Thu 2nd December 2010

WORLD AIDS DAY & EMBO

With World Aids Day on December 1, MAI salutes our Project Partners in Embo, KwaZulu Natal.  The Caregivers that we fund are doing outstanding work in their community.

Approaching 1800 home visits are being made each month and although deaths occur among their clients, they continue to love and serve around 300 clients.

New clients are being added like a single lady, Nomthandazo, who recently was visited because she was so ill.  Aids was diagnosed and she was taken by the team to the nearby hospice.  Within three weeks, she was back home where she lives with her mother and 4 siblings, 2 of whom are at school.  She and the other sibling do not work and the family survives on less than £50 a month!

Thanks to the Caregivers swift action, she is now on antiretroviral drugs with no apparent side effects and doing well.

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