Gender Equality Uganda Project #1015

Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

by The River Fund

Project Report | Oct 7, 2013
Quarterly Report

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts | Director, The River Fund, Inc.

Many children!

Dear Global Giving Friends and Donors,

Sorry for the late report, but I just returned from a fantastic site visit to our projects in Uganda. Along with two other volunteers, we visited our Rayland Rural Development Project and all of the small groups associated with the project. Everyone is doing amazing work with very little. We continue to support childrem, mostly orphaned or other vulnerable children, including child headed households, widows, a very empowered group of disabled people and the old and alone.

The activities of the members include:

home based care and counseling
referral to health clinics as needed
micro-financing
distributing goats for milk and for income generating activity
monthly meetings to continue eduation in Long Term Survival Skills for HIV/AIDS
training in mother to child prevention of HIV/AIDS (PMTC)
vocational training in tailoring,baking and hair dressing
supporting orphand and other vulnerable children in school and with nutrition
distributed seeds to widows for kitchen gardens
care for the sick
follow up drug compliance for those on ARV
dig and protect new wells
mainstream people with disabilities and HIV
bought 200 chairs and some tents to rent out for events for income generation for disabled group members
trained PWD (people with disabilities) in music performance for pay!

Thank you! We had a great visit and are so grateful for your help.

Jaya

bought 200 chairs and tents to rent out for events

Local school where we support more than 100 kids

Turkey in Uganda ... micro project

Mother and child

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Organization Information

The River Fund

Location: Sebastian, Florida - USA
Website: https://www.riverfund.org
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Project Leader:
Jaya Canterbury-Counts
Executive Director
Sebastian , Florida Uganda

Funded Project!

Thanks to 420 donors like you, a total of $40,018 was raised for this project on GlobalGiving. Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.

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