EFA International is proud to be featured in Global Giving’s Open Challenge from September 1st – September 30th.
Our Challenge: at least 50 gifts from 50 unique supporters to raise at least $4,000 to continue our …
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.
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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.
The members of AWALLA are currently benefiting from the assistance of a new Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) posted in their region. The PCV is now working with AWALLA to improve their access to treatment, as …
In early 2009, ABEPSA officially joined offices with AJEPS in their office space in Maroua. This partnership allowed AJEPS to pay off outstanding rent payments and ABEPSA to establish a permanent office.
The collaboration has proven …
Healing, in the anthropological sense, is a multi-sensorial process that carries an individual along the continuum from illness to wellness. In the case of people living with HIV or AIDS, “wellness” cannot be defined as an absence of the virus or as the success of a “cure”. Rather, a more holistic definition of “wellness” should be employed. A person living with HIV or AIDS is in a state of “wellness” when he or she has embraced a whole sense of him or herself and moved from a state of despair and confusion to hope and self-reclamation. The associations in the EFA network strive to create deeper, truer connectivity to self and others. As such, the associations offer an opportunity for people infected with HIV or AIDS to come into a state of wellness…
Purchase and Sale of Foodstuffs
Due to the 9 month long dry season in northern Cameroon, important cereals such as millet, corn, and soy are cultivated, dried, and stored for use during the year. Just after …
Not too long ago, I decided to visit a hospital where many of the association members go for their health care.
Relatively speaking, this hospital is a good one. It is private, meaning that the patients pay for their services—and the bills can quickly add up! There is a lab and a pharmacy on site which also makes for better, more streamlined, faster services.
EFA International is thrilled to announce the arrival of the newest member of the regional office staff! Caitlyn Bradburn is a Health Peace Corps volunteer who has been posted to EFA’s regional office for the …
