Small Grants - Mozambique

Grantee Name: ACOVI –Comite de Atendimento
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Project Name: Support to the Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Incoluane
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objectives of this grant are to improve the situation of the COV as well as their registration and identification, and to create conditions for the self-sustenance of orphans and vulnerable children. Major activities include: 1) Opening a 9-meter-deep well; 2) Chicken breeding; and 3) Opening a 2-hectare farm for cultivating a variety of crops.

Grantee Name: ADCR Associação Para O Desenvolvimentro das Comunidades Rurais de Xai-Xai
Project Name: Avante SIAIA
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: HIV Prevention; Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to 1) Reduce the HIV/AIDS contamination rate; 2) Reduce the stigma; and 3) Improve the diet and strengthen the hemonologic system. Major activities include: 1) Training HIV/AIDS activists; 2) Mobilizing and sensitizing ADCR members and beneficiaries of SIAIA village about the need for behavioral change; and 3) Multiplication and expansion of medicinal plants and vegetables.

Grantee Name: Associação Agrícola de Nhancutse
Project Name: Ku Hanha (To Live)
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to 1) Sensitize the community to the dangerous disease and ways it is transmitted; 2) Convince the community of the behavioral change needed in regard to this disease; and 3) Improve the living conditions of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families. Major activities include: 1) Training of activists; 2) Sensitizing the community; 4) Home visits and improvement of the diet by growing crops for the PLWHA.

Grantee Name: Associação Combate a Fome
Project Name: Take Care of Your Life
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to 1. Reduce discrimination and stigmatization of the people living with HIV/AIDS; 2) Raise awareness of the villagers and the sexually active in the applications of methods to prevent HIV/AIDS; and 3) To divulge the program Positive Living and stimulate the People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their relatives. Major activities include: 1) Training of activists to disseminate preventive measures against HIV/AIDS and provision of assistance to PLwHIV/AIDS; 2) Raising awareness of the sexually active people to undertake HIV tests; and 3) Multiplying and demonstrating the methods of growing plants/vegetables that improve the variety for PLwHIV/AIDS.

Grantee Name: Associação do Técnicos Agro-Pecuarios
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Project Name: Hope is Vital Project
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities; HIV Prevention
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to 1) Form a group of trained HIV/AIDS community leaders in the rural community (Maluana); 2. Trained community leaders will have the capacity to facilitate discussions and disseminate proper information on HIV & AIDS and issues related to prevention, care, support and facts on stigma and discrimination; 3) Mobilization of the community in dissemination of information on the impact of HIV and food insecurity on the community; 4) Accessibility/production of appropriate HIV & AIDS IEC materials to the rural community; 5) Accessibility of condoms to the rural community (Maluana); 6) Development of kitchen gardens for additional nutritional values in the diets of the community members (especially children and those suspecting they are living with HIV) and assistance in the fight against food insecurity. Major activities include: 1) Organizing sensitization and training workshops for community leaders and influential people among the community; 2) Distribution of IEC materials and condoms; 3) Organizing and implementing the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2004; 4) Organizing HIV& AIDS community outreach activities; 5) Installation of a kitchen garden demonstration; 6) Monitoring of activities; and 7) Production of appropriate IEC material (Picture codes).

Grantee Name: Associação dos Membros da Igreja de Cristo Unida em Moçambique –AMICUMO
Project Name: Sensitisation on HIV/AIDS Stigma Reduction
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Stigma/Discrimination Reduction
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to: 1. Mobilize the community leaders to accept speaking about the effects of the pandemic in the community as well as in the press so that other people may follow the example; 2) Mobilize youth leaders to speak up about the effects and consequences of HIV/AIDS in the religious groups where they are influential; 3) Educate the community for attitude and behavior change when dealing with HIV/AIDS victims. We hope that many religious leaders will speak openly about HIV/AIDS in the community; and 4) Direct the participation of youth and community leaders in finding local solutions in the fight against discrimination against HIV/AIDS victims. Major activities include: 1) Organizing one meeting with the community and religious leaders, two with youths and one joint meeting with both leaders and youths in order to increase their awareness about HIV/AIDS impact; 2) Printing 200 t-shirts, 300 pamphlets and posters to sensitize the community against discrimination of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PlwHA) by participating in programs of a day reserved for the fight against AIDS; and 3) Find a space in one of the mass media with the widest coverage for the leaders to have an opportunity to sensitize other leaders against discrimination against PLwHA as well as encourage the infected people to break the silence.

Grantee Name: Associação Para O Desenvolvimentro de Nhampndzoene
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Project Name: A Vida é Só Uma (There Is Only One Life)
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Reduce the proliferation HIV/AIDS infections; 2) Reduce discrimination and stigmatization of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLwHA); and 3) Improve food diet - Implementation of positive lives by PLwHA. Major activities include: 1) Dissemination of messages on HIV/AIDS prevention through lectures, theatre and radio programs: training of activists; 2) Home visits to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PlwHA) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in order to reduce discrimination and stigma; 3) Provide knowledge about cultivation and use of medicinal plants and improvement of food diet by creating multiplication fields and demonstrations.

