PROGRAMMES & ACTIVITIES
  • Economic Empowerment of Women Living with HIV and AIDS
Since its inception, WUAAG has implemented a number of activities that seeks to economically empower women living with HIV/AIDS. With support from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), National AIDS Control Programme, Hope for African Children’s Initiative (HACI) Ghana, Ghana AIDS Commission and SWAA Ghana, WUAAG has trained a number of its members in income generating activities like tie-and-dye/batik making; bead making; screen printing; and snail and mushroom farming. At least sixty-two (62) WUAAG members have participated in and benefited from the aforementioned income-generating activities in the last year.
With support from the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Ghana, WUAAG has been operating a coca-cola stand at Madina, from where products of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Ghana are sold to the general public.

All income generated from each of the above income-generating activities are divided into two. The first half of profits is recycled back into the project to facilitate the expansion and sustainability of the project, whereas the other half is equally distributed among WUAAG members who participated in the specific activity.

  • Promotion of positive living among women living with HIV/AIDS
This is an important project, which the organization has been implementing since its inception. This is achieved through a proportionate combination of emotional, physical, medical, nutritional, economic and psychosocial support to women living with HIV/AIDS. WUAAG promotes positive living among its members and also among all PLWHA who are reached either directly or indirectly by WUAAG’s programmes and activities. Apart from projects aimed directly at PLWHA to promote positive living among them, WUAAG in the last year, organized a series of radio programmes in the Eastern, Central and Greater Accra Regions to promote positive living among PLWHA. Prior to radio programmes, sixty (60) WUAAG members were trained in two separate workshops as advocates for the promotion of positive living among PLWHA. The radio programmes were organized with support from the Canadian International Development Agency
  • Provision of Nutritional and Medical Support
With support from the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) and the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), WUAAG has been able to provide nutritional support in the form of monthly food rations (rice, eggs, vegetable oil, wheat, Wheat and Soya Blend (WSB), beans, etc.) to its members. Provision of medical support in the form of multivitamins and food supplements among others has also been one of the services WUAAG has been able to offer to its members over the years. Also, all members who participate in the tie-and-dye and bead making are provided with one square meal a day (for three days in a week). All 75 members under the MSHAP (from DANIDA, under the supervision of the Ghana AIDS Commission) received ˘50,000.00 every month as a contribution towards the payment of their hospital bills. All members who are on antiretroviral therapy received an additional ˘50,000.00 every month for their treatment under the same Programme. With support form HACI Ghana, all the members have been registered under National Health Insurance Scheme, enabling the members and their dependents to benefit form the scheme. The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), under the MSHAP has been finding the renewal of members’ National Health Insurance.
  • Provision of Psychosocial Counseling
With a high incidence of stigmatization and discrimination towards PLWHA in the country, the need for psychosocial counselling cannot be undermined. This service is available to all members of WUAAG and the general public on a daily basis. Counselling services are also offered via phone and the phone numbers of trained counsellors have been distributed to this effect. With support from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), a counselling and referral unit has also been set up at WUAAG’s multi-purpose resource centre. Here, counselling services are rendered to members and other women living with HIV/AIDS on a daily basis. Previously, there was no privacy when people come to WUAAG for counselling services because private space was simply not available. At the centre, one of the most essential features of a counselling unit has been achieved. Cases beyond the reach of WUAAG are referred to the appropriate service providers. So far three people have been referred from WUAAG’s counseling center to appropriate service providers, as their situation required services which WUAAG does not provide.
  • Testimony Giving
Members of WUAAG continue to share their life experience with members of the general public upon invitation.
 
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