31 Districts
of Uganda, with the main office in Kampala
Mission:
The National Community of Women Living with AIDS (NACWOLA)
promotes positive living for women living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda through
psychosocial support, economic empowerment and access to essential services.
Who they serve:
Women in Uganda with
HIV/AIDS
What they do:
Empower HIV infected parents to support their children with family
memories, ensuring they survive parental loss with fewer traumas
Advocate for accessibility
to services such as anti-retroviral therapy and education for children
Income generating
activities such as ox ploughs, improved seeds, and skill development (e.g.,
handicrafts.)
Capacity building of the
board members for good governance of NACWOLA
Year founded:1992, by Catherine Etyang, Margaret Nalumansi, and
Kate Nalugya. (All have passed away.)
Website:www.nacwola.or.ug/
Needs:
Materials for decentralizing and setting up
offices in 23 Districts of Uganda (e.g., computers, copiers, internet
connection fees)
Constructing an office in Kampala that can also be used as a vocational
training center
Their story:
The three
founding women were part of the team that represented Uganda during the 8th HIV and AIDS
International Conference which took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands
in 1992. Women from 27 countries at this conference founded the International
Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW). On their return from Amsterdam, the three Ugandan women replicated the idea and
formed a similar organization at a national level in Uganda in the same year. The NACWOLA
network was founded in response to the desperate lack of information available
to HIV positive women at the time, which propagated a profound sense of
isolation. To date NACWOLA has a membership of about 40,000 women operating
in 31 traditional districts of Uganda.
