The International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter is an interfaith, faith based non-profit organization which was established in 2004 after the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (ANERELA+). The formation of ANERELA+ was inspired the first practicing religious leaders led by Canon Byamgisha to declare openly their HIV status.
Over the years, INERELA+ Kenya has empowered over 7000 religious leaders and has been able to reach over 7 million congregants in faith communities with key messaging on stigma reduction.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community and congregational platforms to engage, mobilize, empower and transform communities through faith sector platforms by integrating advocacy issues including sexual and gender based violence, gender justice, meaningful male engagement, paediatric HIV and TB treatment, mobilization for agribusiness to amplify empowerment to reduce vulnerability to HIV by addressing factors fuelling the spread of HIV.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community mobilization, empowerment and transformation by integrating health education, agribusiness empowerment, gender justice and discourse, SAVE mainstreaming, advocacy and capacity building to address self and community stigma, influence faith communities and national policies around HIV programming, gender, human dignity and accountability and creation of heralds of change to transform their communities.
The network has 47 county chapters (offices) as indicated on the map =>
How Faith is Playing a Role in Fighting HIV and AIDS
Defeating SSDDIM & Promoting SAVE
The International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter is an interfaith, faith based non-profit organization which was established in 2004 after the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (ANERELA+). The formation of ANERELA+ was inspired the first practicing religious leaders led by Canon Byamgisha to declare openly their HIV status.
Over the years, INERELA+ Kenya has empowered over 2000 religious leaders and has been able to reach over 5 million congregants in faith communities with key messaging on stigma reduction.
INERELA+ Kenya works through community and congregational platforms to engage, mobilize, empower and transform communities through faith sector platforms by integrating advocacy issues including sexual and gender based violence, gender justice, meaningful male engagement, paediatric HIV and TB treatment, mobilization for agribusiness to amplify empowerment to reduce vulnerability to HIV by addressing factors fuelling the spread of HIV.