OUR PARTNERSHIP
Your generosity can make a significant impact. By donating to Barn Och Kvinnor Organisation, you are helping to create a brighter future for those in need.
Your generosity can make a significant impact. By donating to Barn Och Kvinnor Organisation, you are helping to create a brighter future for those in need.
Barn och Kvinnor Organisation is a Swedish non-profit organisation committed to the rights, health and dignity of children and women in vulnerable communities.
OUR PARTNERSHIP
Your contribution directly impacts the lives of orphans, widows, and vulnerable families, providing them with hope and opportunities for a better future.
Your contribution directly impacts the lives of orphans, widows, and vulnerable families, providing them with hope and opportunities for a better future.
We work through long-term, on-the-ground partnerships — not short-term donations sent from a distance, but sustained relationships built on responsibility, trust and the belief that every child deserves more than survival. They deserve a life.
Likoni AIDS Orphanage Centre
Barn och Kvinnor Organisation has formed a committed, long-term partnership with the Likoni AIDS Orphanage Centre in Mombasa, Kenya — a home for approximately 45 children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.
The children at Likoni have experienced losses most of us will never understand. They have lost parents. In many cases, they have lost their own health. Some arrived at the centre having been found abandoned — left at roadsides, outside homes, in places where no child should ever be. They came with nothing. We are here to make sure they do not stay that way.
Location : Mombasa, Kenya
What These Children Face
Orphaned by AIDS
Most children at Likoni have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. Kenya’s coastal region remains one of the most severely affected areas in the country. These children carry grief alongside everything else they face.
Abandoned at Birth
Some children were found abandoned — left at roadsides or outside homes by families unable to care for them. They arrived unnamed, unknown, and dependent entirely on the people who chose to take them in.
Born Into Illness
A number of children at the centre are themselves HIV-positive. Without consistent medical care from the earliest possible age, their chances of survival are dramatically reduced.
No Safety Net
There is no state system that will step in. The centre and its partners — including us — are often the only thing standing between these children and a life with no support at all.
“They Were Sleeping on the Floor. We Changed That.”
When our team visited the Likoni AIDS Orphanage Centre, we discovered something that stopped us in our tracks. Approximately 45 children — many of them HIV-positive, all of them already carrying more than any child should — had no beds. No mattresses. No bedsheets. No blankets. They slept on bare floors, night after night.
We did not send a report. We acted.
The Beds Project. Barn och Kvinnor Organisation mobilised donors in Sweden and procured 40 beds, mattresses, bedsheets and blankets for the children at Likoni. For the first time, every child had a bed to sleep in. A mattress beneath them. A blanket when it was cold. What sounds ordinary to most people was, for these children, entirely new.
School Fees. A bed is a start. An education is a future. We cover school fees for the children at Likoni, ensuring that their circumstances do not become a ceiling on their potential. Every child who walks through a school gate is a child building a life beyond the orphanage.
Solar Lights. Last year, we provided solar lighting for the centre. Children who previously had no light after dark — no ability to read, study or simply feel safe at night — now have reliable, clean, renewable light. This project directly aligns with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, as well as SDG 4: Quality Education, because education cannot happen in the dark.
What we provide
Our Regular Support to Likoni
We provide the essentials that every child needs and that the centre cannot always source
independently. Our support is regular, targeted and based on what the children actually need on the
ground.
- Beds, mattresses, bedsheets and blankets
- Nutritious food and meal provisions
- Clothing for children of all ages
- School fees and school materials — books, stationery, uniforms
- Medical supplies and HIV medication support
- Hygiene products — soap, toothbrushes, sanitary items
- Solar lighting — clean, renewable energy for the centre
Aligned with the un sustainable development goals.
Global Goals, Local Action
Every project we deliver at Likoni connects directly to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is not coincidental — it is intentional.
We believe that local action and global responsibility are the same thing.
SDG 1 NO POVERTY
By covering school fees and providing essential supplies, we reduce the material deprivation facing 45 children who have no family financial support.
SDG 3 GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING
We fund medical supplies, HIV medication support and nutritious food — directly improving the health outcomes of HIV-positive children at the centre.
SDG 4 QUALITY EDUCATION
We pay school fees and provide school materials. Our solar lighting project means children can study after dark. Education is non-negotiable.
SDG 7 AFFORDABLE & CLEAN ENERGY
Our solar lights installation gave the centre clean, renewable energy — replacing darkness and reducing dependence on costly alternatives.
SDG 10 REDUCED INEQUALITIES
Children orphaned by AIDS, abandoned at birth and living without family support are among the world's most marginalised. Our work directly addresses their exclusion.
SDG 17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
Our Sweden–Kenya partnership demonstrates that cross-border collaboration between civil society organisations drives real, measurable change on the ground.
Sustainability
Built to Last
Short-term donations can change a moment. Long-term commitment changes a life. Barn och Kvinnor Organisation is not a one-time donor — we are a sustained partner. Our support to Likoni is built on three pillars that ensure the children benefit not just today, but year after year.
Pillar 1 — Ongoing Funding
We maintain regular financial commitments covering school fees, medical supplies, food and essential materials — not as a one-off, but as a reliable annual commitment the centre can plan around.
Pillar 2 — Physical Infrastructure
Beds, mattresses, solar lights — investments in the physical environment of the centre that serve the children for years. We prioritise durability and lasting impact.
Pillar 3 — Education & Future
By paying school fees we invest in the children's futures beyond the orphanage — equipping them with education and opportunity so they can build independent, dignified lives.
Join Us
We Cannot Do This Without You.
The need at Likoni is real and it is ongoing. We are asking individuals, families, companies and organisations to join us — because the more support we have, the more children we can reach.
Donate
Financial contributions go directly to purchasing supplies for the children. No administration fees. No detours. Straight to Likoni.
Become a Partner
Companies and organisations can support us through regular sponsorship, matched giving or donations in kind. We welcome every conversation.
Organise a Drive
Rally your school, workplace or community to collect clothing, books or hygiene products for direct shipment to the children in Mombasa.
Raise Awareness
Share our work. Talk about these children. The more people who know, the more children we can reach. Your voice matters.
"A child found at the roadside has the same right to a future as any other child in the world.
We are here to make sure that right is honoured."
— Barn och Kvinnor Organisation
Contact us: info@barnochkvinnor.se