The Nyumbani Children’s Home was founded in 1992 by an American Jesuit priest, Father Angelo D’Agostino, SJ, MD, after he discovered that orphanages in Kenya were turning away infants with HIV/AIDS. Taking matters into his own hands, and with the support of his vast network of friends and supporters, Fr. Dagostino rented a tenement in the Westlands area of Nairobi and adopted three abandoned HIV-positive infants.
From the beginning, Nyumbani, which means “home” in Kiswahili, provided solace and care to babies and children with HIV/AIDS. Soon, the three children became six, and the six became 12. Once a hospice where children lived out their final days with love, care, and dignity, Nyumbani is now a home to approximately 100 orphans and vulnerable children.