Attending SCOPE Basic Business Skills course to help his my peers

Mrima Tsuma Mrima is a HIV-positive man  living in Chonyi Division, Kilifi District on the Coast of Kenya.  He is a fully trainied SCOPE HIV/AIDS peer educator. SCOPE’s Business Development Services team invited Mrima to a Basic Business Skills 3-day training course aimed at helping People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to generate income and thus live healthy and sustainable livilhoods.

The training was organised by SCOPE’s BDS programme in connection with the HIV Prevention Program and Food Distribution program. It targets HIV/AIDS groups and Peer Educators working with groups of PLWHA.  The Training was designed to help Peer Educators and Support Group representatives to pass on their learnings to their other members or peers.

Mrima is now teaching his members of his peer educator support group in Chonyi the lessons he’s learnt with the aim of starting an Income Generating Activity (IGA).

“It’s really going to help us look after ourselves and shows the community that being positive is not the end.”

Showing the community that being positive is “not the end” is a popular phrase of Mrima, and as a SCOPE Peer Educator, Mrima’s good work in his community is only just starting.