HDI

Home in the Bwiza Potter Village, supported by HDI

www.hdirwanda.org

Health Development Initiative’s Mission is to organize and promote community-based health care development in Rwanda. HDI works to build sustainable alliances between the community and professional health care providers, as well as to empower providers to better educate and serve their communities. One of the communities with which HDI works is the Potter community, and it is through a visit to HDI’s projects in 2009 Summer (see the program report) that GYC was first introduced to HDI’s team and operations. HDI was founded by GYC alumnus Dr. Aphrodise Kagaba. They have also been doing theatre projects for sexual and reproductive health rights sensitization in communities, working with youth theatre groups. Their work is similar to that of RAPP’s in this respect, but it is also somewhat different in that HDI is more of medical program, run by doctors with many licensed doctors coming to volunteer in Rwanda to work with them, like Dr. Carl, who was pictured in the 2009 Program Report. It is possible that there could be overlap between the work with COPORWA and that of HDI, or AJPRODHO and HDI. Together AJPRODHO and HDI will be trying to engage about LGBT rights.