When I arrived as the next Peace Corps Volunteer to serve with EFA International, it was clear this program was a huge success. Members felt empowered and attitudes and behaviors of both HIV-positive and HIV-negative people in the community were changing. I thought to myself: this is great, but how can it be better? I realized, the previous Volunteer had created this empowering and effective program, but now my role was to make it sustainable, to make it EFA’s program and not the Volunteer’s.
Read the full story »Our self-sustaining HIV+ youth groups fight stigma and provide professional and personal growth opportunities.
A community garden provides education and nutrition for people orphaned by HIV/AIDS and the Rwandan genocide.
EFA relies on the volunteer time and financial support of generous people like you. How can you make a difference?
From the front lines to behind-the-scenes, meet the people who are fighting the good fight for youth affected by HIV/AIDS.
Education impacts individuals, families, communities, nations, and the globe.
Following leadership training in January, HIV+ youth support groups ABEPSA, ASSYSGOD and AWALLA were legalized as registered associations in Cameroon and officially joined EFA International’s HIV+ Youth Network. EFA’s HIV+ youth Technical Assistants worked with …
With the support of a grant from Boston Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (BARPCV), EFA International conducted a leadership and organizational development workshop in January 2008 for the executive officers of four HIV+ youth support …
This video, from Giving Children Hope, outlines some of the issues that EFA also works to address in Cameroon.
Pastor Andre Talla speaks of the need for micro-enterprise projects in Cameroon as a form of economic …
