Dale Aitken

A Prayer: No Income

[The Project administers a Government programme for its own workers and some 100 others, that pays some £60pm for doing work in the community – from May to January.] “We pray for those whose income ends this month, with no certainty that it will re-start in May. We pray that those who are fearful willContinue reading “A Prayer: No Income”

No I.D.

This is a couple who are both HIV positive and drinking well the treatment. They do not have ID documents because they come from Swaziland. Sometimes they don’t drink the treatment because they do not have food to eat. They are staying in a one room shack [not the building behind them!]. We told themContinue reading “No I.D.”

A Prayer for Masoyi

“Please bless the masoyi community: bringing industry and commerce into the area, creating local work with honest leaders concerned for the good of the people bringing a change for good in the treatment of women and girls with increasing trust in Your love and Your power. Thank you.

HIV, cancer and no income

This 49-year old man from Swalala is HIV-positive and has cancer in the testicles. He drinks his treatment well, but he is suffering from severe pain where they have done the operation, and his wound is leaking. He lives alone in a two-room house, and does not get any social grant. We referred him toContinue reading “HIV, cancer and no income”

January Prayer

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A Prayer

“Thank you for Ma Flo [Chief Executive Officer] and Jabu [Child Care Coordinator], who have given such selfless service to the most needy in the Masoyi community over so many years. May you be their comfort when their hearts are breaking; may you be their guide when the way ahead seems confused and unclear; andContinue reading “A Prayer”

Patient Care Challenges:

Some of our clients are still mixing traditional medicine with their treatment. Some of our clients are defaulting their treatments because of not having food, but others are ignorant. Some of the clients are still in denial stage. Some of our clients are defaulting because they don’t have money to go to the clinic. Some ofContinue reading “Patient Care Challenges:”

Patient Support Groups

This is the support group in Mthimba, which is facilitated by Florah, one of our patient care workers. We had 53 clients that attended. We have support groups in all the seven areas where we operate.

Accidental overdose

We visited a family at Phola area. The father and son were HIV positive, and the clinic had given them 3 months treatment. They didn’t tell them how to take the treatment and they were overdosing on it. We explained the treatment to them and gave a food parcel, but they both ended upContinue reading “Accidental overdose”

Peer Educators’ Graduation

“On 26th November, we hosted a graduation ceremony at K2 center for all our Peer educators from the four different high schools. We invited lot of motivational speakers and they all came; and we invited some of our stakeholders and they showed up too. In the morning, I thought it would be just a fiascoContinue reading “Peer Educators’ Graduation”