If I kept it to myself - World YWCA

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If I kept it to myself Contents 3 Foreword: Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, General Secretary, World YWCA 4 Introduction: Kanjoo Mbaindjikua, Project Coordinator 5 Glossary of Terms 7 Good practices in Action: 7 Advocacy 8 • Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga - Bolivia 12 • Pen Moni - Cambodia 15 • Lydia Rwechungura - Tanzania 17 • Sybil Olivera - Argentina 20 • Frika Chia Iskandar - Indonesia 23 Tool Box: Speak Out 24 Tool Box: Fund-raising 25 Education 26 • Vidah Bossa - Uganda 28 • Tuwilika Heita - Namibia 31 • Alejandra Bustos - Chile 33 • Nakibuule Sylvia- Uganda 37 • Nastassia Ladzik - Belarus 39 • Mphatso Tambala - Malawi 42 Tool Box: Share Knowledge 45 Care and Support 46 • Constance Shumba - Zimbabwe 49 • Florence Masuliya - Uganda 51 • Phumzile Ndlovu - South Africa 55 • Agnes Njeri Wanjiku - Kenya 57 • Mwelwa Chibuye - Zambia 59 Tool Box: Give a Helping Hand 61 Media and Communications 62 • Princess Kasune Zulu - Zambia 64 • Belinda Ngwadzai - Zimbabwe 67 • Joya Banerjee - USA 71 • Felicita Hikuam - Namibia 74 • Sophie Dilmitis - Zimbabwe 77 Tool Box: Attract Attention 79 Pioneers 80 • Asunta Wagura - Kenya 82 • Fikile Dlamini - Swaziland 85 • Trinh Thi Thuy Ngan - Vietnam 88 • Promise Mthembu - South Africa 91 • Emma Tuahepa-Kamapoha - Namibia 95 Tool Box: Start An Organisation 96 Young Women intervene in a world with AIDS 2
Young women intervene in a world with AIDS Foreword Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, General Secretary, World YWCA The Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior once wrote that ‘THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF HUMANITY IS NOT WHERE IT STANDS IN THE TIME OF COMFORT BUT WHERE IT STANDS IN THE TIME OF CHALLENGE, CRISIS AND TRAGEDY’. Humankind has failed to adequately address the gross social and gender inequities that continue to divide us. It is in times like these that not only our kindness and compassion are on trial but our basic viability as a species. Despite hardship and challenges, women around the globe are at the forefront of interventions and are changing the course of the HIV and AIDS pandemic through hard work and unwavering commitment. Driven by their strength, some young women living with HIV have dedicated their lives to improving the status of people living with HIV and AIDS in their communities and countries. All YWCA programmes empower women and girls. Being independent and having a voice enables them to take responsibility for their own lives and to provide leadership in response to HIV and AIDS. The current statistics on the HIV pandemic and the fact that women, especially young women and girls, are disproportionately affected by poverty and HIV and AIDS, were a wake-up call for the YWCA. Since the early 1990s HIV and AIDS have been a priority in many YWCAs. With sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS programmes now operating in over 60 countries, health programmes and community education strategies have been adapted to bring HIV and AIDS to the forefront of YWCA advocacy work at all levels. The World YWCA Global Strategy on HIV and AIDS provides the framework for these activities. Our overall goal of educating women and girls around the world on HIV prevention methods and offering skills and tools to women already infected with HIV promote their lives to be healthier, longer and more productive. The YWCA believes that by providing safe places for open discussion around sex and sexuality, we contribute towards women in particular and people in general to regard HIV as a virus that we are all learning to live with, rather than seeing it as a punishment based on moral judgements. Much has been done but there is still a long way to go. Our focus must therefore remain unshakable, and it is thanks to the relentless efforts of women such as the ones in this book, that the candle of hope continues to burn. Through this publication, the World YWCA and its partners highlight and honour these women leaders of the world. Whether they are care-givers, heads of households, peer supporters, educators, founders of organisations or ambassadors of hope, they have done all of this without asking for any reward and most of them in the face of great adversity. Through hard work they are making changes and alleviating the pain of women and girls infected and affected by HIV and AIDS and their communities across the globe. The World YWCA is a founding member of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. As a member of the Leadership Council of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, I wish to acknowledge their support in publishing this book. 3
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