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Gender and Age:		Female, 28
Location:		Nyarugenge, Kigali
Country of Residence:		Rwanda
Nationalities:		Rwandan
Citizenships:		Rwanda
Languages:		English



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About Me

GASAMAGERA TUYISHIME Claire – Uyisenga N’Manzi
Email: Gasamagera.claire@gmail.com

Claire is 27, Christian and single. She was born with HIV and lives positively. She has been the head of her family of four since she was 17 and her parents died of AIDS. She earned her degree in Food Technology from the Kigali Institute of Science in 2007. Since 2003, she has been working as an anti-AIDS activist. She has been fighting for the rights of people living with HIV and in 2006 she initiated and founded a local non-governmental organization – Kigali Hope Association – which has expanded into Rwanda Young Positive as it groups together all Rwandan youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS regardless of their religion, ethnic group, or sexual orientation. She is the head of this local NGO driven by the motor "Towards an HIV free generation", She has been working as a community trainer on HIV and AIDS and Nutriion . She has been voulunteering from HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL working as mentor dilervering information on Reproductive Health and HIV and AIDS to children and adolescents with various disabilities. She has also initiated 3 cooperatives of youth living with HIV from rural area of RWANDA , she has been working as a mentor, entertainer of children and adolecents infected and affected by HIV and AIDS on the behalf of various NGOs ( Elizabeth Glazer Peadiatric AIDS Foundation, Partners in Health Rwanda, WE ACTX Rwanda,......) In additional to that, she likes diversity of culture, religion, and thoughts. She is a very flexible lady and likes to meet as many youth as possible with different backgrounds and share with them their experiences, their voices, in order to make the world a better place to live in.