit a group of resident youth to become volunteers in various community projects. Objective 2.2
To provide a 4 week training program for the volunteers that covers
a) basic HIV/AIDS Management, Prevention Health and Nutrition information for mothers and
b) information on adult teaching methods. Objective 2.3
To place the volunteers in the communities to offer condom distribution, tutoring and VCT services to local mothers. Objective 2.4
To develop comprehensive volunteer outreach systems
Long term goals
1. Obtain land and build community centers in Kibera and Kangemi for promoting
HIV/AIDS Education and IGAS projects.
2. Establish sustainable IGAS projects
3. Put up facilities that go along in serving the child and mother such as a clinic,a vocational training, a sewer system and a borehole.
4. To further involve the community towards project participation. PROJECTS
Kibera/ Kangemi Food Supplementation program
Because the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) predominantly attacks people of childbearing age, its impact on children, extended families, and communities is devastating. When a parent dies of AIDS, his or her child is three times more likely to die – even when that child is HIV negative. Besides facing an increased risk of death, children whose parents have died due to HIV/AIDS also confront stigmatization, rejection and a lack of love and care. They often suffer from emotional distress, malnutrition, a lack of health care, and poor or no access to education. AIDS orphans are also at high risk for labor exploitation, s*x trafficking, homelessness, and exposure to HIV. Increasingly, extended families and communities in highly affected areas find that their resources are inadequate to provide the basics for all needy children. In slum communities hard hit by the double hammer of HIV/AIDS and poverty, there are millions of children who may not be orphans, but who have been made more vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Children whose parents are ill with HIV/AIDS might not receive the care and support they require. In extreme cases, roles in the household may be reversed and the children may become their parents’ caregivers, often dropping out of school and becoming the breadwinner. Research indicates that these children, caring for sick and dying parents, are the most vulnerable of all. The most straightforward way to meet the needs of vulnerable children is to keep their parents alive and well and thus prevent the children from becoming orphans. Qty Foundation through its nutritional supplementation program seeks to address this problem. It is utilized as a mobilizing instrument to get music artists and their fans and well wishers to contribute to improving the lives of families in Kibera and Kangemi affected or infected with HIV/AIDS through contribution of foodstuffs, toiletries and social care by interacting with them. Condom distribution
Though condoms are readily available at major health centres, their use in the slum areas is very minimal. The main cause of this is education on correct use and lack of adequate access to supply of condoms. Through its condom distribution program Qty Foundation takes advantage of its network of celebrity musicians and community volunteers to educate and distribute free condoms youth through forums for youth and women utilizing celebrity guests to attract them to venues. This method ensures effective pe*******on of condoms in these areas and thus encourage its use. Celebrity Outreach Program
Qty Foundations celebrity outreach program brings together celebrity personalities from different backgrounds including music, television, corporate world and NGO world in an effort to reach the youth and community stakeholders in the “language” they best understand and can relate to. It also serves as a forum for encouragement to those living with HIV/AIDS to pursue life to the fullest without letting the ailment to put them down. Celebrity Outreach Programs have proved to be very effective forums for bringing youth together and inspiring behavioral change especially in condom use. QTY’s STORY
QTY aka Jennifer Lusichi is a versatile musician who has her ambitions of becoming one of the greatest music performers on the world stage from East Africa. The music bug bit her quite early and she starred in various school plays and recitals and achieving podium finishes on the National stage. She has worked with Ogopa DJs on the song "Get Closer" released in April 2009 which received favorable airplay on Kenyan radio and TV
stations. She then did "Zunguka" a song that was released in October
2009; video done by acclaimed video director Pinch’d with MAICH BLAQ
and the HERBALIST as the producer and was a big hit in Kenya and the
greater East Africa. She has done other songs which are five star
rated including CRAZY, GET CLOSER the REMIX with hot male musician
from Kenya, KENRAZY whose videos was done by boomba video , CAME BACK
TO ME song done by MAICH BLACK AND THE HERBALIST, PAPARAZI by V6 and video was done by the creative J BLESSING, DeeJay among others. She has received awesome reviews and is a regular feature in the Nation’s premiere urban entertainment magazines "Pulse", “buzz” “Insyder” among other East African plat forms where she is regarded as one of the best female artists to emerging in Kenya (Uganda pulse termed her “Kenya’s Next Diva”) and was nominated CHAT Awards Brand New Artist of the Year 2011
Apart from her extreme talent in music, Qty has a heart for women and children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and is actively involved with a charity organizations in these area. Her involvement in charity was inspired by the demise of her sister from complications arising from HIV/AIDS infection. Unable to assist her sister Qty resolved to do all in her power to learn about HIV/AIDS and to use her music talent and fame to fan HIV/AIDS Awareness drives. She was made Jifahamu’s AMBASSADOR for HIV and AIDS AWARENESS as a result of her tireless efforts to promote HIV/AIDS awareness especially in disadvantaged communities of kibera and kangemi slums. She established Qty foundation in 2009 to help facilitate her awareness work. Qty foundation brings together various talented persons in music to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and condom awareness prevalence hence
influence the youth to take responsibility of their lives and to help
children orphaned through HIV/AIDS. Towards this initiative, she
produced the documentary Music For Change. Music for Change documents her journey taking care of a loved one living with HIV/AIDS and highlights her goals as ambassador for HIV/AIDS Awareness campaigns. The documentary was giving recognition by its nomination for NOLA Awards. Qty believes in doing today what you can when you can to the best of your ability to help the needy. BOX 63068 - 00200
NAIROBI
Kenya
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+254726 641 014
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Jenifer ‘Qty’ Lusichi
QTY FOUNDATION
[email protected]
www.qtyfoundation.org
