Our Youth Literature Project involves the development, printing, distribution (free), and discussion of culturally relevant HIV awareness booklets. The 64-page, illustrated booklets are aimed at educated Maasai youth and provide them with both factual information and a tool for peer education and discussion. The booklets have been very well received and are providing popular with [...]

Empuaan’s community outreach aims to present HIV awareness information and promote HIV-related discussion, using traditional Maasai venues, settings and systems for information sharing and debate.
For a community to be able to protect itself from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, accurate information and appropriate education are important prerequisites. However, it is generally recognised that knowledge alone [...]

Empuaan is a mobile organisation, taking vital education to people living in the remotest areas. We use innovative and exciting ways to get people involved, engaged and talking, and we provide forums for critical thinking and discussion that can lead to behaviour change. 
Theatre is a wonderful way to reach people with educational messages and has [...]

Empuaan’s Music Project aims to raise awareness of HIV, its spread and its prevention by working with the community to develop HIV messages and integrate them into the lyrics of popular Maasai songs.
The Maasai Music Project is being developed in conjunction with Empuaan’s Educational Theatre for HIV Prevention.

In addition to creating an environment in which individuals and groups can explore alternative ways of being and make informed choices to reduce the risk and impact of HIV/AIDS, Empuaan liaises with both governmental and non-governmental agencies to provide and distribute condoms in rural areas. We promote correct and consistent condom use, and work to [...]