Where support is hard to reach, we deliver support that gives children hope for the future and makes them smile. We stand by each and every one of the people in Africa so that they can change their communities and societies by themselves.

Where support is hard to reach, we deliver support that gives children hope for the future and makes them smile. We stand by each and every one of the people in Africa so that they can change their communities and societies by themselves.

VISION
The Society We Strive to Build

We envision a society where children left behind can achieve positive living with hope and create their own future.

We aim to build a society where children, unable to dream in the face of complex social or family challenges, can dream again—empower them, help them grow, gain confidence, and shape their futures through their own strength.

MISSION
Our Mission at PLAS

We are committed to solving challenges in partnership with local communities so that orphans and children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa can live with hope and positivity.

In order to solve the issues faced by children left behind, we collaborate with local partner organizations and engage with adults, communities, and government entities to maximize the potential of local resources and capabilities.

As of the end of November 2024
¹ UNICEF, 2023 [Good News or Bad News for Africa: Recent Trends in Monetary Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa]
² In the FLOWER Project, 100% of children who completed primary education progressed to secondary school or vocational training (compared to 42% enrollment rate in Homa Bay County, more than twice the usual rate).

Positive Living through AIDS orphan Support

Positive Living through AIDS orphan Support

We founded an NGO for AIDS orphans by seven Japanese university students in 2005.

When our team visited Africa, they felt a strong duty to change the living conditions of the AIDS orphans that they had met, who were poor and discriminated.
They therefore established PLAS, to help create a society where HIV positive people can feel positive about their future, and the supporters can also feel positively about their own lives through their work.

This is why our organisation is called PLAS; or ‘Positive Living through AIDS Orphan Support’. With such belief in our mind, we have been working for the children in Africa, in Uganda and Kenya, through various challenges and developments along our journey.

We founded an NGO for AIDS orphans by seven Japanese university students in 2005.

When our team visited Africa, they felt a strong duty to change the living conditions of the AIDS orphans that they had met, who were poor and discriminated.
They therefore established PLAS, to help create a society where HIV positive people can feel positive about their future, and the supporters can also feel positively about their own lives through their work.

This is why our organisation is called PLAS; or ‘Positive Living through AIDS Orphan Support’. With such belief in our mind, we have been working for the children in Africa, in Uganda and Kenya, through various challenges and developments along our journey.