Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status

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Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status

Summary

The project seeks to reach out to an estimated 3,000 high-risk and vulnerable people who are unable to access health facilities to know their HIV status and thus seek treatment and social care. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $120 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The campaign will use mobile caravans to reach out to otherwise unreachable populations in rural areas and other high-risk urban settings. Clients will be tested for HIV and referred to health institutions where they will receive further treatment. GEMINI will then establish Home-Based care models that will offer nursing, clinical and psychosocial support to HIV+ persons

Activities

We will test clients for HIV through mobile clinics and also provide post-test services e.g. antiretroviral drugs, home-based care and psychosocial support

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $120

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $120. The original project funding goal was $25,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will enable 3,000 people to know their HIV status and facilitate their access to treatment, home-based care and psychosocial support, facilitate training of 50 health workers on Home-Based care and formation of 12 social support groups

Project Message

"I sold all my land to buy drugs thinking I had been bewitched! But after attending one of these mobile HIV clinics, I'm not even ashamed to state that I'm HIV+ because they renewed my hope to live!"
- Jecinta Obure, Project beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stella Amojong,
Program Coordinator
OLOO STREET, 64 ARCADE, 1st Floor
P.O Box 630
Eldoret, RIFT VALLEY PROV 30100
Kenya
+254-53-2061269
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)
Market Street
Siro House, 2nd Flr, Room 207
ELDORET, RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE P.O Box 1439-30100
Kenya
+254-720-8446605

Learn more about Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI) and the project team.

Grassroots Empowerment Initiative (GEMINI)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Supporting Poor Families Affected by HIV/AIDS

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 17, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Special Appeal

By Stella Amojong - Director, June 17, 2008 06:24 PM

Dear friends,

GEMINI has always tried to keep you informed of how your donations are being spent. Every step of the way! The aim is to make you own part of the process and feel actively involved in empowering poor communities.

We thank all of you for your continued support.

After the post-election violence in Kenya, a lot of women/girls were, unfortunately, sexually abused. Most continue to languish in camps, with little medical and psychological support.

With your donations, we responded to the crisis. Now that its over, we need to reach out to all the survivors of sexual violence with confidential, free HIV testing.

We are carrying out a Special Appeal that seeks to mobilize funds to set up a specialized VCT center that will provide women/girls with these services.

But we need you help.

We are kindly requesting you to read the attached newsletter that provides some background information on this very important project.

And we are also requesting you to act and make a donation to any of GEMINI projects to enable us accomplish our goal.

Thanks so much and please, remember, any donation will be highly appreciate.

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