Funding provided by: Ghana Business Development Services Fund
An empowering factor for people living with HIV is having the ability to work and earn a regular income. AFAWI launched the Livelihood Project for the members of its support group for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to give them a sustainable source of income and an understanding of business skills.
With the generous assistance of the Ghana Business Development Services Fund, the PLWHA group were able to purchase eight rabbits and one acre of farmland in 2009.
They employ a local farmer to cultivate the land to grow pineapples and to manage the farm, which had its first harvest in September 2010. AFAWI made arrangements with a national juice-manufacturing company to purchase the pineapples and the group plan to continue breeding the rabbits and selling them once they reach a mature size.
The PLWHA group will use the proceeds of their work to purchase anti-retroviral drugs needed to treat their disease.
