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Associated Press - November 27, 2008
Emma Clippinger of Cambridge, Mass., and a Yale University colleague founded a nonprofit organization after realizing that many HIV victims were so malnourished that they could not absorb lifesaving antiretroviral drugs.
Gardens for Health International has helped more than 4,000 Rwandans get access to tools, seeds and organic manure to plant and harvest foods for themselves and families, donate to hospitals and sell at the market in the past two years.
The group is now working to raise about $60,000 in grants to add to the $130,000 they have already raised. The funds will be used to provide loans to the agriculture cooperatives because they have shown that they can make money.
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