Lwala Community Alliance (LCA) is a dynamic health, education, and development organization with proven success in ensuring child survival, reducing the burden of HIV, and increasing school completion rates in rural Migori County, Kenya.

The eight year-old organization was founded by Kenyan brothers Milton and Fred Ochieng’, subjects of the documentary film Sons of Lwala. While the brothers were in college in the United States, they lost both of their parents to AIDS. Milton and Fred took this as a call to action to provide access to primary care in their home village and opened the Lwala Community Hospital, where more than 30,000 patient visits are provided each year.

The hospital now sits at the center of a multidimensional program model which includes ongoing public health outreach to 3,800 homes, auxiliary education projects reaching 6,000 students at 15 public schools, and micro-enterprise activities equipping hundreds of local people with business and agricultural skills. This body of work has scaled significantly since 2007 to serve a population of more than 20,000 people and employ more than 180 Kenyans.

LCA U.S. is based on the beautiful campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where an affiliation with the university’s Institute for Global Health has thrived since the organization’s inception. A team of five in the U.S. supports the staff of 76 in Kenya, where a Managing Director oversees the programmatic activities on the ground. LCA’s annual revenue has quadrupled in recent years, and the current budget of $2 million is supported by partnerships with a diverse group of funders such as Ronald McDonald House Charities, Johnson & Johnson, and the Segal Family Foundation. The organization has been featured by Apple, the Clinton Global Initiative, NPR, ABC World News, and CNN.