Cameroon Medical Women Association, Bamenda - Regrant
Firelight is supporting a scholarship program for 40 children in primary and secondary school as well as 10 children in vocational skills training. The grant also covers the children's medical care, food and clothing as well as program costs. In addition, Firelight is facilitating and sponsoring an educational exchange with a peer organization to encourage organizational and programmatic development.

Hope for Children Organization, Addis Ababa
Hope for Children Organization will partner with a documentary photographer to teach children how to express their experiences of orphanhood and HIV/AIDS through photography. The children's photos will be used to raise awareness locally and internationally of the challenges faced by children affected by HIV/AIDS and their strategies for responding to HIV/AIDS.

Anglican Diocese of Lusaka, Livingstone
With this funding, the organizations' St. Margaret's Community School will hold three community-based workshops on HIV/AIDS and two community sensitization workshops on child rights. They will also send four youth for short courses in vegetable growing and chicken keeping and engage all students in small-scale income generating activities.

Bwafwano Community Home Based Care Organization, Chipata - Regrant
As a result of this grant, 20 youth will be trained as peer educators and 20 adult committee members will be trained in orphan monitoring, community leadership and mobilization. In addition, 50 community caregivers will receive training, and 500 children will be fed at the community school.

Care for Children in Need, CAFCHIN, Lundazi and Chama Districts - Regrant
These funds will help set up a community resource center, a small loan fund for caregivers, and will help create a rural family network. These activities aim to promote support, discussion and collaboration for community-based resolution of orphan care.

Child Care & Adoption Society, Chilenje Transit Home, Lusaka
The Chilenje Transit Home will use this funding to train their staff in counseling and issues related to orphans and vulnerable children. They plan to send two staff members to a six-month training in psychosocial counseling and provide training to caregivers in hygiene, nutrition for HIV+ babies and children, first aid, and counseling for traumatized children.

Echoes of Mercy, Chibuluma
This grant will help Echoes of Mercy start a pre-school where they will offer free basic education to 15 orphans and vulnerable children and assist 22 school-going children with school fees, uniforms and supplies. They will also continue to run their carpentry shop by training at least five out-of-school youth, and work with local churches to provide training in HIV/AIDS prevention and raise awareness of the challenges faced by orphans and vulnerable children.

Fountain of Hope, Lusaka - Two-Year Regrants
One two-year grant will cover overhead and operational costs for running a comprehensive outreach program targeting street children, including a transitional shelter for boys. An additional two-year grant will provide technical assistance for organizational development.

Jesus Cares Ministries, Lusaka
Jesus Cares Ministries currently runs a community school that provides education, health services and basic necessities to 150 children. However, because of overcrowding and rising demand, the school plans to increase capacity. With this grant, Jesus Cares Ministries will increase enrollment by 50 students by constructing an additional classroom and purchasing additional benches and education materials.

Kara Counseling and Training Trust, Lusaka
Building on their current hospice program, Kara Counseling and Training Trust will use this money to provide a day care and 24-hour care facility specifically for children. Furthermore, they plan to train existing hospice staff to care for children living with HIV/AIDS as well as working with in-school youth training them in peer education skills, outreach, and the care and needs of children living with HIV/AIDS.

Luapula Foundation, Manza
Grant funds will cover food, school fees and supplies for children and inputs for farming and income generating activities for caregivers.

Mulumbo Early Childhood Care and Development Foundation, Lusaka
With this support, the Mulumbo Early Childhood Care and Development Foundation will train 75 new members of its Child Care Community Support groups in various subjects including: child development, parenting, nutrition, hygiene, counseling, and inclusive education. Additionally, the 75 new members will be trained in entrepreneurship skills and each of the foundation's three sites will be given a small business start-up fund.

National Educational and Agricultural Enhancement Programme (NEAEP), Kafue
In an effort to stimulate the community through income generating activities, this organization will purchase a grain mill that will be used by 10 caregivers, and provide vegetable seeds, provide a treadle pump and an irrigation hose for an additional 10 caregivers. The funds will cover school fees and supplies for 30 primary and 20 secondary school pupils. They will also train caregivers and community members on orphan issues.

