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Hivos: We don’t normally associate cattle and pigs with clean and hygienic but their manure can be used for clean energy whereby people get a chance on development without climate pollution! In Kenia this project contributes to the realization 24 biogas installations and is part of the larger Africa Biogas Partnership Programme which is realized together with SNV and local organizations. In general a family of more than five persons can be supported in their energy needs from one biogas installation. The overall objective of Kenya Biogas is to contribute to the achievement of the MDGs through the implementation biodigesters as a local, sustainable energy source. The use of Biogas reduces greenhouse gas emissions, saves wood and produces sustainable energy and especially new opportunities and chances for women.

The goal of the project is to create, through a partnership, a Health Information Centre in Pietermaritzburg (KwaZulu-Natal) in South Africa for the purpose of educating the local community on the identification, symptoms and basic care with regards to basic illnesses that effect and affect a community. Another goal of this project is to provide healthcare education and healthcare information to the local people from all walks of life, especially those living in remote areas. Our mission is to empower local people to take care of their own health, the health of their family and of their community. Objectives: 1) To educate caregivers (healthcare workers) in the community with basic healthcare knowledge; 2) To create a train-the-trainer program to train community members and caregivers of the children of South Africa and equipe them with the relevant skills and knowledge; 3) To provide the community with correct information about identification and treatment of basic illnesses; 4) To educate the community using materials and programs created by the World Health Organization; and 5) To run training programs for parents/caregivers that are living in the area of the HICs or attend the HICs as outpatients. Apart from providing training and empowering healthcare workers, the centres will also provide support for parents whose children have been hospitalised for extended periods of time as well as providing stimulation programs for these children.

With the construction of a new SOS children’s village in Santa Cruz del Quiché, we want to provide a loving home for 108 orphaned and abandoned children and further generations. In the new SOS children’s village these children will grow up in a healthy environment, with access to schooling and with the love and attention they deserve. The SOS children’s village includes a social centre from which vulnerable families in the community will be supported. In this social centre day-care, food and medication will be provided for the children. Social workers from SOS Children’s Villages will educate the community on respecting the rights of children and heads of the family will be supported to become economically self-sustaining by offering workshops and training on income generating activities.

In the central, southern part of Africa, a giant vision is being realised. The governments of five countries are coming together to create a superpark, called the Kavango/Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). KAZA will be the largest nature park in the world, incorporating areas of Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. An important step to the realisation of this vision is to create the Elephant Corridor which will link the Chobe National Park in Botswana, through Kasika and Impalila Conservancies in Namibia, to Kafue National Park in Zambia.

By placing solar panels on family houses of the SOS Children’s Villages Jos, Nigeria, we will reduce CO2 production and the operation (energy) costs of the facility.

We want young people everywhere to be inspired to join dance4life, to take action to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS and improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Youth who have gone through our schools programme and are active in their communities are called agents4change. dance4life offers agents4change ways to stay involved after having finished the schools programme. Their actions raise awareness, trigger other young people to become active in pushing back HIV and AIDS, strengthen the sexual and reproductive health and rights of themselves and others around them and ultimately draw them into a forceful youth movement with a positive voice. Our goal of 1 million agents4change leading the movement is a powerful symbol of this commitment.

By providing safe means of transport, pioneer Daisy is able to visit more families and friends of missed or murdered factory workers to support them. Also, more journalists are able to report on bad working conditions of factory workers.