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Gardens for Health International

Region/Community: HIV+ individuals in Rwanda

Description: Gardens for Health International (GHI), a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, strives to create sustainable solutions for providing nutritional support and economic empowerment to HIV-positive individuals in Rwanda. GHI’s program includes three integrated components: (1) agricultural cooperatives comprised exclusively of HIV-positive individuals and their families; (2) education and training in nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and small business skills; and (3) income generation through crop and seed sale. Through its partnership with the Rwandese Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (RRP+), GHI plans to expand its network of community nutrition-through-agriculture programs throughout Rwanda.

In the Press:

Washington Post: "The Amazing Adventures of Supergrad" (June 8, 2008)

From Emma: In the summer of 2006, I interned with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Rwanda. I had been inspired by the Clinton Foundation’s noble mission of achieving universal access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), the drug treatment necessary to sustain the lives HIV-positive individuals. Yet, through my fieldwork, I learned that malnutrition severely compromises the efficiency and efficacy of ART. A fellow intern and I founded GHI to address this “nutrition gap” in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Rwanda.