Country: Kenya

Organization: Slums Information Development & Resource Centres (SIDAREC)

Idea: Our idea is to come up with livelihoods for young people. This idea involves starting a bakery project. This will not only employ the youth, but provides badly needed nutricious supplemet to people living with HIV/AIDS.

How do you do it: 1. the first step is to train the youth about youth leadership and management.

2. Second one involve training the youth and those who are affected on business management and simple book-keeping.

3. The third step is training them on the baking process.

4. The forth step involves purchase of basic equipments to start-up the process.

5. The fifth step involves practical, which will take five days.

6. The sixth step is now the production.

7. The last step is identifying places to sell the product.

8. Continuous production.

Innovation: For along time, the youth and those who are HIV positive bare the brunt of ppoverty. Most often, those who are infected lack basic neccessities like food to nutralize the effect of drugs (ARVs) they take. Furthermore, breads that will be made will have nutritional values to prolong the lives of those who are positive, apart from enabling them have economic power.What makes this process innovative is that those who are and would be working in this project are those who are disadvantaged in the society and lack the power to sway things their way.

Impact: One important impact of this project is that it will remove prejudize and stigmatization that both those who are infected face in the society, and youth face in there evry day life to earn honest living in the society. As a result of stigmatization and prejudize, there has been an increase of HIV/AIDS with many of those who are infected wanted prove apoint through revenge, and young people taking to drugs and magging to prove their points. The fact that those who are HIV positive making bread to be consumed in the community is point enough that stigmatization is going to be a thing of the past.

Ethical Action: For along time, people living with HIV/AIDS have been demonized and made to look like loosers. Many a times, they have been shunned, and nobody would even dare great, let alone eat food they make.

A conserted compaign done by young people in the community to create awareness on HIV/AIDS has been a welcome effort as people nolonger see people living with HIV/AIDS as anything ,but as a condition anybody can find him/herself in.

This is what brought in collaboration between the youth and those who are HIVpositive to start a project that will enhance their livelihood.

The fact that bread made by these people are eaten in the community is testimony enough that stigmatization is going to be a thing of the past.

Replication: This project is a replication of another project that was done by the same organization (SIDAREC) in another slum called Pumwani. The Mukuru project is a replica of the Pumwani success story. The main reason of starting a project in Mukuru was to initiate a community based HIV/AIDS care and support program. It is a community owned project managed by the local youths whose capacity to assume leadership roles still need to be enhanced. Kenyaýs Ministry of Health through the National AIDS Control Programme in their HIV/AIDS eradication program identified Embakasi Division as a high HIV prevalence area with over 30,000 HIV/AIDS reported cases. SIDAREC was identified by the Ministry of Health to initiate a community response to HIV/AIDS.

Sustainability: We believe that the bakery project, being an income earning project will be able to sustain its activities once everything is put in place. At the momemnt, the youth and those who are HIV positive use manual instead of electric oven, provers and mixers to do the job. But with time as we continue to solicit these materials from well-wishers, the work will be light and they will be able to produce en masse . However, the future looks bright, and the project is assured of sustainability in future as production increases.

Position in the Ethics Mosaic of Solutions:

Factor: Individualism

Principle: Building ability to care, uphold values, and make