Through a World Renew partner in Uganda, the Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church in Kabale, Beatrice was tested for HIV and started an anti-retroviral regimen. She joined an AIDS support group in Kaharo where she receives weekly counseling and encouragement for living positively with AIDS. She also began to contribute to the group’s savings fund and soon qualified for a US$16 small business loan. 

“I started buying matoke (steamed bananas) to sell to local residents with the loan I received,” Beatrice says. “In the past, we were lucky to eat once a day, but with the money I make from my business I can now feed my family three meals a day!”
Today… Beatrice can embrace a life with AIDS and hope for the future.
 
Beatrice also received a grant from the Kaharo Orphan and Vulnerable Children’s Fund to pay for her children’s school fees, uniforms, and books. Today they attend school regularly, and Beatrice can embrace a life with AIDS and hope for the future.
 
“The Kaharo group has helped me a lot as a person living with AIDS. In five years, I am planning to buy land where I can build a decent house and start a garden. Now our family is able to eat and dress well,” she says, nodding and smiling, “and I even have soft shoes on my feet. God is great!”
 
World Renew’s work in the Kabale region is helping 65 Pentecostal Assemblies congregations care for church and community members who live with HIV or AIDS by “putting AIDS back on the agenda,” including:
  • Prevention programs for married couples and youth
  • Awareness training for pastors and church leaders
  • Volunteer training in comprehensive home-based and respite care
  • Counseling and support for people living with HIV and AIDS and their loved ones
  • Group savings and loan programs to improve livelihoods.
  • Support for orphans, vulnerable children, and their foster families

You can help more people who live in poverty, like Kibukire Beatrice, embrace life with AIDS with your gifts and offerings for World Renew on Embrace AIDS, Embrace LIFE Sunday.

Please give generously so that they too may have life “to the full."