Mary Martin Niepold, Lecturer in Journalism at Wake Forest University, created The Nyanya Project following her visit to Kenya in the summer of 2007. She'd spent three weeks volunteering in AIDS orphanages and was struck by the burden the grandmothers were facing as they raised these children. When she asked "Who's helping the grandmothers?" She learned the answer - No one, not even the government. She felt like someone needed to help these women and give them the tools to provide for their … [Read more...]