Scenarios from Africa began as a way to educate youth about HIV/AIDS prevention through a variety of forms of media. Scenarios holds contests every year where students can submit songs, poems, stories, dialogues, cartoons, plays, etc. Selected presentations will work with internationally acclaimed directors to produce a short movie to present their project. More information and details can be found here.
Voices of Health Project
Voices of Health started in 2009 and is funded bynaction medeor, a German NGO, until 2013. The project uses interactive theater to encourage a responsible and preventive behavior concerning HIV/AIDS, Family Planning and Sexual Reproductive Health and at the same time to reduce discrimination and stigmatization of PLWHA. Community Theater Troupes inform and sensitize approx. 43.200 individuals and community members within 4 years. Also Voices of Health improves the physical, psychosocial, and economic living conditions of 12 cooperative of PLWHA. This is achieved by assisting with setting up and developing income generating activities. The outcomes of these activities are a greater acceptance of and demand for their products and services, an increase in their production and an improved state of health.
Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria R6 Project
This project provides vocational training and cooperative development for vulnerable people organized in cooperatives and Anti-AIDS clubs.
Behavior Change and Social Marketing (BCSM) Project
The vision of BCSM is to strengthen the capacity of Rwandan Partner Organizations, communities and private sector distribution networks to promote healthy behaviors and to increase access to lifesaving health products though social marketing. BCSM is funded with the support of USAID. 120 peer educators trained by RAPP and out of school peer educators trained by youth centers conduct the outreach activities. These will consist of regular small, short discussion groups on topics that the peer educators have been trained in, with role plays during those discussions. Working with a small professional group of trained theater actors, RAPP creates plays for special events aimed to increase uptake of mobile Voluntary Counseling and Testing, and promote condom use among target groups of most at risk youth in "hot spots", collaborating with youth center (center Dushinze).
In School Project
The In School Project began in 2004, the project provides technical training/support and theatre competitions for school youth clubs that are focused on educating themselves and their peers about HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. The project also empowers Orphans and Vulnerable Children affected and or infected by HIV/AIDS to continue school.
Rwanda Knits
Rwanda Knits provides hand operated, American made knitting machines, technical, and business training to low income Rwandan women. Our program enables them to increase their incomes through economically sustainable knitting cooperatives, through which they produce garments for their domestic market and export markets. Through a USAID grant Rwanda Knits has enabled over 1,200 women to earn a living through making and selling their knitted goods. The organization has provided over 600 knitting machines and training to women throughout the country, now forming 29 knitting cooperatives. Out of this 3 formed the country's first Secondary (umbrella type) Artisan Cooperative. The project has been described as one of USAID Rwanda's most successful income producing projects.
