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FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION
Annual Report First 4 Years:
2000–2003 Text-only Version
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GRANTS 2000 – 2003
Rwanda
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Population
Population under age 18
HIV adult seroprevalence
Orphans as percent of all children
Total number of orphans
Percent of orphans due to AIDS
Total Firelight funding
Number of grants given
Number of grantee-partners
Percent of grantees regranted
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7.9 million
4.1 million
9%
18%
613,000
43%
$192,800
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9
33%
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ASSOCIATION D’APPUI AUX GROUPEMENTS DANS LE DOMAINE
SOCIO-ÉCONOMIQUE (AGS), Gikongoro |
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2002 – $10,000 |
Entirely volunteer-driven, AGS helps
people living with AIDS to live positively, with a special focus on providing
educational and economic opportunities. Grant funds underwrite the cost
of HIV/AIDS education workshops and meetings that reach 350 caregivers,
orphans, and children. Additional funds are being applied towards educational
expenses for children affected by AIDS.
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ASSOCIATION DES FEMMES CHEFS DE FAMILLES – GIRIBANGA
(AFCF-Giribanga), Kigali |
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2003 – $15,000 |
AFCF-Giribanga was founded by a
group of widowed survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, who came together
for mutual support and to create livelihood opportunities for themselves
and their children. Giribanga means “to keep our secret,” a word
chosen because many of these women were raped during the genocide, which
resulted in their HIV infection. With Firelight’s initial grant of
$13,400, AFCF-Giribanga established a small bakery and trained 15 youth
as bakers. This grant enables AFCF-Giribanga to expand its successful bakery,
covering the costs of a new oven and related equipment, supplies, and bicycles
for bread delivery. Profits enhance the livelihoods of their growing membership,
now numbering 78 widows and 140 children.
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2002 – $4,000 |
Funding covers the costs of hiring
a technical consultant to develop a marketing and training proposal for
expanding their youth-run bakery.
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2001 – $13,400 |
In response to the growing number
of child-headed households, AFCF-Giribanga’s membership of 34 widows
and 106 children are establishing a bakery with this Firelight grant. Firelight
funding covers the costs of equipment, personnel, and raw materials to start
the bakery. The master baker is training 15 youth in bread production. Profit
from bread sales provides the youth trainees with their first regular income.
Funds also cover a 5-day training program for 100 children in income-generating
activities and legal rights.
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ASSOCIATION DE SOUTIENS AUX RESCAPÉS DU GÉNOCIDE
(ASRG-MPORE), Mirenge |
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2003 – $1,500 |
Founded in 1995 to alleviate the
suffering of genocide survivors by reducing poverty and fostering tolerance,
ASRG-MPORE’s work with child-headed households has been celebrated
by the First Lady of Rwanda. Its poverty-reducing programs have focused
on creating livelihood opportunities for child-headed households and equipping
them with the facts about HIV/AIDS and ways to avoid infection. Firelight
funds support the salary and transportation expenses of a community development
worker assisting 50 child-headed households with animal husbandry and small-scale
agriculture activities in rural Mirenge in Eastern Rwanda.
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2002 – $18,500 |
ASRG-MPORE has identified over 450
child-headed households in the Mirenge District resulting from the 1994
genocide and AIDS-related mortality. This grant enables ASRG-MPORE to improve
the livelihoods of 50 children heading households and their 75 younger siblings
by training the youth in agriculture and life skills, including reproductive
health, HIV/AIDS, and conflict resolution. After training, the youth will
be organized into groups of 10 child-headed households and equipped with
hoes, seeds, part-time labor, and livestock, which will increase their food
production and income.
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BAMPOREZE, Kigali |
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2003 – $8,000 |
Bamporeze’s main purpose is
to create income-generating programs, thus offering support to households
headed by women and children as a result of the genocide, war, and HIV/AIDS.
Two of their most successful livelihood projects are in woodworking and
soap production. This grant helps them initiate a “twinning program”
to pair 75 child-headed households with neighboring adults. The adults will
act as mentors or godparents to the children, serving as counselors, educators,
and friends. Bamporeze is also using grant funding to educate the adults
and youth about HIV/AIDS, to start an animal husbandry project, and to create
14 anti-AIDS clubs for the youth.
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BENISHYAKA ASSOCIATION, Kigali / Country-wide |
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2003 – $15,000 |
Benishyaka means “courage”
in Kinyarwanda, the mother tongue of most Rwandese. Benishyaka Association
operates nationwide to assist children in difficult circumstances by providing
school scholarships and training caregivers on the basics of small business
start-up and management. Through a careful selection process, they ensure
that disadvantaged youth can continue their studies through secondary school.
Benishyaka reaches 3,000 children and adults with their programs. This grant
provides scholarship support for 131 secondary school students for another
year of their education.
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2002 – $40,000 |
This second year of funding provides
one year of school fees and related expenses for 150 children who were supported
last year. Twenty of the these youth participate in a Firelight-funded pen
pal exchange with a high school in California, sharing the issues of daily
life among youth dealing with the effects of war and HIV/AIDS.
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2001 – $40,000 |
The grant pays for one year of school
fees and related expenses for 150 secondary school-aged children.
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DIOCESE CATHOLIQUE DE CYANGUGU, Cyangugu |
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2003 – $3,800 |
Funds are supporting the efforts
of the Catholic Diocese to meet the educational expenses (uniforms, shoes,
notebooks, etc.) of 250 Batwa children in Cyangugu. It also pays for the
health care needs of 693 Batwa children. The Batwa are an indigenous pygmy
group in Rwanda who have been forced from their forest homelands.
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PROJET LES EQUIPES ENSEIGNANTS DU RWANDA/SYNDICAT NATIONAL
DES ENSEIGNANTS DU PRIMAIRE (PROJET EER/SNEP), Country-wide |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Project EER/SNEP works to educate
youth in health matters and to advance HIV/AIDS prevention efforts within
schools. Recognizing the extensive impact that teachers have on the attitudes
and beliefs of children and youth, Project EER/SNEP has initiated a national
effort to educate secondary school teachers on HIV/AIDS prevention and sexuality
and how these issues intersect with Rwandan culture. This grant pays for
the training of 1,000 secondary school teachers.
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REMERA CATHOLIC CONTRE LE SIDA (RECASIDA), Kigali |
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2003 – $5,600 |
Started by school teachers to address
the needs of vulnerable children in their classrooms, this volunteer organization
provides children with legal advice, moral guidance, psychosocial counseling,
and material assistance. Firelight funding is enabling RECASIDA to work
with 10 adolescent girls to open a hair and beauty salon as an income-generating
activity. These young women will participate in a mentoring program and
also complete job-related training that is supplemented with information
on HIV/AIDS and life skills.
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RWANDA WOMEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (RWN), Kigali |
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2003 – $8,000 |
This organization developed out of post-genocide relief efforts. One
of their programs, the Polyclinic of Hope, was set up to meet the needs
of HIV-positive women and their children. Medical staff noticed that their
clients’ needs extended beyond medical care to all aspects of rebuilding
their lives. They began to offer counseling, daycare, and vocational training.
Firelight grant funding allows RWN to train 47 pairs of women and children
on HIV/AIDS awareness and home-based care as a step toward empowering
them to meet their physical, psychological, and emotional needs. They
are also educating 27 women on the basics of small business activities
and are providing them with start-up loans.
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Please note that this Annual Report covers the period from December 1,
1999 through September 30, 2003.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please send
an email to Cheryl Talley-Moon at Cheryl@firelightfoundation.org.
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