CHABHA supports vulnerable children and youth who are affected by HIV/AIDS by sustaining and creating strong grassroots community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide services and experiences to empower its members.
Population
Affected children and youth are those who have lost one or both parents to AIDS, live in a household headed by an HIV-infected adult, and/or are infected themselves. Partner organizations work with affected children and youth who live in deeply impoverished families.
Objectives:
- Develop partnerships with grassroots CBOs that share CHABHA mission and build organizational capacity;
- Provide funding for CBOs programmatic activities that support children’s education, health and psychosocial wellbeing and lead to independence;
- Expand the CHABHA network to include community-based organizations throughout Eastern Africa that address the needs of HIV/AIDS affected children and youth.
CHABHA believes that all children have a fundamental right to education, health, safety and a nurturing environment in their dependent years. We serve children and young adults affected by the ravages of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. We applaud their resilience and support their capacity for self-help by:
- Fostering physical well-being, social health, and economic independence through direct educational assistance, innovative small business opportunities, and job training;
- Engaging in collaborative decision-making with children and project leaders;
- Working directly with community-based programs governed by community-based leaders;
- And seeking to reach and educate as many supporters as possible to create awareness of the plight of affected children
Website address: www.chabha.org
Physical Address: KG 218, Kisimenti, Remera, Kigali
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 334, Kigali
Directions to find Country Office: Kisimenti/Remera, road behind La Nouvelle Planete, towards Adventist church, and near CIVITAS Hotel.
Began work in Rwanda in year: 2003-2004
Organization Leadership:
- Country Director:Patrick NIMUBONA
- E-mail: patrick@chabha.org / nimubona.patrick@gmail.com
- Cell Phone: +250 788 684 622
- Accountant: Chantal GAHIGIRO
- E-mail: chantal@chabha.org / gahigichantal@yahoo.fr
- Cell Phone: +250 788 793 394
Areas of Operation:
We work in Kicukiro, Gasabo and Bugesera districts.
- Advocacy
- Curriculum Development
- Capacity Building
- Access to Education
- Girls Education
- Orphans & vulnerable students
- Leadership & Management
- Parenting/Community Education
- Early Childhood Education/ development