WE-ACTx

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In-house sewing and crafts cooperative
WE-ACTx has organized its own in-house sewing and crafts cooperative, INEZA, to make dolls, clothing accessories (hand bags, computer sleeves, etc.) and other crafts for sale in the international market as an effort to develop a sustainable source of income for women on HIV treatment. Over the past year, we have [...]

WE-ACTx developed pediatric AIDS care and a family based support program in 2005, Medical care is made possible through the generous and on-going support of the Keep a Child Alive (KCA) Foundation, for the continuous operation of the Keep a Child Alive Center of Excellence Icyuzuzo Clinic. The family support program was made possible by [...]

In collaboration with our grassroots partners and the Rwandan government, WE-ACTx has provided VCT services since October of 2005, with both fixed and mobile teams, testing over 24,500 women, children and men. Our mobile teams coordinate with our grassroots partners to bring the services deep into the community, with advance outreach.. VCT is provided in [...]

WE-ACTx’s initial intervention toward accessing HIV medications for Rwandan women survivors of sexual violence and genocide involved working with the grassroots women’s groups to identify their needs for access to HIV education and treatment services, providing them with technical assistance and access to medical experts to develop concrete action plans and strategies to access the [...]

WE-ACTx works in partnership with the Rwandan government and its 24 partner associations to support a number of different programs in Rwanda. Rwanda programs include:CLINICAL SERVICES:
Voluntary Counseling and Testing:
WE-ACTx began its VCT program in September 2005. We now have a stationary and 3 mobile VCT teams in Kigali and greater Kigali, each staffed by a [...]