Ruili Women and Children Developing Center was established in year 2000 as the implementing organization for project cooperated by Save the Children UK and Ruili Municipal Government. In July 2001, Save the Children UK and Ruili Municipal Government signed a Memorandum for Compulsory Project for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care, which kept the Center as the main implementer.

During the process of the project, Save the Children UK gave the Center much support on fund, staff capacity building and organization management.

In April 2004, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center registered as a local none-governmental organization, which made a good base and made it possible for more opportunities for the Center to partner with more international organizations. With years of cooperating with international organizations, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center has learned a lot on organization management and new concepts for internal management as well as the project implementing capacity.

When doing the project, the Center has always been trying to combine the international advanced concepts with the local concrete situation and keep the utmost of interest of the target groups as the most important goal. With years of work, the Center has established a very good image in communities and among target groups, which makes it a bridge for communication and cooperation of local communities and international organizations. The work of the Center now has become a very important supplementary for local government’s work.

In year 2005, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center was selected as “the Model Accountable None-profit Organization” by Yunnan Bureau of Civil Affairs and the State Ministry of Civil Affairs.?

Vision
To encourage the marginalized people to actively participate into the work of creating a society that people have healthy life style and sharing equal rights on development.

Mission
As an independent none-profit, none-political and religious and none-governmental organization, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center works in Yunnan Province in China for creating a better and healthier life for women and children through cooperating with local government, communities and other organizations on services of health related education, promotion and medical services and in the process of this to change life and behavior model of women and children and people related to them.

Goal:
To reduce health, economical and social problems’ negative influence on women and children, including HIV/AIDS’s influence on marginalized and vulnerable groups among women and children.

Target group:
Vulnerable groups for HIV/AIDS, like children, commercial sex workers, drug addicted people, women in rural areas, migrants and HIV infected people and their families.

What we are doing:

1 Intervention on Out-of-school Youth
Through trainings on adolescence sexual health knowledge, peer education, youth performance and village youth center establishment and other activities, the project aims at building up young people’s capacity in handling their problems and reduce the influence from STD/HIV/AIDS and drugs on them.

2 Intervention on Commercial Sex Workers
Knowledge training for Chinese and Myanmar commercial workers, diagnosing and treatment for genital infection diseases, condom promotion and referring services and other activities for reducing their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

3 Supporting for Establishing ARV mutual help group
In mutual help group, the people who have very effective anti virus treatment can give a serious support to other people so that they can be more cooperative for the treatment.

4 Establish HIV Infected People Mutual Help Network
Through peer education, the project would persuade HIV infected people to have regular health examination to increase their ability to keep healthy, reduce pressure, to extend the disease latent period and help the infected people to better prepare for taking medicine and anti-virus treatment.

5 Intervention on Construction Workers
To raise construction workers’ and knowledge on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and people’s awareness on self-protection so that the influence of HIV/AIDS can be reduced among this group of people.

Till 2007, Ruili Women and Children Developing Center has cooperated with:

Save the Children UK
People Services International
The American Chamber of Commerce People’s Republic of China
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Tide Foundation
Global Fund for Children
Ziteng Hong Kong
Oxfam Hong Kong
Geneva Global
Global Fund
Commission on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific

We are looking forward to cooperating with you!

Contact:
Tel (Fax):0692－4126075 0692－4126076

E-mail：dwcdc2000@yahoo.com.cn
http://www.rwcdc.org/index.asp

Working hours：
Monday to Friday 8:00-11:00 a.m
14:30-18:00 p.m


Address: 2nd Floor of Ruilijiang Hotel,
Biancheng Street, Ruili
Yunnan Province
P.R.China