World Vision has finished training 30 health community mobilisers to promote the HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Rwanda on Tuesday as Rick Warren was praising the country's Vision 2020 plan.
The president and one of the mobiliser, who was trained by World Vision over four-days, told New Times that the training enabled them to fight the stigma and discrimination face by the AIDS sufferers which prevented them from getting help.
"We shall use the knowledge to fight stigma and discrimination among the most vulnerable people living with the virus because stigma leads to depression and hinders people from seeking care and treatment," said Fred Mulindahasi Rafiki, the president and a mobiliser.
As World Vision was conducting the training program, Rick Warren, the popular U.S. preacher and social advocate visited Rwanda over the weekend to check up on the progress of his PEACE initiative-funded project in the country.
The PEACE Plan seeks to mobilize the 1 billion Christians around the world in an outreach to combat the five problems by Planting churches, Equiping servant leaders; Assisting the poor, Caring for the sick, and Educating the next generation.
He also praised Rwanda's Vision 2020 plan, which seeks to develop the country into a middle-income economy by the year 2020. He said that the Bible taught us that without a vision people perish, reported New Times.
Jennifer Riley, a Christian Post correspondent contributed to the article.