By Josephine Maseruka
MAMA’S Club, a Ugandan community-based organisation helping people living with HIV/AIDS, has emerged one of the best 25 groups of the Red Ribbon for 2008.
The Red Ribbon is a symbol of readiness to fight the pandemic. As a result, Dr. Lydia Mungherera, an activist who founded Mama’s Club in 2003, will be one of the civil society speakers during a special session of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS in New York.
“It is a great honour for us to be one of the winners of this award,” she said.” Mama’s Club and each of the 25 other winners were given $5,000 (about sh8.3m). The award will be officially announced at the general assembly on June 11.
Two representatives from the club, a male and female, have also been invited to the International AIDS Conference in Mexico to run from August 1 to 9. They will present the grassroots nature of the club’s work.
The club, basesd at The Aids Support Organisation in Mulago, Kampala was launched on March 8, 2004. It aims at providing healthcare for HIV/AIDS- positive mothers and their children.
This article was published in The New Vision, Uganda on Thursday 29th May 2008
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