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.

EFA International proudly announces that it is a grant recipient of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’s Volunteer Activities Support and Training (VAST) program. With the help of Peace Corps Volunteer technical …

The head of the health center in Godola recently chose three members of ASSYSGOD to serve as community coordinators for the identification of OVC (orphans and vulnerable children) in the area through a publicly-funded project. …

Once accepted as members of the EFA youth network, associations are eligible to receive a number of benefits, including seed money to start their own income generation activity (IGA). In June 2008, EFA worked with …