Current projects

Ethiopian national Protestant AIDS Curriculum Project

Hope In View was instrumental in persuading Ethiopia's Protestant denominations to work together on an AIDS curriculum for pastors throughout the country. The writing team, which it helped to assemble, comprises 19 people diverse in roles, experiences and denominational affiliations. Hope In View personnel facilitated their working together for an intense week January 8-12, 2007 and is coordinating subsequent editing and field-testing.

Rift Valley Vision Project

Hope In View is facilitating the HIV/AIDS training of all 230 church workers of this indigenous Ethiopian organization. During the first year of the project (2007-2008) local volunteers are mobilizing two rural Muslim villages, neither of which has had any previous AIDS education, to prevent HIV, reduce stigma, and get tested.  Lifewind International is providing assistance with training and on-site supervision. Study results will inform scale-up of the project to reach all of the remote areas into which Rift Valley workers go.

"Engaging AIDS" Summer Mission Trip

Hope In View took 8 American young people to Ethiopia June 18-July 5, 2007. They visited 91 children affected by AIDS in their homes, documented their stories, and returned to the United States to recruit permanent sponsors for these children through Heart for Ethiopia. For information on how to sponsor a child, click here. For information on next year's trip, click here, or contact the trip's coordinators, Don and Taceile Rumfelt at summermissiontrip@hopeinview.org.

Orphan Care Project

Hope In View is collaborating with LifeRise AIDS Resources in its efforts to make grants available for 9 different orphan projects in Ethiopia and other African countries.