- Mother and Baby Support Group Highlights
- Micro Businesses Bring Economic Empowerment We received sponsorship to initiate micro businesses for the members of our Mother’s Club for HIV positive women and their babies. We supplied the women with products of their choice to the value of R1,000 each.
- Mother and Baby Support Group
- Through this project we support a total of 19 HIV-positive mothers and their babies.
- Project Hope
- Project Hope currently administers the following programmes: HIV/AIDS counseling Bible-based education that promotes lifestyle changes that help in HIV/AIDS infection prevention HIV/AIDS awareness seminars Counseling Conflict resolution Collecting and distributing nutritional
- More on Steps to Education
- Our Steps to Education project started in 2006. Steps to Education addresses the urgent need in our modern society to reinforce positive values in children, helping educators and parents to take education beyond just academics, providing moral and character-building material for their training.
- Help for the refugees of xenophobia – June 2008
- During the recent xenophobic attacks, our Sunday Club grew as children joined us from the refugee tents, which were not far from our site.
- Ray of Hope
- There is so much pain and confusion right now in the townships, but we wanted to share a ray of hope which we experienced this month. Our full-time counselor and peer educator, Barbara, had phoned and told us to expect a surprise this Wednesday morning.
- Love in Action versus Xenophobia – No competition!
- Instant Playground and Fun Day at the Refugee Camp A refugee camp was set up in our area to house the victims of the xenophobia attacks that were happening here, and we were first on the scene to help. Surrounded by thick and high barbed wire, the camp is somewhat depressing.
- Thousands of Easter Chicks, Johannesburg
- Easter was suddenly upon us. We had no chocolate eggs to give out, as we usually do, to the children of the township where we work. We have used the eggs to illustrate and help the children to understand and celebrate Easter.
- HIV/AIDS Education
- Our school programme for HIV/AIDS education is a big hit with the children. We mix information with drama and music in a dynamic, fast-moving programme, which involves a lot of interaction with the students.
- Homes for Unwed Mothers and Abused Women and Children
- Since the beginning of 2004 volunteers from Project Helping Hand have been visiting homes for unwed mothers and abused women and children. It began with supplying baby needs (cots, strollers, clothes, etc.
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