[Above: Alie displays her Award from The Royal Dutch Ambassador to Kenya His Excellency Joost Reintje].Safe Water & Aids Program Director Alie Eleveld has been awarded the Royal Decoration from the Dutch Queen as a Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. This is due to her selfless dedication and devotion to the cause of improving the health and socio-economic status of Kenyan people through disease prevention and socio-economic empowerment.[see photos]

The Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) is a non-governmental organization based in Western Kenya that engages HIV support and self-help groups to promote and sell water treatment and other health products as an income generating activity that also benefits the wider community. Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) was started in 2005 through support from Rotary Atlanta. It was officially registered in Kenya as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in June 2006, with a Board of directors. SWAP aims to improve the health and socio-economic status of Kenyan people through disease prevention and socio-economic empowerment of the target population.
VISION
A healthy and empowered community where everyone enjoys high quality of life.
MISSION
To improve the quality of life of the vulnerable in community by building their capacities and supporting them to develop profitable health oriented micro- enterprises

 

Partnership

Melinda Gates (in Black) wife of Bill Gates, with Alie (in Blue) visited a SWAP Vendor in Nyalenda, Kisumu in 2006