A farming cooperative for widows and orphans in Uganda will get a tractor and other equipment to improve production.

Empower AIDS Widows in Uganda--Buy Them a Tractor

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RARUDO

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts - Executive Director, The River Fund, December 17, 2007 06:09 PM

The women of this impoverished area have now trained hundreds of other women in HIV long term surival skills ... inlcuding prevention, health and nutrition, the use of local indigenous foods and herbs, women's empowerment and given hope to so many. They have incorporated the disabled group into RARUDO. But they need so much more help to continue.
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Vocational Training Center

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts - Project Sponsor, August 29, 2007 06:40 PM

The Rayland Rural Development Organization recently completed construction of a new vocational/training center in their small village. They did this with the help of donors and local government. RARUDO has also been able to purchase and install 10 sewing machines to begin training in tailoring in addition to their work in agriculture and organic farming.

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By Jaya Canterbury-Counts, M.Ed. - Executive Director, The River Fund, May 10, 2007 05:14 PM

In a region devastated by AIDS, these rural widows have joined their small plots of land to form an organic farming co-op. They need equipment and training to pull themselves and their children out of poverty. Presently, we have trained twenty widows in Long Term Survivor Skills in HIV/AIDS and they are in turn training others in their community. We have sent six AIDS widows for training in tailoring and they are now operating their own businesses and together the group has begun construction of a training center in their small village which will operate along with government aid to provide skill training for the local community. The group has also purchased bicycles to reach remote homesteads to train in HIV prevention and education.

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