AirKmay first began its operations in the USA virtually providing free ICT consultancies to religious organizations, private organizations, and non-governmental organizations. The organization moved a step further to conduct an online fundraising event through GoFundMe drive to support a cancer patient in Kenya access treatment services in India. The organization expanded its scope to be a fully-fledged Community-Based Organization registered with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection in 2019 in Kenya and in 2020, registered in the USA under Non-Profit Incorporation with the Secretary of state.
Our logo, “AirKmay”, consists of two combined words; Air represents our diverse thoughts, intellect, knowledge, and comprehension to support initiatives to ensure that we reach out to more vulnerable families and soar to greater heights to ensure self-reliance. Kmay is the short version of the name of the founder, Kemei. The symbol within the logo illustrating a picture of a person and a clock running illustrate our effort to ensure that individuals, families, and communities are kept abreast with services and interventions befitting the ever-changing world in real-time.
The organization’s overall strategy to support one life at a time. The project targets to support at least 100 families annually in two phases, graduating families achieving resilience in the first phase and recruiting new families in the second phase. Through this initiative, we plan to provide quality, efficient and effective services to address household needs comprehensively and support them to be self-reliant.
Our objectives as an organization are:
- To address socioeconomic determinants of health to improve families well-being
- To increase youth participation through Information Communication and Technology (ICT)
- To raise environmental awareness and management among communities
AirKmay focuses on four core pillars in supporting vulnerable families to be self-reliant. These pillars are:-
i) Health and HIV
ii) Economic empowerment
iii) Youth empowerment through ICT
iv) Environmental conservation
The organization conducted its first-ever community event in December 2020 in Kisumu County, Kenya to support 50 vulnerable families within the Migosi ward.