Since we started the Stephen Lewis Foundation six years ago, we've based our funding model on a simple, yet powerful idea: that when you put money directly into the hands of communities, great things happen.
We've worked to create a new way of funding that is sensitive, responsive and flexible - one that avoids bureaucratic red-tape and ensures that the money goes where it's most needed.
The grassroots organizations we work with are pioneering effective and sophisticated responses to HIV and AIDS in their communities. Since 2003, we've funded more than 300 grassroots projects in 15 countries to support the ordinary people - grandmothers, women and children - who have been affected by the AIDS pandemic. In country after country, we have seen lives and hope restored.
We see a potential for major change around the pandemic. Our challenge is clear: we must help effective projects to scale up, fund more innovative initiatives, and support the tremendous people who are working determinedly to turn the tide of AIDS right across the continent.
African communities know what needs to be done. What they need are the resources to make it possible.
Your support would mean communities transformed. Together, we can help turn the tide of AIDS in Africa.
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The Stephen Lewis Foundation supports community-based organizations working to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since 2003, we have funded more than 300 projects in 15 countries.