To help support the government’s efforts, HDI brought together a small group of companies to determine how the private sector could potentially support the government’s efforts so that their efforts could be scaled up and sustained. At the beginning of our work with the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (GHARP), we engaged the US Ambassador at the time to help bring visibility to the project as well as local and international businesses involved in Guyana. In the years that followed, the group expanded and developed its own Advisory Board and grew into one of the most robust coalitions in the Pan Caribbean Region. In addition to adopting workplace programs and policies in cooperation with the ILO, members provided both financial and in-kind resources which helped support: orphans and vulnerable children; individuals infected or affected by HIV through micro-credit loans and job training and creation; media campaigns and national and community events; and transportation for physicians to reach patients in remote areas. As the Advisory Board grew, the organization officially registered itself as a civil society organization. In 2008, 43 local and international companies came together to serve as the Founding Members of the Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBCHA).