About Karama Connection

Karama Connection is an all volunteer organization, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA dedicated to helping children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Karama Connection began after Executive Director, Connie Naber, returned from a volunteer trip to Arusha, Tanzania in January, 2005. Having seen the suffering of people caused by the AIDS pandemic she decided to start a non-profit organization to help those in need. During that trip, Connie met Winfrida Mwashala, a Tanzanian nurse who had just started St. Lucia Hospice. At that time, St. Lucia was caring for adult patients dying from AIDS related complications. Sometimes these patients were also parents that were leaving behind an HIV positive child. Due to the stigma in the community, no one wanted to care for these children. Winfrida could not let these children be alone; St. Lucia was becoming an orphanage for children living with HIV or AIDS. Executive Director, Connie Naber, and volunteers, travel twice a year program, St. Lucia Nursing Home and Orphanage to care for and educate the children and surrounding community.