Our Journey

Many stories knit together to make one.

Founded in 2009, Living Room Ministries International is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Kenya and a 501(c)(3) in California, USA.  It began from the work of a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program, Tumaini na Afya (Kiswahili for hope and health), in Western Kenya. For several years, Tumaini na Afya’s work focused on reaching Kenyans in rural areas for HIV testing and treatment, education on HIV prevention, home-based care for those living with HIV/AIDS, and providing care for orphans. Living Room was created to extend that work by caring for those who were suffering from pain and symptoms associated with dying.  Living Room was birthed from the cries which were heeded from countless patients lying in anguish under the shades of trees; from mothers who were helplessly watching their children writhe in needless pain; from health professionals who lacked training and access to essential analgesics. Through the small but essential act of listening, Living Room saw a tremendous need to work with the community to bring hospice and palliative care services to the small Kenyan village of Chebaiywa.  This is where Kimbilio Hospice began – one of only two in-patient hospices in the country of Kenya, serving a population of 44 million people.