{"id":4046,"date":"2020-12-01T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:50:19","slug":"world-aids-day-2020-grandmother-given-a-business-boost-for-their-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day 2020: Grandmother given a business boost for their businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0259-xx-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0259-xx-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0259-xx-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0259-xx-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC_0259-xx.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stephen Lewis Foundation launched the\nGrandmothers project in\nresponse to the emerging crisis faced by African grandmothers as they struggled\nto raise millions of children orphaned by AIDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In a bid to break the poverty circle among vulnerable\ngroups served under Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative 60 grandmothers\nwere mobilized to receive a12 week\u2019s entrepreneurship training with the aim of\nimproving household welfare including development of business ideas and\nimprovement of already existing businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngrandmothers were rewarded with a booster in form of money to invest in their\nbusinesses. &nbsp;For Juliet a member of Twezimbe\ngroup from the training she has learnt how to keep records and has been in position\nto teach others how to make peanut butter. \u201c<em>In a day 19,500\/= as profit.&nbsp; With an investment of 52,500\/= only,<\/em>\u201d <em>she\nsaid.<\/em> &nbsp;\u201c<em>On this World AIDS Day, we\nremember the loved ones that we have lost to HIV. I remember our chairman Esther\nPacoryema. &nbsp;For those that are still\nalive make something of your life and work hard always,\u201d she added. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stephen Lewis Foundation launched the Grandmothers project in response to the emerging crisis faced by African grandmothers as they struggled to raise millions of children orphaned by AIDS. &nbsp;In a bid to break the poverty circle among vulnerable groups served under Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative 60 grandmothers were mobilized to receive a12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachoutmbuya.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}