Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Moi’s Bridge, a rural location in Uasin Gishu, frail grandmothers have taken over parenting duties after the deaths of able-bodied parents. “At the end of the day, my grandchildren simply want food, they want to attend school, they need drugs…how do I tell them I can’t deliver anymore?” says Minayo, 84 years. We will empower grannies with agribusiness skills, provide them with food baskets while a community outreach program will emphasize behaviour change and reduce further HIV infection.

Activities

Training grandmothers on modern farming will sustain their food security and increase their financial prospects and ensure their grandchildren have access to nutritional foods, better shelter, education and a secure environment.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,566
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $34,433
Total Funding Goal: $40,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project hopes to strengthen community safety nets by building strong family structures and empowering 250 vulnerable households through long-term skills-building to ensure poverty and HIV/Aids are both effectively addressed.

Project Message

“I always regret not having education. But I also know regret alone won’t assist me. That is why I’m fighting to have all my grandchildren attend and complete school. Only this will pacify me!”
- Esther Mudhasia, 78 years old, Project Beneficiary, caring for 11 grandchildren

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 Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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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.

Latest Update from the Field

Fighting Stigma all the way!!!!

By Joe - Communication Officer, September 29, 2008 09:09 PM

Stigma is the worst thing that People Living with HIV/Aids experience. It makes them feel dejected. Unwanted. Unappreciated. Labeled. Cursed.

But for one Mama Stephen, defeat simply is not an option!

Like other rural women living with the disease, she is actively participating in activities that seek to change community perception of HIV/Aids and reduce stigma.

"Quitting is a word that I deleted from my dictionary...!" says this 42-year old fighter.

Read her story. Encourage her. Support her. Go on, read this piece!

And we appreciate your donations, even in the existing economic circumstances.

God bless all of you!!!
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Tackling Stigma.pdf

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