Bujumbura, Burundi — For women living with HIV, economic vulnerability can often compound the challenges they already face. Through skills development, collective enterprise and mutual support, Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM), a socio-medical organisation working to combat HIV and AIDS in the Jesuit Rwanda-Burundi Province operating under the civil responsibility of
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ALL ABOUT AJAN AHAPPY GENERATION
AJAN isn’t just any other program, How good it feels to interact with them. Allow me to give you an over view- Probably to open your eyes to something new, Perfect program planned for youths- You just can’t afford to miss their training. Past few years, talking about HIV/AIDS
JUC Empowers Young Entrepreneurs to Build Resilient Businesses
Skills can be more than a pathway to employment. They can be sparks that help people see new possibilities in the work they are already doing–and unlock opportunities they may not have imagined. This year’s World Youth Skills Day theme, “Skills for a Shared Future,” underscored the transformative power of practical skills,
Fr. Ismael Matambura Visits Centre Saint Ignace in Kingabwa to Encourage Women’s Resilience Project Beneficiaries
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo – August 12, 2026 During his visit to Kinshasa, Fr. Ismael Matambura SJ, Director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), visited Centre Saint Ignace in Kingabwa on Wednesday, August 12, to assess the progress of the 2026 Women’s Resilience Project and meet its beneficiaries.
Small Businesses, Big Dreams: Women and Girls in Lomé Build Their Way Towards a Better Future
Centre Espérance Loyola (CEL)–Lomé, Togo | BRWGA 2026 What happens when a woman who has struggled for years with financial insecurity is given not only a small amount of capital, but also the knowledge, confidence and support to use it? For 30 vulnerable women and young girls living in the
AJAN Joins the World in Marking International Youth Day 2026: Different contexts, One generation, A shared future.
Nairobi, Kenya | 12 August 2026 International Youth Day, observed annually on 12 August, provides an opportunity to recognize the contributions of young people while drawing attention to the opportunities and challenges shaping their lives. It is the day the world celebrates more than 1.2 billion young people, not as
World AIDS Day 2024: Message from the AJAN Acting Director
Dear Colleagues, Collaborators, Partners and Friends, This year, 2024 we mark the World AIDS Day (WAD) with the theme, ‘Take the Rights Path’. The theme follows last year’s message which invited us to give the community agency, as protagonist of the fight against the pandemic that the world has struggled
AHAPPY TRAINING OF TRAINERS FOR INTEGRAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (IYD) IN ZIMBABWE – PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
“After you have been empowered, go out there and become deacons, those sent to serve.” These were the closing remarks of Rev. Ashton Mughozi SJ, the youth delegate of the Southern Africa Province in Zimbabwe, during the commissioning mass for 30 young people after undergoing 5 day’s training for AHAPPY
AHAPPY training of Learners at Ruiru staff prisons College Nairobi
by Sergon Pascalia Capacity Building, AJAN AHAPPY training of learners (ToL) unlike training of trainers, are sessions involving young people between 10 years-24 years on AJAN HIV and AIDS Prevention Program for the Youht (AHAPPY program). It involves having one to one discussion with the youth on specific subjects that
THEOLOGY STUDENTS OF SAINT PATRICK’S MISSIONNARY SOCIETY IN NAIROBI ARE TRAINED ON AHAPPY PROGRAMM
The workshop began on the 25th of March and ended on the 27th at Kiltegan Theologate house, Langata, given by Fr. Ismael Matambura (Director of AJAN) and Pascalia Sergon (AJAN Programs and Capacity building Officer). The 38 participants comprised theology students and their formators. This religious group came to now
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