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Sisterhood Exchange Program

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Organic Health Response
Implementation Partner(s): 
IMANI Women's Workshop,Organic Health Response,Advocate Safehouse Project
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
Organic Health Response (OHR)

Scale

Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
2-IMANI Women's Workshop & Advocate Safehouse Project
Replication: 
The Sisterhood Exchange Program connects HIV+ women of Mfangano Island, Kenya with local and global sister organizations to model "positive living", increase social support, and train in entrepreneurial craft making.
Upscaling: 
Glenwood Springs resident Nancy Reinisch will travel to Mfangano Island to lead a crafts training workshop and connect the women of the Ekialo Kiona Crafts Cooperative with their sisters of the Advocate Safehouse Project.
Summary: 

The Sisterhood Exchange Program (SEP) seeks to improve the lives of rural women by connecting HIV+ women from different communities around the globe into one social support network. The goal of the exchange program is to model "positive living," increase social solidarity, and train in entrepreneurial craft making.

Program goals/rationale: 

Objectives:

  • To foster cultural exchange between women of different geographical and cultural backgrounds.

  • To establish meaningful relationships between American and Kenyan women in rural communities facing similar challenges of poverty, intimate partner violence, and ill-health.

T* o foster positive living in women with HIV in Western Kenya by providing the opportunity to meet and interact with other positive women.

Key program components: 

To build support, generate income, and reduce stigma among women living with HIV/AIDS and to foster positive living in women with HIV in Western Kenya by providing the opportunity to meet and interact with other positive women.

The Sisterhood Exchange Program (SEP) represents a unique collaboration of inspired grassroots activists amoung the IMANI Women's Workshop in Eldoret, Kenya, the Organic Health Response on Mfangano Island, Kenya, and the Advocate Safehouse Project in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

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