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Global Strategies for HIV Prevention, Nairobi/Addis
Ababa
2002 – $5,000
Global Strategies operates worldwide, creating alliances with
those who work to prevent HIV, especially among women and
children. This grant enables them to work with People to People,
an Ethiopian grassroots organization, to train community-based
health workers on effective strategies for mobilizing a greater
response around HIV prevention and care of people living with
AIDS.
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Hope for Children Organization (HFC), Addis
Ababa
2003 – $ 10,000
HFC engages the community to support families affected by HIV/AIDS.
They believe that by showing how HIV/AIDS affects children through
the children’s own eyes, that they will be able to call
attention to children’s needs and rights. This grant enables
HFC to partner with a documentary photographer to teach children
how to express their experiences of orphanhood and HIV/AIDS
using photography. The children’s photos will help raise
awareness locally and internationally of the challenges these
children face.
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Jerusalem Children and Community Development
Organization (JeCCDO), Addis Ababa
2005 - $ 75,000 (Three-year grant)
JeCCDO envisions a society in which disadvantaged children can
thrive and become self-reliant. With previous Firelight funding,
JeCCDO awarded sub-grants of $2,000 to each of five grassroots
organizations that support children and families affected by
HIV/AIDS. With this three-year regrant, JeCCDO will offer $3,500
sub-grants annually to each of five child-focused organizations,
which provide educational support, medical care, counseling,
and microfinance assistance to several hundred AIDS-affected
families. With these small grants, the organizations scale up
services, expand geographic coverage, and offer a wide array
of support for children affected by HIV/AIDS. Funding also enables
JeCCDO to work closely with its grantees to strengthen skills
needed to secure and manage external resources and to effectively
engage families.
2003 – $ 15,000
Since 1985, JeCCDO (formerly known as Jerusalem Association
of Children’s Homes) has provided residential care for
abandoned children. For the past eight years, they have led
an effort to deinstitutionalize their orphanages by reunifying
children with their families and integrating older children
into the community. As an experienced service-providing organization,
JeCCDO advises and offers technical support to community-based
organizations that work with children in crisis. Firelight funds
enable JeCCDO to make small grants to five emerging community-based
organizations that provide direct services to vulnerable children.
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