Empowering Hope and Healing in Kenya

The Imani Project, a Portland-based non-profit, is a partnership between Americans and Africans in rural Kenya. Imani’s goal is to enable and empower Kenyan villagers to become educators, advocates, caregivers and HIV/AIDS activists in their own communities.

Marlene Anderson, a social worker from Portland, is Imani’s founder and Executive Director. We talked with Marlene and three Imani volunteers – Ann Picar, Annie Bennett, Ron “Wally” Walstrom.

The Imani Project: A Vision of Hope
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Story about Imani from PRP News Partner, KGW
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Related Links

• Poetry by Portland Poet Davild Filer Dedicated to the Imani Project
• World Aids Day is December 1, 2014
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