Small Grants - Vietnam

Grantee Name: AIDS Program Group
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Project Name: Improving the managing and caring ability for PLHA and establishing self-help group of HIV infected people
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to design a method of care, assistance, counseling, and medicine approaches for people with HIV/AIDS, with their self-reliant and community-based participation. Summarize experiences to reflect, and influence the policies, especially on heroin user gathering and HIV/AIDS. Train personnel as an organization of the masses and personnel doing HIV/AIDS study. Create materials and communication to encourage the masses, volunteers, and HIV infected people to confidently participate in activities, so that AIDS activities are more popular and effective in the communities. Major activities include: 1) Designing and organizing basic activities, such as identifying and developing appropriate IEC materials, telephone hotline, etc.; 2) Developing skills and forming self-help group (training, technical support for new self-help group); 3) Organizing activities for HIV infected people or who are in their last phase of AIDS living in poor communities and who have recently returned home from rehabilitation centers (leaflet distribution, counseling, providing care and support for PWA and communication).

Grantee Name: Bright Future Group
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Project Name: Bright Future Group
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: This project was designed to strengthen networks of people living with HIV and AIDS in order to improve their access to care and treatment options.

Grantee Name: Center of Action for Development (AFORD)
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Project Name: Come together – Supporting job creation opportunities for PLHA and their caregivers project
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to support the 40 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families, who reside in Ba Dinh district, Ha Noi, in finding suitable jobs and training them on establishing and improving their small businesses. Major activities include: 1) Training 40 PLWHA and their families, who reside in the communities Phuc Xa and Phuc Tan, Ba Dinh, Ha Noi, in skills to start and improve their own small business; 2) Assisting one idea of business/ manufacturer from a group of PLWHA and their families, creating a model of locally sustainable jobs; 3) Assisting the project’s target objective in finding 10 local jobs, in cooperation with their families and communities.

Grantee Name: Group of Care and Support for PLWHA in Khanh Hoa
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Project Name: Increase awareness about HIV/AIDS in order to restrict the stigma and discrimination with PLHA
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to increase the knowledge about HIV/AIDS through activities of communication, consultation, care, and support for infected people in order to reduce the stigma and discrimination. Major activities include: 1) Increasing the ability of infected people; 2) Improving understanding about problems relating to HIV/AIDS for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA); 3) Improving the living conditions for infected people.

Grantee Name: Lotus Fragrance Club
Project Name: HIV/AIDS and community (Reduce stigma and discrimination and improving the quality of life)
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to shorten the invisible gap between infected people and the community as much as possible through any means. Along with eliminating discrimination, the project will create favorable conditions for the HIV/AIDS preventive process, and will seek to improve and maintain good health for infected people. In addition, the project will help to design a traditional model for caring implemented by religious groups and organizations that supports HIV/AIDS infected people. Major activities include: 1) Helping infected people to integrate into the community; 2) Improving physical and mental health of infected people; 3) Creating an advisory staff for expanding the extent of club activities.

Grantee Name: Red Flamboyant in Hai Phong
Project Name: Home–based care and support for HIV/AIDS infected people
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to improve the living quality for HIV-infected people through activities of the home counseling, care and assistance and communication in order to raise the understanding and awareness and to reduce the discrimination and stigma. Major activities include: 1) Carrying out home care of at least 60 HIV-infected people and assisting with the essential materials for 6 AIDS patients; 2) Counseling; 3) Directly communicating to 240 people in order to raise the awareness and reduce the discrimination and stigma in the family and in the community; 4) Assisting in materials and spirit for 60 children of HIV-infected people with difficult situations.

Grantee Name: STDs/HIV/AIDS Prevention Center
Project Name: Promotion of self-supporting activities of the infected people
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to enhance the quality of caring for the infected at home and promote the role of the infected people in health caring for themselves and other people in the same circumstance in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province. Major activities include: 1) Ensuring that at least 18 HIV-infected people are trained and equipped with knowledge and skills of self-caring in order to reduce their complex, live usefully and healthfully; 2) Providing moral support and treating infectious diseases for at least 180 other People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in their house; 3) Helping local people reduce their stigma and discrimination through a seminar.

Grantee Name: Sympathy Club in Halong
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Project Name: Train, generate jobs, increase income for women living with HIV/AIDS. Communicating, counseling and supporting and care for PWLHA in community.
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to improve the living quality of the infected people and promote activity of communication, counseling and support for taking care of the infected people at home and in the community. Major activities include: 1) Providing vocational training and generating jobs for 20 women living with HIV/AIDS; 2) Counseling, caring for and supporting People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA); 3) Improving the management ability for 30 members of the management board of 8 clubs and improving the basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS and for at least 150 members of clubs the safe method to care for HIV infected people and AIDS patients.

Grantee Name: Xuan Vinh Group
Project Name: Enhancement of capability and life quality of HIV infected people in the community.
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to widen the scope and enhance the quality of the service of caring at home for those who live with HIV/AIDS and their families at district 3, Ho Chi Minh City and Hung Loi ward, Can Tho City. Major activities include: 1) Improving the availability of home-based care and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA); 2) Training 50 infected people and their relatives on methods of care at home; 3) Helping people living with HIV/AIDS and their families be sympathized, loved, and helped by the community, thus, reducing stigma and discrimination through some activities, such as carrying out training courses for the community, establishing a club whose members are PLWHA, etc.; 3) Creating jobs for PLWHA.

Grantee Name: Youth volunteer to respond HIV/AIDS of Red Cross Gia Lam
Project Name: Nhan Ai Club for households of HIV infected people in Co Bi and Trau Quy communes, Gia Lam district
Region: Asia
Country: Vietnam
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to improve living standards for households of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) through the operation of Nhan Ai Club. Specific objectives: 1) Establishment of Nhan Ai club; 2) Raising awareness and skills of home-based care and support for club members; 3) Technical support for households of PLWHA. Major activities include: 1) Using propaganda in order to establish Nhan Ai Club for households of PLWHA in Co Bi and Trau Quy communes; 2) Enhancing knowledge and skills of home–based care and support for club members; 3) Training households of PLWHA on poultry raising techniques to improve their living standards.