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		<title>Benefit Concert with Folk Singer Kristin Lems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, March 27, 2010
8 &#8211; 10 PM
Boston Workmen’s Circle
1762 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA
(Green Line C – Dean St Stop)
Join us for a short presentation about WE-ACTx’s work and to hear Kristin Lems, a feminist performing songwriter and folksinger from Evanston, IL and wonderful friend.
Kristin has performed with singers including Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Peter Paul and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/featured-events/benefit-concert-with-folk-singer-kristin-lems/</link>
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		<title>In-Kind Donations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WE-ACTx is actively seeking tax exempt donations of goods and services to support our programs in Rwanda. We are actively seeking donations of food, vehicles, laptop computers, video cameras, cell phones, clothing, children&#8217;s toys, sporting goods, and materials to support our income-generation programs. For further information on donations, please contact us at: us@we-actx.org
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		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/donate2/in-kind-donations/</link>
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		<title>Donate by Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mail your tax deductible donations made payable to WE-ACTx to:
WE-ACTx—584 Castro Street #416, San Francisco, CA 94114   415-863-4676 x3
WE-ACTx is a US based, 501C3 tax exempt organization, EIN# 56-2572210

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		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/donate1/donations-by-mail/</link>
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		<title>Volunteer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WE-ACTx appreciates your interest in volunteering with us &#8211; at both our US admin office, and at our clinics/programs in Rwanda.  Please send your bio/resume to us@we-actx.org and tell us about yourself, your skills, your interests, and we will get back to you.  Thanks again for your interest!
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		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/donate3/we-need-your-help/</link>
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		<title>Building Local Capacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with our efforts to build local capacity at all levels, technical, administrative, fundraising, and program-related, WE-ACTx has assisted our Rwandan staff in establishing a local Rwandan affiliate organization, WE-ACTx for Hope, through which some of our non-clinical programs are currently operating, and through which all non-clinical WE-ACTx programs will be administered as local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/news/building-local-capacity/</link>
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		<title>Income Generation and Food Support Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WE-ACTx’s income generation and food provision activities seek to address two major barriers in fostering health and wellness for Rwandan women, children and families struggling with HIV: poverty and lack of sufficient nutrition. In resource-poor settings, good nutrition is often lacking, which causes immune suppression and thus increases vulnerability to disease and may negatively influence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/programs/income-generation-and-food-support-program/</link>
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		<title>Research: Rwanda Women’s Interassociation Study and Assessment (RWISA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2005, WE-ACTx developed a longitudinal cohort study , enrolling nearly 1000 women in the Rwanda Women’s Interassociation Study and Assessment (RWISA). With the approval of the Rwandan government Ethics Committee and the Institutional Review Board of the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, RWISA is the largest research study in Rwanda, led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/news/research-rwanda-women%e2%80%99s-interassociation-study-and-assessment-rwisa/</link>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Education Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the Rwandan Government has made primary school free for all children, addition school-related expenses prevent the poorest of Rwandans from taking advantage of this free education. Uniforms, school supplies, books, food and transportation are among them. The government also provides a small number of secondary school scholarships to the most qualified students. All other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/programs/childrens-education-network/</link>
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		<title>Community Legal Education &amp; Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The community legal education and training project provides tools for educating Rwandan people infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, about their basic legal rights around health care and HIV to empower them to take action to resolve legal problems they may face. In summer 2006, WE-ACTx held an eight-week legal education program for the leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/programs/legal-education/</link>
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		<title>Peer Education and Outreach</title>
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WE-ACTx for Hope participates in a countrywide collaborative HIV prevention and outreach program in which large scale community mobilization and sensitization campaigns are implemented throughout the country. WE-ACTx for Hope trains HIV+ peer educators within our grassroots partners using a ”train the trainer” model, imparting skills in basic HIV prevention and positive living with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.we-actx.org/programs/education/</link>
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