Expected Outcomes
1.) Build a sustainable community by providing support to the grandmothers caring for orphaned children.
2.) Develop a support network to assist the grannies in recognizing their strengths and in sharing different experiences with each other.
3.) Train grannies to be leaders in the community by mentoring other young grannies and mothers.
4.) Strengthen the entire community by recognizing grannies positive contribution to the community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Challenges
1.) Weakness and old age
2.) Lack of life skills
3.) Trauma, grief, and stress from the death of their children and fear of losing their grandchildren
4.) Hunger, poverty, health, inadequate shelter, transportation, and lack of access to other basic needs.

Program Goals for 2009-2010
1.) Continue mobilisation for new grannies and follow-up support for trained grannies through bi-weekly meetings (Reach 10,000 grannies in 2009-2010).
2.) Continue to develop model homes and families that influence positive behavioral and attitude changes in the community in order to foster developments.
3.) Continue to build kitchen gardens and pit latrines for vulnerable grannies (one time gift).
4.) Reduce vulnerability by improving the self-esteem of grannies and the children they support.
5.) Open up and enhance intergenerational dialogue between grannies and children in order to develop meaningful, fulfilling, and lasting relationships.
6.) Continue to develop income-generating projects and microenterprise programs for all grannies in Kanungu and Rukingiri Districts.
7.) Continue to support the Nyaka & Kutamba nurses in their visits to grannies' homes and through the teaching of hygiene and sanitation.
8.) Develop a program for giving out piglets, cows, and goats to grannies, who in turn give back one for another family (similar to Heifer's approach to poverty).
9.) Provide preventative measures to assist child-headed homes in the event of the death of a grandmother.

Support Groups
Emotionally vulnerable grandmothers are recruited by our trained grandmothers to join the support groups that run twice a month. In these groups, grandmothers meet others who have family members infected with HIV or who have died from AIDS. They also meet others who are struggling to raise orphaned grandchildren. The support group offers a place to share stories, gain advice, and speak openly about their difficulties.