Achievement:

GAIYA’s feasibility study report determined that there an urgent need to recruit health professional volunteers, train and place them in these rural community health facilities where there was gross understaffing of personnel. GAIYA has carried out the following activities to date:

261 volunteers have been recruited in the programme and received a volunteers training courses trained
GAIYA developed a volunteer management systems manual which it shares with its partners
141 health professional volunteers are deployed and are working in 14 rural primary health centres
26 volunteers are working with ICT based organisations
GAIYAs woman volunteer takes the award of first African woman to climb a 200 metre tall Telecommunication mast to install telecommunication equipment
Volunteers have provided home based care to over 100 PLWHAs and their families
Volunteers have conducted public community HIV and AIDs talk and over 200 youths tested for HIV
GAIYA designed and developed Fantsuam Foundations HIV and AIDS work place policy. Fantsuam Foundation is the first organisation in Nigeria to implement a Policy on HIV and AIDS in the work place

If you like to join our network of partners and volunteers, you may wish to contact us at Fantsuam Foundation.