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Kigali- RWANERELA
RWENDERELA Facilitate various HIV
support groups◦ Financially◦ Logistically—organize
projects
◦ Worked primarily on Greenhouse Co-op Pilot.
◦ Focus on transforming mindset, long-term rather than short term support. In Bugesera (few hrs
south of Kigali)
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Kigali- GOH/Femmes
Femmes Rwandaise Positives La Lutte Contre Le VIH/Sida• Association of middle class
women living with HIV• Participated in small
business skills training conference
• InterviewsGate of Hope Ministries• Immense need for
counseling, virtually no trained counselors in country
• Lay Counselor Training• Interviews• Poverty: the new HIV
IJM experience (time)
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Gisenyi
OJEPAC (Gisenyi)• Youth GroupoTeach danceoSports leaguesoSkits
• All for HIV education• For CommunityoPerformancesoHIV screening drives
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Muremure
Community Health Center• Remote• Local Association• Adverse effect of
poverty• Mistrust of long-term
support [see RWANERELA]• Actually stressing
follow-up, or short-term.• Experience with
failed projects