To prevent further transmission of HIV in the global community.
B'Care Initiatives Description
B'Care has multiple and measurable objectives to reach the goal or mission possible.
B'Care has chosen different roles like the following...
Prevention activities: Prevention of further transmission of HIV/AIDS, as our 'mission' we have chosen a number of ways possible, to meet the interventions. Using different methodologies, at different social settings, to different people, at different stratas to curtail further HIV transmission, respectively.
B'Care Educational & Awareness Activities:
B'Care basically does awareness activities and the educational activity w.r.t. HIV/AIDS, this can be in the form of session or disseminating seminar or gathering or big event or program or parade etc.
Example: B'Care mega health camp, where 5000 people from Hyderabad rural district benefited.
B'Care state level parade Dec. 2004, mobilized all the state junior doctors 1000 in number approximately, to participate in the state parade that had impacted 20,000 people approx. at the city public places and the busy centers.
B'Care conducted the GYSD supported by St. Peters Charity gruoup, UK, at Nandanavanam, rural Hyderabad, RR Dist, with a population of 5000 Slum dwellers, "Slum talk Aids"
B'Care conducted "Mummy ...daddy… make my life free from HIV/AIDS" sponsored by Youth Service America, YSA. Totally, 3 schools joined together with a strength of 2000 and public of 3000 carried a good message for the child and the parent.
B'Care conducted World AIDS Day seminar cum cultural program at the Narayana Concept school with a strength of 1000 teen students.
B'Care conducts ad hock campaigns in the deep slums, counsels them at the B'Care Center.
B'Care Research Center:
B'Care did many community research activities, analysis of different communities, elucidation and extraction of different subjects among the communities that paves way to the pandemic HIV/AIDS. Behavioral studies of different communities, etc.
B'Care also submitted abstracts in the IAC, Barcelona, Bangkok, Toronto 2006, SAHARA (selected) and ICAAP Kobe (selected) etc.
B'Care supported "HIV sub-typing research" of National AIDS Research Institute, NARI Pune.
B'Care contributed to GYCA-OIYP Case study collection.
B'Care Fine Arts Initiative:
B'Care has chosen art as medium of expression for passing the message of HIV/AIDS.
Examples: B'Care participated in the International peace tiles project, where it did 2 workshops. One with NHP+ and another with Narayana School and HIV infected and affected kids.
B'Care was one of the grass roots NGO that got selected for the "Beautiful Struggle" 1000-word project. Recently, B'Care with Canadian delegates unveiled the Beautiful Struggle Mural at the Osmania Govt. General Hospitals, largest hospital of the state.
B'Care proposed to hold a painting exhibition in the ensuing "8Wonders of the world" event at Agra, 'Taj Mahal' B'Care also submitted proposals for the Mural as a pre conference event and body painting and a fun full, innovative, participatory, PLWHA involving 'global village' event at the IAC, Toronto 2006.
B'Care Pediatric Initiative:
B'Care is providing the basics needs for 4 HIV affected kids, 2 girls and 2 boys, who lost their father with the face of AIDS, the widow mother is hopeless and she work for B'Care adopting 'positive living'.
B'Care Cultural Initiative:
B'Care adopted cultural activities like performing arts or instrumental or skits or vocal to implement in the meetings / disseminating seminars that can tone the concept of "Positive Living" or address or fight or agitate on the general issues confronted by PLWHA. We use this as a weapon in the battle of HIV/AIDS.
Example: B'Care cultural performance in the IAC, Barcelona and selection in the ICAAP, Kobe.
Many local programs and meetings adopted the same policy, this gives a different impact on the public. These grabs attention retains audience and activate them in the meet to hear the message of AIDS. B'Care submitted in the Toronto 2006 cultural activity program, CAP.
Mock agitation for Truth in PEACE i.e., "Satyagraha" Mahatma is back to the world to fight AIDS, and to drag the attention of world leaders on MDG goals and UNGASS declaration of commitment.
IAC, Bangkok 2004
B'Care Small scale business Initiative (BSSBI):
In our community work, 80% of the total infected women we encounter young widows who are HIV+, an asset left by the husband died of AIDS. Their in-laws and own family members throw these women out of home. B'Care SSBI takes those women and directs them to SSBI like Tailoring and Candle making activities. These widows make some profit to the BSSB Initiative for the basic running and maintenance of the project. Hence such BSSB Initiative can support HIV+ widows and their kids or orphan kids, with a meager salary under employment basis. B'Care also empowers the same women to confront conflict in the gender equity.
We have started this initiative recently. This is in growth phase.
B'Care Youth force:
BYF is a positional group of the youth community.
iB'Care youth network, working for the all youth community for their betterlife in our state or locality. BYF follows with the guidelines of the Global Youth action Network and Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS.
B'Care Network of Positive People, BNP+:
A inhouse network that enables HIV victim to get together with common agenda of Positive Living. BNP+ gives free membership to all PLWHA. We have a database of all our BNP+ members in order to involve them in all the HIV/AIDS activities. BNP+ has a self-help group formation for women or widows, who run the project like Candle making or Tailoring projects. BNP+ members are guided to government hospitals, counseled at times and taken care or monitored under ARV medication, nutritional supplements.
