Caring for People Affected by HIV & AIDS in Nepal

Recently our AIDSlink Staff in Nepal ran 2 Channels of Hope HIV workshops where 69 locals have received valuable input.  In June, we had 33 participants and  in July we had 36. The participants are social mobilizers. They go from village to village visiting schools, having tremendous input of raising awareness in the communites.  One of our participants has already started an Awerness program in school.  One of our participants told us: "I was living in a village and people were asking me what am I doing here?  I do health work Now I can tell them I do HIV awerrness in communites."   Another participate told us that after one of our activities called  ‘Fishbowl’,  I began to have respect for my sister and mother like other women."   One of the girls said, “we as women are suffering from different problems,  but today I realized that many men also suffer from carrying so much responsibility."  At the end of our 3 day  workshop we had a closing ceremony where we passed a candle light to each other, because we want to see change in communities, being moved from darkness into light as we Transmit Hope together