The Bible Society of Malawi HIV-AIDS Resource Mobilization Journey

HIV Joint Evaluation Workshop LIMBE, CAMEROON 15th -19th March 2010

Living in hope Chichewa Braille

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Original Living in Hope Booklet

Front cover Back cover

Living in Hope Translated into 4 vernacular languages

Cover picture adapted to suite the local needs

CHICHEWATUMBUKAYAOSENA

communicating in the heart

language of the target group is most effective

Living in Hope into Formats for specific audiences

Living in hopeChichewa Braille

To cater forThe VIPs

Living in Hope Vernacular Audio

To caterFor non-readers

The Local ordinary people received a truly Bible based Information Education and Communication

booklet for the first time

Institutions with HIV-AIDS Programmes benefited and

equipped their resource centers

An HIV-AIDS Network Discussing use of Living in Hope materials in

their Programme

Group of business women listening and discussing Living in Hope

audio

VIP pupils and their teacher receiving Braille living in hope into

the schools resource centre

A VIP girl reading HIV-AIDS message in Braille for the first time

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Origins of Living in Hope Project

In the year 2002 using funds raised In the year 2002 using funds raised locally the BSM produced 50,000 locally the BSM produced 50,000 copies of Living in Hope booklets.copies of Living in Hope booklets.

The booklets were translated into four The booklets were translated into four languages: Chichewa, Tumbuka, Yao languages: Chichewa, Tumbuka, Yao and Sena.and Sena.

The booklets were not enough to cover The booklets were not enough to cover the whole country.the whole country.

Sourcing Local Funds

Due to the huge demand for the Living in Hope booklet the BSM decided to look for funding that could assist it to produce more booklets.

In 2005 the BSM submitted a proposal to the National AIDS Commission for funding of the production and distribution of the Living in hope booklets.

It was until 2007 that the National AIDS Commission funded BSM Living in Hope project with the sum of U$100,000

Production and Distribution

The funds were used to produce and distribute:

365,000 vernacular booklets,

500 Braille

2,500 audio tapes

Challenges Faced

The booklets were not enough to satisfy demand on the ground

Though the demand for the material was increasing the material lacked an interactive aspect

We thought of the Good Samaritan Project but we did not have the funds

Malawi NAC were running short of funds and could not continue funding BSM Project

Migration to GSP Relationship with FiBS

In 2008 during the JEW in Lome, Togo, we met Matleena Jarvio of the Bible Society of Finland and discussed the possibility of funding our Good Samaritan Project by the Finnish government

She promised to try her best so that we might be funded

In February 2009, we met again in Nairobi at another JEW and she assured us that something is being done

In April 2009, Matleena broke the good news of a possible funding from the Finnish government and sent us a proposal guideline and we wrote the proposal with assistance from UBS HIV & AIDS DESK in Nairobi

Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Approves Malawi GPS

The proposal of €432,550.00 was approved by the Finnish government towards the end of 2009

A review meeting with Markku and Matleena from the Finnish Bible Society and Kofi Agamah from UBS HIV Area Office was held last February in Blantyre, Malawi.

This coming April, we will be launching the Good Samaritan Project and we have already conducted sensitization meetings with churches, government officials from different departments and NGOs that are involved in HIV work in the targeted areas of Phalombe, Neno/Mwanza, Thyolo Districts in the Southern region of Malawi

We are using the expertise of our existing BibleTranslation Projects and Translation Consultant toTranslate all GPS Materials into:

Chichewa LanguageTumbuka Language

communicating in the heart language of the target group is most effective

GSP Package into vernaculars

The Bible Society of MalawiMaking God’s Word available and affordable

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