Grantee Name: Associação Twanano
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Project Name: Nova Aliança (New Alliance)
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
Areas of Focus: Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Affected Communities
Project Description: The objective of this grant is to 1) Minimize the suffering of those affected and infected by HIV/AIDS; 2) Reduce the proliferation of STD’s and HIV/AIDS; 3) Improve the food diet of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PlwHA) and children. Major activities include: 1) Making home visits and encouraging the practice of “positive lives”; 2) Making lectures about prevention methods and fight against HIV/AIDS; and 3) Introducing the cultivation of fruit trees and vegetables that contribute to the improvement of food diet.

Grantee Name: ATHAP – Associação dos Transportadores de Horticolas Mariscos e Passageiros
Project Name: Drivers, conductors, Associates in the Fight Against Prevention and Stigmatisation on HIV/AIDS
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Involve drivers, conductors, supervisors and associate members in the transmission of messages about the fight against HIV/AIDS. Each taxi operating in our district must display the symbol of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the rear windscreen; drivers and conductors must wear t-shirts and caps about HIV/AIDS. Our supervisors at Xiquelene, Romão and Albazine terminal stations should possess knowledge about HIV/AIDS as well as have condoms for sale to the gathered crowds. ATHAP has been sensitizing its drivers, conductors and associate members to do HIV/AIDS tests and to change their sexual behavior. Once every ATHAP promotes sanitary education activities and explains to its associates the usage of condoms and the need of being faithful to ones partner, we explain to the transporters that they may be carriers of HIV/AIDS and that they can play a vital role in the education of passengers about HIV/AIDS and stigmatization of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PlwHA).

Grantee Name: Centro Comunitário Sto. Estevão
Project Name: Protection and care for the orphans in a vulnerable situation 2003 -2007
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Fight the stigma; 2) Reduce the suffering of the orphan child; 3) Create appropriate conditions so the child does not feel lonely and abandoned in the world. Major activities include: 1) Lectures on stigma and discrimination in the families or affected families about HIV/AIDS and how to fight it 2) Educational and vocational activities, such as embroidery, tapestry manufacturing, catering and agriculture in order to occupy the child whilst learning; and 3) Free drawings so that the child expresses his/her feelings in them.

Grantee Name: Comité Ecuménico para Desenvolvimento Social –CEDES
Project Name: Sensitisation on HIV/AIDS Stigma Reduction
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Advocate the mobilization of the community leaders so that they accept that the disease is within their community; 2) Educate the community for behavioral change; and 3) Encourage the community to create their own HIV/AIDS program. Major activities include: 1) Organizing two meetings to increase the community leaders' awareness about the current situation about HIV/AIDS and People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLwHA) to break the silence; 2) Printing 200 t-shirts, 250 pamphlets and posters to sensitize the community against discrimination of PlwHA3. Cover the media and PlwHA in all the activities to be carried out.

Grantee Name: Organizações Nwanamamani
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Project Name: Informal Markets in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Involve all sellers to fight against HIV/AIDS in informal markets; 2) Use sellers of barracas to pass the message about HIV/AIDS. Promote lecture at markets and use of barracas to inform the public the risks of this disease. Paint the toilet with HIV/AIDS publicity; and 3) Make the informal market a permanent place to fight against HIV/AIDS using our men in the field to sell condoms and pass the message. Major activities include: Nwanamamane organisation has in all informal markets of Maputo city, public sanitation that is used by sellers and the public in general. Our members will pass the messages to sellers about the fight against stigma and discrimination for the People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). We promote sanitary education to sellers on prevention of disease, such as cholera, malaria and others, through barracas cleaning in co-ordination with sellers commission of informal markets.

Grantee Name: SWAA –Moz- Associação de Mulheres Face ao SIDA em Africa - Moçambique
Project Name: Fight Against Stigmatisation and Discrimination in Urban District 2, Xipamanine and Chamanculo Wards
Region: Africa
Country: Mozambique
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 1) Guarantee counselling and subsequent follow-up to enable people to be aware of their HIV status and receive support so that they may then inform the relatives of their status without fear or discrimination; 2) Upgrade people living with HIV/AIDS to improve knowledge on the ways of transmission and non-transmission; 3) Upgrade members of the community on HIV/AIDS and counselling so that they may inform other members of the community about the disease, since what is at stake is lack of knowledge of ways of transmission and non-transmission. Major activities include: 1) Upgrading people living with HIV/AIDS and members of communities in the field of HIV/AIDS and counselling so that they may inform correctly about the disease; 2) Holding talks and door-to-door information, as well as debates in small groups, preferably with the witnessing of people living with HIV/AIDS in companies, institutions and residences; 3) Carrying out debates on radio and TV, with active participation of people living with HIV/AIDS, with the theme discrimination and stigmatisation – whenever possible, using a local language; 4) Providing interpersonal and family counselling; 5) Producing educative material with clear messages of HIV prevention; 6) Producing T-shirts with messages against discrimination and stigmatisation; 7) Carrying out marches in the ward with the active participation of local structures and residents, etc.