All the above initiatives and efforts made a good impact addressing different issues of HIV/AIDS, the initiative propagated the interest to know and interest to pass the message of HIV/AIDS. This could bring down the stigma and discrimination, negligence and ignorance etc. Various educational activities helped the community to come forward for the STI check up, HIV testing, attend counseling, etc.
Overall, we do promote 80% prevention activities and 10% research and 10% care and support.
Community Empowerment:
Our Initiatives have varied impacts because we have targeted communities in different way or polymorphic intervention. We target the certain community in certain tailor made intervention that suits perfectly, the system. This attracts them to come and involve with B'Care response to HIV/AIDS. For example we did Slum Talk AIDS, at Nandanavanam, very big colony of slum dwellers, prostitutes, PLWHA, waste pickers, beggers, house maids etc. This community infact appreciate mass events, like Burrakathas (stories in songs), folk dance etc. The success of the event at Nandanavanam is the evidence that tailor made strategic planning brought the success to it. Hence, we make such different attempts to different places. This above activity is the example of marginal groups and is how they involved in the response to HIV/AIDS, equally. The attraction of the event pulls all the groups surrounding, peer to peer encouragement and peer call activates the marginal groups to equally involve by learning and dissemination of the messages addressed. Our deep involvement with such marginalized communities is also as significant as they do with us or reciprocate with us. Only then we could be successful in our mission.
The above different initiative empowers the communities and its marginalized groups to take action by learning their role in the society or their own community. They learn the issues that are conflict full and incompatible to them, they learn to confront those issues, counteract or antagonize them to have a better existence in the same community. For example gender inequity is a major concern in same area, Nandanavanam is a dream thought. We found male dominance, which is pretty common issue. This issue lead to great exploitation on women. Our community participation and peer education empowers them to lessen or reduce such incidences.
Greater involvement and empowerment of PLWHA (GIPA)
B'Care is totally dedicated to HIVers. This fundamental principle has an urge to involve PLWHA in all the activities, events, programs, projects etc. There is no single event of B'Care devoid of PLWHA.
Moreover, our BNP+ is pretty active registering as many PLWHA as possible. So during any projects or activities we invite them to take the lead roles coordinating the activities, organizing the event. This is a kind of encouragement that keeps them toned to the community HIV/AIDS prevention activity. BNP+ leaders are put in to mind in all our decisions. The BNP+ representatives have a high seat in all the activities, like any other dignitaries. In turn the BNP+ representatives believe in mobilizing the PLWHA. The BNP+ network is taught of the current issues that are globally happening. B'Care hones their skill to confront and fight for the justice. This is way the PLWHA are empowered under BNP+.
Sustainability and action at scale:
Yes, B'Care prevention activities demonstrate sustainability in many routes. For instance B'Care organized the mural project "beautiful struggle" an International project signifies one of the MDGs, HIV/AIDS, did a mural on the Osmania Govt. Hospital entrance, where daily thousands of people and PLWHA watch it and carry the message with them. This project as such is something perpetual. Similarly our International peace tiles project, address the issues of the HIV/AIDS, has sustainability because the Tiles are permanent at the place where pasted. Another example our Candle making and Tailoring project is a sustainable projects where we recycle the profits for support of HIV+ widows and infected and affected kids. The other activities that are pretty common, like awareness program can be reproduced as and when needed by repeating at the same or different places more innovatively and interestingly.
Gender Equality :
This issue is a very common and very aggressive in developing countries. B'Care believes in the equal treatment of both male and female members for any planning or implementation of the HIV/AIDS projects. Every gender has its own plus and minus points. However, there is a great imbalance in any social systems of India. The imbalance signifies the evil nature of men over the women. This makes B'Care to support more women side or widows living with HIV/AIDS.
Yes, B'Care initiatives helped in empowering to gender equity. BNP+ of B'Care has a greater contribution, our projects of Candle making and tailoring has major contribution too. Our visual voices depict the message of Gender equity and empowerment of widows living with HIV/AIDS in our International Peace tiles collages and paintings.
Innovation:
B'Care believes in innovative concepts. We were very successful in the past fancy dress activity at the IAC Bangkok. Mock agitation for Truth in PEACE i.e., "Satyagraha" Mahatma is back to the world to fight AIDS, and to drag the attention of world leaders on MDG goals and UNGASS declaration of commitment. We think different and we make difference in our strategies.
We are the few NGOs that has multiple strategies with multiple applications but the mission is ONE.
Partnership:
B'Care had partnership with Network of HIV Positive People, NHP+, Narayana Concept School, A.P. State Junior Doctors Association, APJUDA, Vailankanni Institutions, college of BEd. Disney Minne Grant. Youth Service of America, YSA, USA, St. Peters Charity group, UK, Osmania Medical Students Association and Development, OMSD, Hyderabad, UN-Habitat, ACTAlive, GYSD, GYCA AP State AIDS Control Society, HEROES, Bill and Melinda gates etc. are the past partners in our activities. We make strategic alliance with different partners because this helps us to share the resources in any projects and the coverage capacities of the event by the partners are increased.
11) In the above all events, except 2 activities, the other all programs are sponsored by the parents of the trustees. Mrs Kamala Kumari Makarla and Mrs Sumathi Naidu B.R.
B'Care is "Bill Clinton Center for AIDS Research & Education, totally different from "Bill Clinton Foundation" But "Bill Clinton" is the spirit and the driving force behind B'Care's existence.
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