Friends of Project Tariro is a non-profit organization incorporated in Tennessee for the purpose of raising funds to support Project Tariro.  Rev., Dr. Paul Van Buren currently chairs their board of directors.

Project Tariro (Hope) is located in Zimbabwe adjacent to Africa University and the Old Mutare Mission Hospital.  It will be operational in 2009 and  intends to:

• Support and care for persons living with HIV/AIDS and their care-givers in a holistic rehabilitation program with practical education experience

• Help persons  with HIV to live positively by providing antiretroviral medications (ARVs), hope and support and resources to confront death.

• Help families and communities to accept persons living with HIV.

Who provides the services?
Project Tariro is administered by a Board of Directors that represent a three-way partnership among The Faculty of Health Sciences of Africa University, The Zimbabwe United Methodist Church, and the Friends of Project Tariro in US.  Dr. Peter Fasan is the Program Director.  

How it works
Project Tariro gathers HIV positive persons throughout Manicaland identified by staff of the Old Mutare Mission Hospital for intensive rehabilitation and training. As each group rotates through the program, volunteers will be trained to follow up through a home-based care program. Students from Africa University in agriculture, theology and health sciences will be involved in education and support programs. A faculty member of AU Faculty of Health Sciences will oversee the program.

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