Lwala Community Alliance

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• Lwala Community Alliance is a Kenyan founded health, education and development agency. The various programs in healthcare, education, and micro- enterprise have rapidly grown since 2007 to serve a population of more than 20,000 people in rural, Migori County, Kenya. Lwala Community Alliance is geographically focused in the Lake Victoria region because the location is known for its challenges. For example, the HIV prevalence rates in Migori County are triple the national average for Kenya. At the same time, the work has importance well beyond Migori County. By documenting results and processes and sharing these publicly and through collaboration with peer organizations, Lwala fosters transferability to other similar settings. Lwala's programming is holistic, with projects and staff in education, clinical care, public health outreach, and economic development. This fits the stated vision for wholeness of life in Lwala and beyond. Since poverty is multi-dimensional, creating wholeness demands a multi-dimensional approach to development. In short, Lwala aims to be a Kenyan innovator, focused on community-based change in a region known for its acute development needs and sharing lessons and results from this region to promote change in rural Africa more generally.Lwala has evolved significantly in the last 7 years, moving from grass-roots invention, to start-up, and into adolescence. The growth of core programming has been closely linked to growth in financial and staffing resources. Lwalas annual budget has tripled (from $421,609 in 2009 to $1,325,287 in 2014) and Lwalas staff has increased significantly (from less than 25 in 2009 to more than 75 full time staff and 90 part-time staff in 2014). These resources have allowed the organization to increase outputs by providing many more patient encounters (32,390 in 2013), reaching more students (6,000 in 2013), and training thousands of local people in new skills.
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  Headquarters:2525 West End Avenue , Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 615-974-1400

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  Website: https://www.lwalacommunityalliance.org

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  Employees:95

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  Revenue:$50 - 100M

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  Legal Name:Lwala Community Alliance

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• |  NAICS Code: 999990  |

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