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Cordaid and Partners reward Home Based Care Leadership in responding to HIV and AIDS. Win up to 15.000 Euro!
AIDS has changed the fabric of communities around the world and placed a burden on the lives of many people, especially girls and women, young and old. With health systems failing and people living longer with HIV thanks to access to Antiretrovirals (ARVs), mainly poor women, are increasingly forced to devote their time, energy, skills and the little resources to care for their family members at home and provide their services to the wider community, often at great expense to themselves. This invisible task-shifting is insufficiently recognised, valued and validated as work.
Prize of €15.000 and €5.000 for HBC Leadership
The Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development (Cordaid) and partners of the Caregivers Action Alliance’s (CAA) Organising Committee (HelpAge International, Huairou Commission, VSO International) as well as the World YWCA, reward and encourage leadership around the strengthening of home based care in responding to HIV and AIDS in the “global South” by awarding €15.000 for an organisation and €5.000 for an individual. Cordaid and partners are seeking applications from organisations or individuals committed to supporting home based care as a necessary, effective, and community-based initiative – recognising home based care as an insufficiently resourced, under-valued and unrecognized solution for mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.
How to submit
Submissions can be sent up to 15 September 2009. To download the Rules and Procedures as well as the Application Form, visit the website: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009. For more information please contact HIV_and_AIDS_Award@cordaid.nl or visit www.cordaid.nl.
News that Ecumenical Women constituents might find interesting, from all around the world.
- Gstaad Blog, 21 October 2008 – Slow progress for women in United Nations system
- Ms. Magazine, Spring 2005 – Women in the Congo
- New York Times, 17 October 2008 – Rape Victim’s Words help jolt Congo into Change
- Deauville Journal, 19 October 2008 – For women who lead, a forum of their own
- Market Watch, 21 October 2008 – Faith-based Organizations create Global Network to fight maternal death, AIDS, poverty
- New York Times, 13 October 2008 – Young Muslim Women drawing new lines in secular Turkey
Have a news story to share? Email alison AT ecumenicalwomen DOT org.
With much collaboration and input, Ecumenical Women have submitted a statement on financing for gender equality to the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women. Entitled “Justice for the poor and care for life and creation continue to be at the heart of the matter” the statement incorporates the six themes of the Monterrey Concensus on financing for development to financing for gender equality.
We welcome you to read it in preparation for the conference and to make your comments below.
