{"id":3579,"date":"2014-03-07T02:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2014-03-07T02:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T02:48:59","slug":"grantee-highlight-faith-hope-love-family-service-association-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/grantee-highlight-faith-hope-love-family-service-association-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grantee Highlight: Faith Hope Love Family Service Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Faith Hope Love Family Service Association Project based in Hawassa, Ethiopia has enlisted the aid of AWDF to help it achieve its goal of empowering women and OVCs towards HIV\/AIDS prevention and controlling efforts. AWDF, along with the Association, has provided training and start-up capital to many disadvantaged women across the African continent. This program gives women social, economic, psychological and health empowerment so that they can develop a way of earning a stable income, to support themselves and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cattle-keeping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3810  \" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717im_\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Cattle-keeping-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs. Tirunigo Samie pictured above with her cattle.\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Tirunigo Samie is one of the beneficiaries of the AWDF\/Faith Hope Love Family Service Association project. She is HIV Sero-positive and a mother of five children. Her husband died six years ago and she now cares for her children independently. Before joining the AWDF programme, she had no source of income and had not been able to find employment due to her deteriorating health condition.\u00a0 As a result, her children were not attending school, she could not feed them and could not afford to pay their fees.\u00a0 At best, her children were fed once a day by a neighbour. She sent some of her children to the street and some of them to her relatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sheep-breadin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3811  \" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717im_\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sheep-breadin-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Samie tends to her goats, keeping them strong and healthy so they can produce delicious milk. \" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When she joined the AWDF supported programme she was encouraged to begin treatment and so she started taking ART (anti-retroviral therapy) and her health improved.\u00a0 After counselling and training she received a start-up capital of $266 (5,000.00 Ethiopian birr) from the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) project and started her own business.\u00a0 She is engaged in urban agriculture and sheep breeding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Urban-agriculture-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3812  \" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140307160717im_\/http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Urban-agriculture-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Samie stands proudly in a part of her garden. \" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She grows different vegetables in her small garden and keeps goats and sheep who provide milk that generates income. After about six months of running the business she has experienced a vast improvement in her life.\u00a0 With improved health she is better able to take care of her garden and has a constant supply of fresh vegetables to boost her nutrition and that of her children.\u00a0 She has become capable of feeding her family, the children look healthier, they have gone back to school, they are better clothed and she has developed excellent saving habits.\u00a0 She says, \u201cThanks to AWDF I am enjoying my life, I have work, I am socially and psychologically competent enough and empowered, that I can support my children and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faith Hope Love Family Service Association Project based in Hawassa, Ethiopia has enlisted the aid of AWDF to help it achieve its goal of empowering women and OVCs towards HIV\/AIDS prevention and controlling efforts. 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