MissionHARAMBEE (“all pull together” in Swahili) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization helping those in sub-Saharan Africa affected by HIV. We do this in a variety of ways:
1. education here and in Africa to raise awareness.
2. health care initiatives using medical and lay volunteers.
3. microeconomics projects giving women & children a “hand up”
to care for themselves without relying on a handout.
4. marketing craft items made by co-op work groups
& accepting donations for our projects.
5. building communication bridges between school groups
here and in Africa.
HARAMBEE promotes partnership with those we want to help. The height of empowerment
is the ability to empower another. Therefore, all projects we adopt require participants to give back to their community. E.g., those who receive a dairy goat give the first-born kid to another family; when teaching oral rehydration therapy for infants, we educate trainers who continue teaching when we have left. We foster good management practices, accountability, and sustainability. We have no overhead, salaries, or advertising costs, and every penny gets squeezed ‘til it begs for mercy.
Project Harambee's Mission
We have HARAMBEE-sponsored groups at three sites in Kenya: Mukuru (a slum outside Nairobi); Upendo Village (in Naivasha, in the country), and Lea Toto clinics (in slums, outreach programs begun by F
May, 2008 mission to Kenya
PROGRAM UPDATE: SPRING, 2008. (Pictures will be added when I can locate our webmaster, who is somewhere traversing the globe.)
4/30/08 Blue Sky Ideas...dare to love dangerously!
The other day I had a bad scare.
New worksites in Zambia
under construction. Please stay tuned.
This image evokes many feelings associated with great need, lack of resources, but sustaining faith and hope.
Back home. UPDATE February, 2008
I’m grateful to have arrived home safe & sound from Nairobi.
Beaded nesting box set of 3, $30
Set of 3 handmade trinket boxes, beautifully hand made from seed-size beads. Various colors, boxes in each set are the same colors. Largest box is about 4 " diameter. $30
 earnProject Harambee supports three groups of HIV+ women. For their work they receive payment that assists with medical care, rent, and children's needs. Speaking EngagementsDr. Kathleen Harrison, founder of Harambee, will present slides and speak to your group about life in Kenya, experiences leading to the formation of Harambee, the HIV+ Kenyan women in the groups, and how you might enjoy expanding your world via travel to Kenya or learning more about life and culture in eastern Africa. To request a free slide show presentation for your group, please contact us . "I am not a business person, I am not a missionary, I am not an entrepeneur. I am a scientist, but first a woman and a mother. My heart broke when I saw the cruelty and destruction wrought on innocent people by HIV. You cannot walk away from those experiences and do nothing. Visiting Kenya touched my soul and changed my life. I will continue to talk and to show my photos--til my last breath--to get help for those people. They are just like you, just like me. They have faces, names, loves, dreams, worries. An accident of birth brought them to a short life with much pain. Each person I saw could just as readily have been you or me." 
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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA HAS 11% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION... BUT 75% OF THE WORLD’S HIV CASES
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