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Be The Change International serves as project facilitator and offers overall project management, capacity building, financial administration, and monitoring and evaluation reporting for its partners. In addition to its role as facilitator, BTCI also serves as an outreach partner where it plays a vital role in the development of new international partnerships to provide needed funding, goods, services and technical assistance to help sustain its partners’ projects.
BTCI partners with FreshMinistries in developing the 6-Point Community Initiative, a holistic and portable apporoach to improving communities.
BTCI helps build FreshMinistries capacity by raising awareness and financial support for FreshMinistries’ urban core programs: jobs skills training program for the unemployed, economic development in distressed urban areas; support for the Jacksonville-based Neighborhood Resource Center, which direct-connects people living in immediate crisis with available social and civic services.
FreshMinistries is also a cornerstone partner in Be The Change International’s global mission to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Africa. BTCI supports FreshMinistries’ successful youth peer-to-peer HIV/AIDS education and prevention program, Siyafundisa, and offers capacity building assistance to Siyafundisa’s partners in South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia.
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Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies and the Institute for Reproductive Health contracts qualified individuals/organizations to provide community capacity building, HIV/AIDS training for professional nurses and community health care workers, and facilitates community needs assessments.
The infrastructure of the Anglican Church of South Africa - using its network of parishes as an outlet to distribute information and services - hosts HIV/AIDS prevention and educational sessions for people of all faiths, nationalities and races, and expedites the delivery of services, care and educational information into the surrounding communities and villages.
With its established presence in the community, reach into outlying rural areas, large and willing volunteer base and its acknowledged moral authority and ethos of compassion and human rights, the church is well placed to contribute significantly to the efforts to counter HIV & AIDS.
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa covers six countries – Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, as well as the Islands of St Helena and Ascension. All programs and projects in Southern Africa are coordinated by the Anglican AIDS Office, based in Cape Town. Initially set up in April 2003 to implement the Isiseko Sokomeleza (Building the Foundation) program, the office is now responsible for three programs, each with its own staff and funding, yet integrated into one ministry.
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