• Benin
• Play to Learn, education through sport & play
• Burkina Faso
• Treating the noma disease
• Community strengthening to prevent child migration
• Refurbishment of a primary school in a village
• Cameroon
• Poultry breeding to enhance local development
• Egypt
• Programme for Burn Patients in Asyut
• Ethiopia
• Malaria prevention and treatment
• Prevention and treatment of podoconiosis
• Ghana
• Self-sufficiency of an orphanage
• Rainwater to battle water shortage
• Kenya
• An oasis for the slum children
• Madagascar
• Providing drinking water to villages
• Mali
• Installation of a health care centre in a village
• Solar energy for local development
• Morocco
• Improving education in rural areas
• Niger
• Preservation of the addax
• Nigeria
• Educational support for orphans and vulnerable children
• Sierra Leone
• Fighting maternal and infant mortality
• Construction of a village for victims of poliomyelitis
• Swaziland
• Provide access to the International Baccalaureate
• Syria
• Improvement of nurses’ skills and working conditions
• Togo
• Solar energy in a hospital
• Uganda
• Another "FXB Village"
• Apiculture for local development

Another "FXB Village"

The "FXB Village" is a sustainable community development programme which aims to lead 80 families (approx. 500 people) affected by poverty and AIDS towards durable economic and social autonomy within three years.

This model was created by the FXB Association whose mission is to fight poverty and AIDS and provide support to orphans and vulnerable children left in the wake of the pandemic.

It is a low-cost module programme that provides families with a basic package (health, nutrition, education, professional training, psychosocial support, etc.) and an Income-Generating Activity (IGA), which consists in identifying a professional project with the head of the family and developing it with the help of microcredit. By the end of the three-year programme, the objective is for 85% of the families to have achieved long-term sufficiency.

A typical "FXB Village" helps 80 destitute families affected by AIDS:

• on average, six members per family;
• most of the time, 2 parents died of AIDS;
• head of the family: grandparents, older siblings, uncle or aunt;
• taking in at least 1 AIDS orphan.

Common feature of the families: a desire to pull through.

Addax Petroleum Foundation’s support aims to extend the FXB Association’s impact in Uganda by supporting the creation of a new “FXB Village”. The three-year programme provides each family with the following support:

• medical care;
• nutritional support and access to drinking water;
• psychosocial counselling;
• educational support and professional training;
• development of income-generating activities (IGAs) and access to microcredit;
• HIV/AIDS prevention and education (promoting healthy lifestyles).

The objective is to minimise the stigmatisation of people affected by AIDS, reinforce prevention, and promote children’s rights and women’s autonomy, within the communities and in the long run.

In terms of infrastructure, and given the high poverty levels in Mirambi, the majority of families live in destitute conditions. The population largely engages in subsistence agriculture and lives a peasant livelihood. Many orphans are unable to access education. Healthcare is provided to families supported by the "FXB Village".