Isiolo Youth Against AIDS and Poverty
Unverified non-profit organisation
Isiolo Youth against Aids and Poverty (IYAP) is a community based organisation operating in the central division of Isiolo District in Kenya. IYAP aims to see ‘a community freed from HIV/AIDS and poverty, thriving in sustainable development’. The organisation engages in lobbying and advocacy, networking and resource mobilization. The primary targets for IYAP’s interventions are young people (in and out of school), women, orphans and vulnerable groups such as commercial sex workers.
Amongst IYAP’s current programmes are an income generating project, a youth friendly VCT which is run by trained HIV counsellors,, a school based HIV/AIDS programme, a commercial sex workers’ project and a gender project.