Posts Tagged ‘HIV services’

Young Heroes’ joint board meeting occurs once a year. Board members from the U.S. have the opportunity to observe programs in action on the ground, and attend important face-to-face meetings with in-country board members. U.S. board members saw an abundance of progress: Local communities building playgrounds, ongoing projects at Neighborhood

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Young Heroes Foundation, our U.S.-based arm, completed its eighth Swazi Cycle adventure. Our team met close to 92% of its fundraising goal to help orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), and fund life support grants, medical care and vocational training programs. Throughout eight adventures, Young Heroes Foundation has raised more than

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Young Heroes launched a new three-year initiative, The Halt Project, in October 2018. The aim: Halt the spread of HIV and reverse its impact on Swazi society by targeting a crucial population – youth aged 15–24 who are out of school or in college. Thanks to a grant from the

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Building on the success of our previous Umliba project, Young Heroes launched Insika Ya Kusasa (“The Pillars of Tomorrow”) in October 2018. The program targets youth aged 15-24 in order to prevent new HIV infections and reduce vulnerability among orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), and adolescent girls and young women

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