Hope For All

Hope For All (HFA), a non-governmental organization (NGO), was established in 2001 on the Essequibo Coast in region 2 as a response to the HIV epidemic. Today, fifteen (15) years later, we still assist individuals and families struggling with this illness, and have built on this foundation to provide a range of information.

Purpose
To provide quality health care aimed at improving the health of all individuals through advocacy, education, information, counselling and empowerment.

Core Focus
Counseling and testing , youth empowerment, gender based violence, suicide prevention and life skills education.


Aspirations for the Future

Skills & Strengths
Training, counselling, facilitation, hydroponics, life skills (garment construction, sewing, tie-dyeing, fabric design, knitting, cake decoration), mentorship and leadership skills, among others.

Speciality of Activities
Our special activities include counselling and testing, peer education training, home-based care training, awareness training for HIV in communities and work place, mental health and suicide counselling, drug abuse awareness sessions, health and family life education (HFLE) counselling, life skills.

Since 2011, HFA has quadrupled in size and now contains four (4) departments, each designed to serve a different programme. As HFA has grown in effectiveness, we seek to develop new programmes and services to help young people and adults lead successful lives in region 2.

Beneficiaries of Services
One thousand and fifty (1050) clients were educated about prevention messages of which one hundred and fifteen (115) were female sex workers (FSWs). Thirty one (31) loggers, one hundred and seventy-eight (178) miners, three hundred and thirty eight (338) members of adjacent population, seventy nine (79) clients of FSWs, and three hundred and nine (309) members of the general population received gender-based violence (GBV) counselling.

HFA distributed seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight (17858) condoms, two thousand six hundred and sixty-one (2661) information, education, and communication (IEC) materials, five thousand two hundred seventy nine (5279) lubricants. There were also three hundred and eighty-eight (388) HIV testing and counselling referrals while forty seven (47) person accessed other health services such as VIA.

Ninety-four (94) persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV) received home-based care while sixty-eight (68) orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) benefitted from care and support. Sixty (68) clients attended parenting education sessions, thirty-five (35) after school education literacy, numeracy and adolescent support programmes, sixty (60) child friendly space sessions, and forty-one (41) summer programmes.


Locations or Reach
Regions 1 and 2 inclusive of the coast, lakes and river

Hope for All has moved from a voluntary only organization to one with structures and different technical areas of work. This means that we provide a wide range of services that can reach the needs of our target audience. This organization, now registered under the Friendly Societies Act, Cap 36:04, is governed by a board of directors and has implemented policies that clearly outline its scope of operations.