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HIV/AIDS Support Work
Today ERM is helping children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. With no home or family to take care of them they bear the financial burden of supporting themselves. There are also widows who lost their husbands due to HIV. They are also infected with HIV/AIDS. Many women were infected during the genocide by interahamwe (militia) soldiers who raped them spreading the disease as another form harm, or killing, during the genocide.

Today many of these women struggle to just find enough food to eat. Many of these widows can get the medicine they need to survive easier than they can get food. The government provides the medicines to keep the HIV/AIDS semi under control, but if they cannot get enough healthy nutritional foods the medicine can be as harmful as the disease itself, and many have died from taking the medicines without having the right balanced diet. They need both the medicine and a stable nutritional diet. Many of the widows do not have the skills to provide themselves with enough income to obtain their daily needs.

In order to train them and provide food for them, we have a farm produce truck project that we are working to get off the ground. That project will cost $36,000 US. This project will help us to train widows and orphans in skills that they can use to provide for their own daily needs.