Build a Home for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Summary

This project will provide a home with a caring, self-sustaining environment within a family structure for 100 children and adults infected and affected by HIV-AIDS in rural South Africa

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

The stigma and the devastating socio-economic consequences of HIV-AIDS are leaving more and more children and adults homeless in South Africa. It is not uncommon for people to have to endure hunger, abandonment, beatings, rape, and murder attempts in addition to the symptoms of the disease. We are building a home for 50 children and adults near the village of Coffee Bay, Transkei, one of the poorest areas of the country that has been most hardly stricken by the pandemic .

How will this project solve this problem?

The home will provide food, shelter, and a caring environment within a family structure. It will also function as a community center offering free meals, preschooling, counseling, advocacy, employment, and transportation to hospitals.

Potential Long Term Impact

Our Place is fighting the dehumanizing effects of HIV-AIDS by improving the quality of life of at least 50 people who who cannot rely on their biological families or public assistance for the fulfillment of their basic human needs.

Project Message

Our Place is a very nice place where people get warm and comfortable. Everybody gets loving and more care, and we can feel better.
- Katrine, Benficiary and care giver

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).