Vision & Mission
Vision
Every youth with HIV will actively participate in the fellowship, learn to lead a holistic and productive adult life, and support others to do the same.
Mission
Transform orphaned youth living with HIV into strong, self-reliant, productive adult advocates for positive social change, by comprehensively addressing their needs for education, health, psychosocial support, vocational training and life-skill education.
Goals
1) Develop a sustainable livelihood program with access to health care, vocational training and social support for orphaned youth living with HIV, using a Peer-Leader approach.
2) Prepare adolescents and youth living with HIV to join mainstream society as resilient, responsible, self-reliant adults
3) Enable youth living with HIV to be gainfully employed in a professional career or business.
Our Team
Supervised by SCT and TFI, 4 recent graduates of Snehagram will serve as mentors to a cohort of student-fellows across 12 partnering programs and in the community.
Each student-fellow will supervise and provide guidance to other youths living with HIV.
Our Activities
1) Peer-led outreach to connect with critical services related to health, education and coping.
2) Small group learning and feedback activities
3) Life-skill training
Our Projected Outcomes in the First Year
- Engage with 500 youth every month, mentoring their education, health and social integration
- Train 300 youth in life-skills
- Involve 125 youth in the Learning Exchange Platform
- Perform 50 case studies, documented to showcase the interventions
- Identify and train 50 new youth leaders
- Link 100 youth to a livelihood based training program