Recent AHF Fund grant recipient Dream Village in Rwanda works to improve the well-being of more than 600 teen mothers living with HIV by providing nutritional guidance and support across 12 health facilities. AHF established the AHF Fund in 2012 to address the insufficient funding for smaller HIV/AIDS community service organizations globally, prioritizing those demonstrating […]
This has been enabled by donor funding (Global Fund) and local initiatives such as the Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) model that has for the past five years increased access to HIV/Aids information, treatment and care among young Rwandans. The CATS model, implemented by Dream Village Rwanda and the Zvandiri program in Zimbabwe has been […]
Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and partners have recognized and recommended the need to scale up the Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) model that has for the past five years increased access to HIV/Aids information, treatment and care among young Rwandans. The CATS model, a youth led program, was adopted from the Zvandiri program in Zimbabwe […]
Dream Village Organization recently convened a celebratory event to acknowledge its remarkable strides in implementing the CATS model. This model offers a comprehensive array of specialized services designed specifically for children, adolescents, and young people living with HIV. The CATS model aims to address various critical aspects of HIV care and support, including promoting awareness, […]
The ceremony has taken place at Rwanda Nook Hub headquarters on Saturday, April 1, 2023, bringing together children, parents, local authorities, private sector and various investors in arts, fashion and design to observe the talents of the graduates in various products by themselves, which they made over the last three months. Established in 2019, Rwanda […]
Rwanda Nook Hub (RNH) held its forth graduation where children from unprivileged backgrounds showed off creative skills that could contribute to Rwanda’s target to produce locally made products. RNH is a community based center that opened in 2019 in Gahanga sector, Kicukiro district and uses the self-learning model to turn disadvantaged youth into Rwanda’s next […]
It is a sunny and bright day as all Dream Village (DV) Rwanda beneficiaries are assembled at Kigali Parents School grounds to celebrate the 2022 Dream Village Day. Alice Umuganwa, one of the girl beneficiaries at Dream Village delivers to her friends a poem called “My life is in my hands. Do you really know […]
At least 35 children who dropped out from schools in recent years have graduated from Rwanda Nook Hub (RNH)in Gahanga sector, Kicukiro District, aspiring to be entrepreneurs in diverse sectors such as art, technical and vocational labour force. The finalists benefited from the center’s self-learning initiative and acquired skills in Welding, Painting, Culinary Arts, Carpentry, […]
Besides COVID-19, HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the most disruptive threats to Rwanda’s socia-economic development. . Over 220,000 people are HIV positive out of a 12 million total population with a prevalence of 3% nationwide and the highest numbers being in Kigali with over 54,000 cases. The government, through support of the US government (Rwf1.6trillion […]
