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 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

A Postcard from Training the Trainers - AIDS Skills for Women

By Alexis Nadin and Brian Banks - Visitors, May 15, 2009 06:03 PM

Alexis and Brian visited this project on May 5th, 2009. They write:

When we first visited Training the Trainers, we could not have imagined the profound impact this program has had, not only in the local community, but throughout Uganda. This project teaches women long-term HIV/AIDS survival skills including nutrition, agriculture for income generation, and how to care for themselves when they are sick. Initially, 35 women from all over the country were trained. All have since returned to their communities to teach the survival skills they have learned. Nine women have received advanced training, allowing them to train other trainers. This process is being continually repeated, thus expanding the knowledge exponentially. According to Toppi, one of the advanced trainers, over one million Ugandans have received training all over the country.

The lives of many of the women we have met over the past few days have been saved by this project. Justine, who has become our mother in Tororo, described her life before the training: she had become “burned out” by the burdens of her disease, she was unable to eat or sleep, and she constantly worried for her children. Following her training, she is healthy, empowered, and she has become a leader in her community. She uses the strength she has gained from this training to help others develop the same skills. Other women’s stories are similar. We have even heard that as a result of these trainings women are more willing to get tested for HIV because they are confident that they can continue to live a long, productive life with HIV/AIDS. The countless impacts of this project will save the lives of millions of women in Uganda.

When asked what they would tell their friends about this project, Alexis and Brian said, “Incredible: You need to see this!”

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