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 progress report read updates from the field

Received £12,560 from 153 donations from people around the world like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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 .

Activities

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.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

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

Why this Project is Important

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andrea Parmegiani,
Public relations coordinator
75 Central Park West 11A
New York, NY 10023
United States
(212) 7875477
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

Our place
9 DS Kok Street Ferreira
Bloemfontein, Free State 9300
South Africa
001-27-51-4438014

Learn more about Our place and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Health.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 08, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Good News from the Field

By Andrea Parmegiani - Public Relations Coordinator, April 21, 2011 10:40 AM

The children in front of the kindergarten

Dear Global Givers,

I have a very good news to share with you. Our main center in Coffee Bay, which we opened with the help of Global Giving, is now able to stand on its own feet. This means that from now on, we will be able to channel all of your donations to the satellite center of Mahosheni.

As you might remember, Mahosheni is located about 10 km from the Coffee Bay center, which is a huge distance to travel on foot, especially for the people that need our care (young children, elderly, people living with HIV-AIDS). We opened a kindergarten and a grocery store a few months ago and we also started a vegetable garden, which will help us reduce our operating costs while providing the community with a source of food.

Thanks to your donations, we were able to start the construction of two additional buildings which we will use to house those community members (mainly orphans and women) who are no longer able to live with their biological families. A group of young volunteers that has been living with us for months is donating many, many hours of hard labor to turn this project into a reality, despite our very small budget. Your donations made it possible for us to buy the materials that we needed to start the construction work.

I will leave you with some pictures that I took in February during my last visit. In these pictures you can see some of the children we look after, our vegetable garden, and some of the volunteers working on the buildings.

Thank you, from all of us, from the bottom of our hearts.