Current Activities   1.  Home Based Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA’s)     RUCEBO supports PLWHA’s by visiting homes to help with daily responsibilities like caring for children of PLWHA’s, cleaning, cooking, and providing education on how to improve nutrition by introducing more nutritious crops into their gardens.    RUCEBO also facilitates the preparation of Memory Books and Wills for the families of the PLWHA’s.  The information in the Membory Books includes family history, important and other treasured memories to the family, and other significant information helpful to the children.    Group meetings are held to unite PLWHA’s to share knowledge and experiences to discourage stigmatism and spread awareness of how the virus is spread and how to improve quality of life while living with HIV/AIDS.

2.  Orphan Support

Orphans and Vulnerable children are supported by donations by the community to pay for uniforms for school, assist caregivers of OVC’s, and social events to provide moral and emotional support. 

RUCEBO acts as a security net for the youth of Kabuchai who need direction, financial support, and loving homes to become contributing citizens to the community. 

3.  Kitchen Gardens

Kitchen Gardens are plots of land where nutritious greens are produced in an effort to improve food security and nutrition in the community. 

Objectives:

1.  Increase food security

2.  Improve nutritional status

3.  Increase economic opportunities through intensified product output and marketing strategies and improved agricultural skills. 

List of Crops: sunhemp, carrots, spinach, pumpkins, cassava, amaranthus, sweet potato, fingermillet, sorgum, spider plant, variety of bananas trees, soy beans, maize, chilis, watermelons, yams, cow peas and many more.

4.  Table Banking

Members collect money to use for loans to buy fertilizer, build storages, rent land, etc.  The interest is 10% of the loan and the member must repay the money contributed by the other members.  Table Banking  circulates funds to each member in order to achieve system sustainibility by bringing resources together. 

5.  Environmental Conservation

RUCEBO works to conserve the land and its resources by preventing soil erosion through digging trenches and planting trees along the river to maintain the fertile top soil.  They practice energy conservation by cooking with more efficient stoves that hold the heat longer thus using less firewood.  They also encourage people to plant more trees and adopt the new more efficient stoves to reduce tree cutting. 

6.  Primary Health Care Education

Members make home visits to educate the villagers about how diseases are spread and can be prevented.  They encourage activities to improve hygiene like building latrines and dish drying racks.  They also advocate planting more nutritious crops, for example sweet potatoes that are rich in Vitamin A.  Herbal remedies are also being encouraged, especially for PLWHA’s. 

7.  Advocating Children’s Rights

Children’s rights include the right to education, protection and provision of basic needs.  The members encourage parents to honor their children’s basic rights along with teaching the children to demand  needs like shelter, education, food, and health to be met.