Wilson's Orphans and Street Children Project, Chingola
The mission of this organization is to address the needs of over 2,500 orphans and vulnerable children in the Chingola region, by providing primary education, food and clothing, medical care, housing and skills training. With Firelight funding, Wilson's will formalize their community school, and train 100 volunteers to work in the school.

Zambian Red Cross Society, Lusaka
The Zambian Red Cross Society, through the Youth Skills Enterprises Initiative (YSEI), plans to recruit and train 200 youth with 3 skills building workshops and provide refresher workshops for 100 previous participants. In addition, four HIV/AIDS and behavior change workshops will be held for all participants. After completion of the training, YSEI will give the group financial support to make small loans to all participants.

Family AIDS Caring Trust (FACT), Chiredzi - Regrant
This grant will support 800 orphans through a combination of material assistance (food, blankets, clothing); home visiting to orphans and their caregivers; payment of educational expenses; psychosocial support; and skills training. Funds will also cover advocacy and training for 1,295 orphans on procuring identity documents, and outreach/training for new caregivers.

Africa Brotherhood Church, outside Nairobi
This support will enable church-based volunteers to conduct awareness raising about the needs of children affected by AIDS in the community. They will train 30 volunteers on nursing skills and child care to reach approximately 90 children. The funds will also help to establish a resource center for vulnerable children and their caregivers.

Kibera Community Self Helf Programme (KICOSHEP), Nairobi - Regrant
With this grant, KICOSHEP will replace computers and office equipment stolen in a robbery earlier this year. KICOSHEP implements education and livelihood programs that reach more than 650 of the estimated 50,000 vulnerable children in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Eastern Africa.

Mama Darlene Children’s Centre, Kangundo
These funds will enable the Centre to build a classroom and purchase play equipment for the 45 children it serves. Located in a poor neighborhood, the Centre provides health care, education, and meals to vulnerable children 3-14 years of age who would not attend school otherwise. Managed by parents, the Centre also runs a vegetable garden and refreshment kiosk as an income-generating activity.

$ 5,000

World Internet Resources for Education and Development (WIRED), Kiambu – Regrant
This grant will enable a group of youth affected by AIDS to manage a Community Health Information Center by providing funds for a computer and staff salaries. This award builds on a previous Firelight grant that supported a computer and internet skills training session for these youth held in March 2001.

$ 2,800

Malawi

Episcopal Conference Home Based Care Programme, Zomba
These funds will be used to initiate three small income generating projects—farming, small animal husbandry, and small business ventures—by providing skills-building workshops and start-up materials to approximately 500 guardians and independent children affected by AIDS.

Rwanda

Benishyaka Association’s Education Sponsorship Program for Orphans, Kigali – Regrant
Through their educational sponsorship program, Benishyaka Association has reached out to children throughout Rwanda orphaned by the 1990 war, the 1994 genocide and, increasingly, by HIV/AIDS. Though a careful selection process, Benishyaka ensures that disadvantaged youth can continue their studies into secondary school. This second year of funding will provide one year of school fees and related expenses for 150 children who were supported last year. Twenty of the these youth participated in a Firelight-funded pen pal exchange with a high school in California that explored the issues of daily life for youth dealing with the effects of war and HIV/AIDS.

South Africa

Botshabelo Babies Home, Kyalami – Regrant
Botshabelo Babies Home provides short to medium term shelter and care for abandoned babies and HIV positive children. They work closely with the local community, government agencies and adoption services to place children in long term homes. Not only have they developed an extensive national network, increasing their scope of impact, but they are also responding to the expressed needs of the local community and providing a wide variety of services to vulnerable children and families in their immediate location. The new grant will provide salary support for in-house and satellite caregivers and help cover project administration costs.

Tanzania

Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Musoma – Regrant
This grant will cover the salaries of one full-time and one part-time social worker to coordinate AIDS home care and outreach activities to vulnerable children. It will pay for 12 HIV prevention behavior change peer-led seminars for 600 youth.

Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Mwisenge, Musoma – Regrant
These funds will meet the costs of running a community school that offers computer and English classes, counseling, meals, and recreational activities for 40 vulnerable children. It will pay for the education of four nursery, 78 primary, and two secondary school pupils. The grant will also support the Sisters' hospital and home visiting of sick children and caregivers.

Maryknoll Mission Sisters, Nyakato, Mwanza – Regrant
Eighty-five primary and eight secondary school students will be educated. Funds will also be used in support of Youth Alive behavior change seminars for 60 youth, who will go on to conduct AIDS awareness events and recreational activities in their community to promote positive, fun leisure activities.

WAMATA Sengerema, Mwanza
This grant will cover the educational expenses, including school fees, uniforms, and stationary, for 250 primary school and 13 secondary school children and provide for vocational training of five youth. It will enable WAMATA to meet medical treatment and emergency food assistance needs of approximately 50 families affected by AIDS.

Uganda

Youth Alive Club, Apac District
The Youth Alive Club will provide Education for Life, Anti-AIDS workshops to approximately 500 young people, as well as train 180 peer educators. As part of their education campaign, they will organize video shows, music, drama and poetry festivals and two community sensitization seminars. They will also purchase a motorcycle to facilitate ongoing follow up and support to the peer educators.

Friends of Christ Revival Ministries (FOCRM), Busia
FOCRM will provide tuition assistance to 60 secondary school children, and purchase required school uniforms for 127 primary school children. They will also purchase computer equipment and vocational skills training equipment, including carpentry tools and four sewing machines.

Student’s Self-Helper Initiative (SSHINE), Jinja
SSHINE will provide three HIV/AIDS sensitization trainings and three behavior change communication workshops for students and teachers in three area schools. They will also provide a Life Skills and Human Values Development training to at least 80 primary and post-primary school children. The grant will also cover tuition and school materials for five vulnerable children.

Blessed Martyrs Orphanage Centre, Kampala
The Centre, serving 380 abandoned children, will utilize the grant to build a carpentry and woodworking workshop in order to provide job and vocational skills training opportunities.

Center for Environment Technology and Rural Development (CETRUD), Kasese
The philosophy driving CETRUD is that orphaned children grow and thrive more fully in family homes, rather than orphanages. In support of this, appropriate caretakers are identified in the community and CETRUD provides relevant training and support, both educational and financial. With this grant, CETRUD will provide small business management training to 17 caregivers and offer microcredit loans for the start up of new businesses.

Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme, Mukono
Funding will cover the purchase of a dairy cow, vegetable seeds and other supplies in order to provide income generating activities and improved nutrition to 300 care-giving families and the orphans for whom they care. The Programme will also provide training and instruction in animal husbandry and crop production.

Anglican Street Children Project, Lusaka – Regrant
The goal of the Anglican Street Children Project is to strengthen vulnerable communities, alleviating the hardships that force children onto the streets. They also provide longer-term care for orphans. Grant money will assist with school fees for 50 children and will provide food for 45 children in the residential facility.

Chikanta Community Schools Development Project (CCSDP), Choma
The primary focus of CCSDP is the provision of free education, via community schools, to orphaned and other disadvantaged children. The funding will assist CCSDP with the ongoing management and maintenance of ten of their 16 community schools.

Children in Distress (CINDI) - Kaloma Central, Kaloma
The overall mission of CINDI is to support orphaned and vulnerable children. Currently, there are nine branches operating throughout Zambia. Funds will cover the facilitation of workshops on income generating activities to 50 care-giving families, providing care to 250 orphans.

Children in Distress (CINDI) in Kitwe, Kitwe
CINDI will hold Anti-AIDS workshops with 500 youth, community group meetings with children and caregivers on HIV/AIDS issues and begin to implement programme monitoring and evaluation activities.

Children of the Most High Ministry, Choma
Children of the Most High Ministry provides shelter, care and community support to vulnerable families in an area with approximately 65 widows and 150 orphans. Funds will support women's income generating clubs, provide school fees, contribute to the building of a community school and pay the salaries of two community workers.

