World Renew is taking steps to reach out in love to those who are hurting from HIV and AIDS.
This includes programs...
FOR PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS
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Encouraging home-based care programs and training additional community health care workers to provide regular support to those in need.
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Facilitating access to clinics, antiretroviral drugs, and other treatments.
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Providing start-up money for small business programs so that families have funds to pay for medications as well as basic needs.
FOR CAREGIVERS
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Training caregivers how to effectively offer support and care to people living with HIV/AIDS.
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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
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Promoting HIV/AIDS education and values formation in schools.
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Giving teen-aged heads of households vocational training.
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Doing training for youth at risk through lessons, stories, songs, and skits
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Decreasing malnutrition in children less than five years through growth monitoring, education for parents, and better access to food.
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Enabling orphans and vulnerable children to cover the costs of going to school.
FOR THE COMMUNITY
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Engaging community members in awareness exercises and discussion groups to break down stigma and misunderstandings associated with HIV/AIDS
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Supplying food and seeds to HIV/AIDS communities affected by drought and other disasters.
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Providing families with improved nutrition through more productive agriculture.
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Including HIV/AIDS education in materials used in adult literacy classes.
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Providing immediate relief assistance to communities affected by both drought and HIV/AIDS.
FOR CHURCHES
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Bringing church leaders together for training and education in the following areas: prevention, care and support, pastoral care, counseling, treatment, leadership, and advocacy.
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Training partner staff in how to incorporate HIV/AIDS interventions into all their core programs.
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Providing education to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS and training in ways to care for the community as Christians.