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Candle making

We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from their projects, to enable them meet the costs of basic needs such as: household utilities, food, fuel for lighting, clothing, and costs of their children’s schooling such as uniforms, books and exam fees.

Handcraft Making

We build the skills, knowledge and capacity of single parents through community-based groups, to engage in participative processes of needs assessment, drawing up and implementing sustainable strategies to enable them to overcome conditions of poverty. These approaches involve the implementation of various income generating activities/projects (IGA) at either individual or group-level for the beneficiary single parents. We aim to empower beneficiary poor and disadvantaged single parents to provide an additional and reliable income for their households through the proceeds realised from their projects, to enable them meet the costs of basic needs such as: household utilities, food, fuel for lighting, clothing, and costs of their children’s schooling such as uniforms, books and exam fees.

Home Based Care - HIV

Since 2005 Advantage Africa has been working with Rescue Team for HIV & AIDS in Uganda to support families affected by HIV & AIDS through a long term Home Based Care project. Adults and children who test positive for HIV are supported by Rescue Team to come to terms with and understand and accept their diagnosis. They are visited at home to develop a plan for their future including the provision of factual information, medical and nutritional advice, and psychological support especially concerning the effects of stigma and discrimination. For people who are suffering more severe sickness with AIDS and its associated opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis and meningitis, Rescue Team assist with referrals to hospitals but also help the families cope by providing food packages and medication. Rescue Team also form village self-help groups where people can find mutual help and advice to tackle the isolation and fear people with HIV often experience.