Embrace AIDS ~ What CRWRC is Doing

CRWRC is taking steps to reach out in love to those who are hurting from HIV/AIDS. This includes programs...

For Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

• Encouraging home-based care programs and training additional community health care workers to provide regular support to those in need.
• Facilitating access to clinics, antiretroviral drugs, and other treatments.
• Providing start-up money for small business programs so that families have funds to pay for medications as well as basic needs.

For Caregivers

• Training caregivers how to effectively offer support and care to people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Offering loans to groups of people (e.g. widows) so they can collectively own oxen and a plough to greatly increase the amount of land under production.

For Children & Youth at Risk

• Promoting HIV/AIDS education and values formation in schools.
• Giving teen-aged heads of households vocational training.
• Doing training for youth at risk through lessons, stories, songs, and skits
• Decreasing malnutrition in children less than five years through growth monitoring, education for parents, and better access to food.
• Enabling orphans and vulnerable children to cover the costs of going to school.

For the Community

• Engaging community members in awareness exercises and discussion groups to break down stigma and misunderstandings associated with HIV/AIDS
• Supplying food and seeds to HIV/AIDS communities affected by drought and other disasters.
• Providing families with improved nutrition through more productive agriculture.
• Including HIV/AIDS education in materials used in adult literacy classes.
• Providing immediate relief assistance to communities affected by both drought and HIV/AIDS.

For Churches

• Bringing church leaders together for training and education in the following areas: prevention, care and support, pastoral care, counseling, treatment, leadership, and advocacy.
• Training partner staff in how to incorporate HIV/AIDS interventions into all their core programs.
• Providing education to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS and training in ways to care for the community as Christians.