Keep a Child Alive

In partnership with We-Actx (Women’s Equity in Access to Care and Treatment), Keep a Child Alive funded the scale-up of the Icyuzuzo Clinic, fulfilling the dreams of women and children in need of medical care, most of whom are genocide survivors. In 2009, the HIV/AIDS services we made possible at Icyuzuzo found a new home at the Centreville Clinic in Kigali. Located at the center of Kigali, this clinic provides high quality HIV/AIDS clinical services to all our patients from Icyuzuzo, while opening up opportunity to other important services in the city center. As a nation that continues to advance on all levels, the scars of the genocide are still present in Rwanda, including the legacy of widespread HIV/AIDS. Sexual violence constituted a large part of the genocidal strategy, leading to large numbers of AIDS orphans and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

As Rwanda continues to re-build after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan people are working hard to become self-sustaining. The Centreville Clinic is committed to bringing its patients to health and to the next level of success in their ability to provide for themselves with small funds to begin their own enterprises, be it goat farming or textiles. Renewed with good health, the patients at Centreville are empowered to begin taking care of themselves and their families again, and the clinic is fostering their ability to do so.

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