E3’s partnership:

• Provides HIV testing and counselling in the city and in the rural area so people can find out their status and receive the support they need, including support groups where people can learn how to live healthier lives and encourage each other.

• Helps reduce the spread of HIV through awareness meetings in local communities, training on healthy living for people infected by HIV and meetings to equip church leaders with knowledge about HIV and how they can help change behaviour.

• Facilitates economic empowerment and agricultural activities through 3 credit-savings groups, involving 105 people living with HIV. They access training and loans to set up small businesses to earn a sustainable income.

• Built a primary school in Mpingu in partnership with Raise the Roof Children’s Choir, which opened in September 2023. It means a shorter walk to school and a higher quality education so children can concentrate better, feel more hopeful and positive about school and attend more regularly. A shorter walk protects girls from the approaches of men, boosts their confidence and restores their hope.

• Helped to build a health clinic for under-fives so they no longer have to travel over 25km to the nearest specialist clinic. Over 2,300 children are treated for malnutrition, HIV, Malaria, TB and common tropical diseases each year.

• E3 grant: £8,000 plus an additional £2,000 in 2024 to help start the bursary fund for the primary school.