Ruili Women and Children Development Center, Ruili, China
From the Global Women's Network
| Ruili Women and Children Development Center, Ruili, China | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 2nd Floor of Ruilijiang Hotel, Biancheng Street |
| City: | Ruili |
| State or Province: | Yunnan |
| Country: | China |
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| Location coordinates: | 24° 0' 35" N, 97° 51' 19" ELatitude: 24.0097236 Longitude: 97.855385 |
| Contact number: | Tel: 0692£4126075 |
| Contact email: | dwcdc2000@yahoo.com.cn |
| Website: | http://www.rwcdc.org/index.asp |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | Local NGO (operating at the community level) |
| Sectors: | Health, HIV/AIDS |
| Year founded/registered: | 2004 |
Summary
Ruili Women and Children Developing Center was established in year 2000 as the implementing organization for project cooperated by Save the Children UK and Ruili Municipal Government.
About
In July 2001, Save the Children UK and Ruili Municipal Government signed a Memorandum for Compulsory Project for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care, which kept the Center as the main implementer.
During the process of the project, Save the Children UK gave the Center much support on fund, staff capacity building and organization management.
In April 2004, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center registered as a local none-governmental organization, which made a good base and made it possible for more opportunities for the Center to partner with more international organizations. With years of cooperating with international organizations, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center has learned a lot on organization management and new concepts for internal management as well as the project implementing capacity.
Activities
VISION: To encourage the marginalized people to actively participate into the work of creating a society that people have healthy life style and sharing equal rights on development.
MISSION: As an independent none-profit, none-political and religious and none-governmental organization, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center works in Yunnan Province in China for creating a better and healthier life for women and children through cooperating with local government, communities and other organizations on services of health related education, promotion and medical services and in the process of this to change life and behavior model of women and children and people related to them.
GOAL: To reduce health, economical and social problems¡¯ negative influence on women and children, including HIV/AIDS¡¯s influence on marginalized and vulnerable groups among women and children.
TARGET GROUP: Vulnerable groups for HIV/AIDS, like children, commercial sex workers, drug addicted people, women in rural areas, migrants and HIV infected people and their families.
WHAT WE ARE DOING:
1. Intervention on Out-of-school Youth through trainings on adolescence sexual health knowledge, peer education, youth performance and village youth center establishment and other activities. The project aims at building up young peoples capacity in handling their problems and reduce the influence from STD/HIV/AIDS and drugs on them.
2. Intervention with Commercial Sex Workers. Knowledge training for Chinese and Myanmar commercial workers, diagnosing and treatment for genital infection diseases, condom promotion and referring services and other activities for reducing their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
3. Supporting for Establishing ARV mutual help group in mutual help group, the people who have very effective anti virus treatment can give a serious support to other people so that they can be more cooperative for the treatment.
4. Establish HIV Infected People Mutual Help Network through peer education, the project would persuade HIV infected people to have regular health examination to increase their ability to keep healthy, reduce pressure, to extend the disease latent period and help the infected people to better prepare for taking medicine and anti-virus treatment.
5. Intervention on Construction Workers to raise construction workers knowledge on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and peoples awareness on self-protection so that the influence of HIV/AIDS can be reduced among this group of people.
