Five representatives from 5 different organizations working with young people and people living with HIV agreed to form a coalition in order to enhance their collaboration for a better improvement of lives of young people and people living with HIV in Rwanda.

Those five organizations are:

-          Rwanda Network of People Living with HIV (RRP+)

-          TRI-Rwanda

-          Dream Village (DV)

-          Together-As-One

-          Kigali Hope Organization (KHO)

It is in that regards that the Coalition Y+ Rwanda is organizing a meeting with the coalition member organizations with the aim to discuss different problems/challenges that currently affecting young people living with HIV and analyze what we can do together as in our daily activities and what we can advocate together for better improvement of lives of young people living with HIV in Rwanda.

A.      Objectives

The overarching objectives of the meeting are the following:

-          Participants will learn what are the different strategies by RBC for the support to the young people living with HIV

-          Identification of different organizations working with young people living with HIV in Rwanda

-          Identification of different opportunities that can be of a great benefit to the young people living with HIV in Rwanda

-          Identification of other opportunities with different organizations working for the improvement of lives of young people

B.      Expected results

-          Every participant to the meeting will understand what are the priorities by RBC in terms of interventions to young people living with HIV

-          Identified other key stakeholders working with young people living with HIV

-          Identified different opportunities that can be of great benefit for young people living with HIV

Identified possibilities of building strong linkages between different organizations working with young people living with HIV and possibilities of working/linking with other organizations with different areas of operations (Sexual and reproductive health, trainings on vocational and employment trainings - TVETs…)