Training the Trainers - AIDS Skills for Women

AIDS in Africa - Give Women Skills

Summary

This sucessful program uses personal contacts and grassroots networks to spread information about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, as well as promoting family health and women's empowerment. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In rural Uganda, women (especially AIDS widows) face sexual exploitation, polygamy, extreme poverty, poor medical care, destruction of families by HIV/AIDS and war. Working with women, we develop stronger families and healthier children who stay in school. We have reached 500000 people so far, and the network is growing.

Activities

"Training the Trainers" workshops are planned for 2009, with 35 women each. Participants, who have attended previous introductory workshops, will set up and run their own workshops throughout Uganda, including IDP camps of the North.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,920
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $4,880
Total Funding Goal: $7,800

Additional Documentation

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

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The network of peer educators continues to grow. Benefits include accurate AIDS information, longer survival for HIV+ people, stable families, children (especially girls) staying in school and delaying sexual activity to build their futures.

Project Message

“Women are now experts of their own destiny.”
- Teopista Auma, Project Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Joseph Onyango
Executive Director
PO Box 5040
Kampala,
Uganda
256-75 964642
Email:

Project Sponsor

The River Fund

Organization

The River Fund
11155 Roseland Road, Unit 16
Sebastian, Florida 32958
United States
772 589-5076
http://www.riverfund.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in UgandaUganda and can also be found under Women and GirlsWomen and Girls.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 16, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 8, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Training the Trainers Update

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts, Joseph Onyango - Directors, November 16, 2009 01:05 PM

OrphansWomen for Skills trainingIn the rural village for training
AIDS skill for women
Training is a fundamental part of our programs, all our activities include on-going activities are based on the foundation of different categories of training specifically:-
•   The long term HIV/AIDS survival skills.
•   Key farmers sustainable organic Agriculture training.
•   Solar Energy food processing, small scale bakery training.
•   Vocational skill training
Training the trainers-AIDS skills for women was initiated to help rural women in Uganda acquire appropriate skills to mitigate the spread of the HIV/AIDS, bring hope to hopeless and give voice to the voiceless women and children.
We are enabling a previously silent group of sufferers including abandoned alienated child-headed households and abused to find a voice again and to enjoy an improved quality of life.
Many of the sick children, women living with AIDS (PLWAS) that have been reached by our AIDS Trainers in Tororo have serious problems that cannot be met by a weekly or monthly or quarterly appointment at the center.

They need intensive physical and emotional rehabilitation and in some cases, terminal care because of:
•   Advanced HIV/AIDS
•   Severe malnutrition
•   Severe trauma as a result of loss bereavement, Isolation and in most case neglect.
•   Family members unwilling to help or unable to care because of poverty or fear of transmission or because they already had so many other orphans or mature sick person to care for
•   Isolation and loneliness.
It is clear that that they need CARE and ATTENTION on daily basis as far as possible. The 8 women groups with the skill acquired reached 20 small women groups with about 1600 women in total whose hearts & minds are being restored.
The uniqueness and success of these programs is due to the way they are run in partnership with the local community volunteers, local leaders, churches and small village clubs.
It has been our experience that, once communities are sensitized to the need of PLWAS, children with AIDS, OVC, they would really want to help them.
Our challenge is yet to train many other trainers to reach many people as possible and bring hope back to many vulnerable groups with aim of surviving longer with HIV/AIDS.
Thanks to the support of the River fund and thank you Global Giving for your joint effort.

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