We help girls affected by HIV stay in school

Your support provides school fees, emotional care, and monthly creative workshops that build confidence and healing.

Girls affected by HIV
Un’Alike Expo

I am exhibiting at Un'Alike
May 2026, Geneva

For Un’Alike, I am presenting a series of pastel landscapes exploring light, water, and atmosphere.

My work often begins with places I know—Geneva, Kenya, moments of travel—but it quickly moves beyond what is seen. I am interested in how a place feels, and how that feeling can be held through colour, space, and simplicity.

Working in pastel allows me to layer gently, letting colours meet, dissolve, and breathe. These works sit somewhere between landscape and emotion—quiet, open, and intentionally unresolved.

Alongside my painting, I run art sessions with young people living with HIV in Kenya and this is open to all to join online once a month. This work is at the heart of my practice. It reminds me that art does not need to be perfect or complete—it needs to be honest, and it needs to be felt.

Impact Highlight

100 +

Girls supported with school fees

9 years +

Monthly art therapy sessions since 2015

Better self-worth

Improved treatment adherence & emotional resilience

About Us

We’ve been showing up since 2011 — with crayons, care, and school supplies. Learn more about our mission, who we are, and what keeps us going.

About_us_Painting_for_an_education_artist_Gelise

I create with what I have — to say what needs to be said, in the most honest way I can.

How It Works

Education Sponsorship

School fees, uniforms, books and meals
One-time or monthly support
Regular updates when possible
Regular updates when possible

Art and Healing

Monthly art sessions: collage, painting, storytelling
Focus on confidence, emotional expression, joy
Led by trusted community mentors

Art with Purpose

Explore styles inspired by healing, landscape, and human strength

Special collections from Samburu and the HIV journey​

Each painting sold funds a girl’s education or art session

Commissions are available for personal or corporate spaces

Stories That Stay With You

Girls affected by HIV

– Nancy, 28

Now I mentor others. I am who I needed when I was younger.”

Education sponsorship Kenya

– Gloria, 18

“I stayed in school because someone I didn’t know believed in me.”

Art therapy for healing

– Yvonne, 19

“Art helped me speak when I had no words.”

Yvonne in five words