Ndima Women Against Poverty (NWAP) is a women-led Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and non-profit NGO based in Karatina, Nyeri country, the Republic of Kenya. It was founded by a group of women from different background allover Nyeri Country in February 2005. UWAP was initially known as Karatina Women Saving Group (KWSG). The creation of Ndima Women Against Poverty (NWAP) was tend to respond to
the recurrent problems observed in the community in the area of Education (especially women’s education), Economic empowerment, Environment, Health and Advocacy on women’s rights. Ndima Women Against Poverty (NWAP) is willing to carry out a number of behavior change workshops and/or training in order to promote public awareness on HIV/AIDS which is devastating the world and advocacy for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the health sector. Ndima Women Against Poverty (NWAP) wants to work with the young people (girls and boys), teenagers in particular and other groups at risk to succeed this struggle in communities. Ndima Women Against Poverty (NWAP) was the first and yet the only women-led organization that is working directly on changing the behavior and the attitudes of the HIV/AIDS and STIS of the communities but funding and other resources shortage limits its capacity to achieve its plan. As the organization works significantly with poor women and girls on the ground, despite the lack of funds, the need for dealing with other human life issues such as women’s / girl’s education, mother-child health, sexual and reproductive health, motherhood, environmental health, Gender Based Violence (GBV), Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM)… is highly observed and should be dealt with as well as the HIV/AIDS issues in order to give beneficiaries hope for a better future and make Kenya a place where women can live without fear of tomorrow.
