By Nombuso Zikalala | Health Officer
The children's book My Living Positively Handbook is a book for young children who are HIV positive. It was made by children, families, doctors, nurses and teachers. Pictures, activities and simple information help the child to find out many ways to live positively.
There will never be enough words to show our admiration and gratitude to the young people and their families who opened their lives, their homes, and their stories to us. We are also grateful for the contribution of technical support and substantive information from partner organisations, individuals and families. We would also like to thank all our funders including Global Giving Foundation (especially the individual donors whom we cannot mention all by name). You have all helped to make this book for children a reality, through your logistical, administrative and financial support.
Ever since Children's Rights Centre started distributing this handbook in April 2009, we have received nothing but only positive feedback from Child Health Care Workers and other organisations doing trainings using the book. We have received a number of requests from other partner organisations such as NACOSA (Networking AIDS Community of South Africa) and MATCH (Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health) to mention a few asking for more copies as they find this handbook very helpful, simple and easy for children to work with and also understand their HIV status. We have therefore managed to distribute more than 8000 handbooks with adult guides namely "Helping Children living with HIV." These were also translated into 2 indigenous languages IsiZulu and Xhosa.
It is so unfortunate that we have again run out of stock and currently do not have enough funding to print out more copies for distribution to all other organisations in need of this very useful handbook. Children's Rights Centre have tried other means of fundraising but was not enough to cover the costs. We would therefore like to ask all our funders to please continue donating as we would like to get this book re-printed and continue helping our children deal with their HIV status and also educate others.
Thanking you all in advance for your commitment and cooperation in helping children living with HIV.
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