Development Aid from People to People (DAPP), Children's Town, Malambanyama Village
Two of the most important objectives of DAPP are to strengthen the capacity of guardians, schools and local communities to provide orphans with appropriate and affordable care and to increase awareness regarding the rights and needs of orphans. Funds will assist DAPP to meet these objectives by offering psychosocial counseling workshops to 40 caregivers and teachers and life skills workshops to 40 orphans and their caregivers. Funding will also cover educational materials and tools for income generating activities.

FLAME, Lusaka
The grant money will cover the improvement of an OVC rehabilitation transit centre serving 40 children and educational support (school fees, uniforms, shoes, bags and books) to 50 children at the FLAME center and in the community. Funds will also support the training of 30 caregivers from the Centre and community, in income generating activities and small business management.

Kaoma Cheshire Community Care Centre, Western Province – Regrant
Regrant funds will cover teachers' salaries and support ten family groups of children, allowing siblings to stay together. See below for a description.

New Horizon Orphanage, Lusaka
New Hope Orphanage strives to meet the life skills and psychosocial needs of girl street children. This grant will provide for life skills training—to include tailoring, baking, knitting, and housekeeping—for 22 girls ages 7-14 years who are not currently attending school due to lack of financial support. Funds will also cover vocational skills placements in the community and elementary school fees.

Senanga Orphan Day Centre, Senanga
This school for 175 orphans will build three classrooms and six latrines, hold a planning workshop for teachers and management, send one teacher to a Teacher Training College and purchase textbooks.

Dananai Centre, Murambinda
With this support, the Centre will: provide school fees to 400 vulnerable children; meet the needs of approximately 80 sick, homebound children; convene 25 day-long community mobilization workshops to generate support for children in difficult circumstances among community members; and train community members working with children affected by AIDS in home care and psychosocial support. Situated in the center of a large, rural district of Zimbabwe, the Dananai Centre conducts community outreach to meet the needs of more than 1,000 families affected by AIDS.

Farm Orphans Support Trust (FOST), Mashonaland Central Province
This grant will provide for tuition and related expenses of training six out-of-school youth in leadership skills, basic counseling, and emergency response at Camp Masiye (described below) so that they can serve as peer educators and mentors to approximately 300 younger children affected by AIDS on commercial farms in six districts of Zimbabwe. FOST youth leaders will give practical guidance and support young children through the bereavement process. They will establish youth clubs within six farming communities. This grant will also support networking meetings of the youth leaders and FOST staff and enable FOST to document the youth leadership process, to include production of a manual and other materials for future use.

Island Hospice, Harare – Regrant
Island Hospice's Children's Support Project offers critical psychosocial support to children who have lost their parents. Funding will be used to train caregivers, hospital workers, and trainers on psychosocial support techniques. The funds will also allow the Hospice to continue its group work with vulnerable children and offset some administrative costs.

Mother of Peace Orphanage Community, Mutoko
Mother of Peace Orphanage Community has built eight houses to shelter 155 vulnerable children. This grant will enable the organization to engage in the broader community by: conducting participatory workshops to raise awareness about children affected by AIDS; training families on practical skills to meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children; and offering economic empowerment opportunities. The program will reach more than 200 vulnerable children on rural homesteads.

Salvation Army Camp Masiye, Bulawayo – Regrant
Funds will support the Camp's Emergency Fund, which enables camp counselors to address urgent needs for assistance. Further funding will pay expenses for 12 Life Skills camps, reaching 1,200 youth. Camp Masiye's program supports youth affected by AIDS by training young people who are heads of households on leadership skills, helping them cope with personal loss, and offering them a recreational outlet.

St. Agnes Children’s Home & Creche, Gokwe
This grant will pay for furniture to upgrade the facilities at the Home.

Zimbabwe Synod of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa
(UCCSA) Bongani Orphan Care Programme, Bulawayo
These funds will enable UCCSA to train twelve church groups establishing programs for children affected by AIDS on organizational development issues and responding to the impact of the AIDS crisis on children in the local context. Through these programs, more than 150 volunteers will reach approximately 1,000 children with vocational training, psychosocial support, and emergency assistance.

Firelight Foundation Pen Pal Program Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa,
Uganda, United States and Zambia
During the 2000-01 school year, Firelight supported a pen pal exchange between The Alexandra After School Tutoring Program, Alexandra Township, South Africa and Anzar High School, San Juan Bautista, California. The high school students in the United States learned about the issues of HIV/AIDS in Africa and how children's lives in Africa are similar to their own. For the children in Africa the contact with U.S. students concerned with their lives was a source of hope. Building on the success of the initial pen pal exchange, Firelight Foundation expanded the program to eight partners in Africa and six schools in California. A model for such exchanges is currently being developed.

Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Board/North American Baptist Conference
Funds will support the development of an orphan care and outreach program to complement a prenatal HIV screening program funded by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Funds will provide 50 orphans with medical care and basic needs. The funds will also cover the costs of a child welfare coordinator's salary, training for family caregivers, office expenses, educational materials and travel costs.

Cameroon Medical Women Association, Bamenda
This grant supports a scholarship program for 30 children in primary and secondary school as well as ten children in vocational skills training. The grant also covers the children's medical care, food and clothing as well as program costs.

Catholic Diocese of Kitui—Orphan Support Program, Kitui - Regrant
This grant covers the costs of a workshop (trainers, materials, transportation) for 150 children to address the stigma and discrimination of HIV/AIDS. It will also fund the formation of peer support groups and the participation of the children's parents in property succession planning and will writing.

Catholic Diocese of Kitui—Orphan Support Program, Kitui
This grant will provide costs for training social workers and orphans, purchasing drugs and providing other social programs.

Global Strategies for HIV Prevention/Child Health Program, Kendu Bay
This grant will be matched with $ 7,000 from Global Strategies for HIV Prevention to support the Child Health Program of Kendu Bay. The grant will provide Bactrim for 200 children and 100 adults for one year as well as cover HIV screening tests, transportation costs, and funds for home visits.

Community Resource Mobilization Initiative Group (COREMI), Raibai
Funding will offer vocational training for 20 orphans, and counseling and training for 45 community AIDS educators.

Kibera Community Self Help Program (KICOSHEP), Nairobi
The grant, co-funded with the Lloyd Foundation, provides funds to support the basic needs of orphans (food, medicine, clothes, etc.); the training of caregivers in orphan-specific issues; and vocational training for orphans.

Mapendo and Action Women Association (MAWA), Mombasa
With this grant, MAWA will assist the orphans and guardians of their community by increasing their services. They intend to build a community center, school and clinic which will serve 500 orphans and 200 guardians. They will also cover costs associated with running these facilities.

Pandipieri Community Health Programme, Kisumu
In order to strengthen a community health program integrating preventative health care and child empowerment in the shanty towns of Kisumu, Firelight is funding the salaries of a nutritionist and child counselor, the training of 12 home-based care and child-care workers, and miscellaneous costs.

Positive Widows in Kenya (POWIK), Kajiado District, Rift Valley
The funds are to assist rural Maasai women and young girls with: home-based care, counseling and advocacy with an emphasis on children.

Rural Education and Economic Enhancement (REEP), Butula District
REEP will train orphans and their guardians in counseling, vocational skills, project management, and savings programs. See above for a description.

Saidia Furaha Organization, Athi River
Funds will provide orphans and vulnerable children with: primary school support, vocational training, and workshops. It will also cover some administrative costs.

Teenage Mothers and Children Family Health Care (TEMAC), Eldoret
The grant provides partial support for food and medicine to 75 orphans who live with guardians through the TEMAC program.

WEM Integrated Health Services (WEMIHS), Thika
The grant covers the cost of an orphan needs assessment, a community mobilization program, and the training of orphan care committees. It will also contribute to a day care feeding and learning program, the improvement of health care facilities, and a school bursary fund.

WiRED, Advanced Technical Assistance to Orphans, Mombasa
The grant will enable the purchase of six computers and the training of six AIDS orphans in a pilot program of computer learning at a conference in Mombasa.

Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK), Nairobi