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  1. Dr Mitchell Besser and Ms Pat Qolo
    Imagine being told that you are not only pregnant but HIV-positive as well. For the hundreds of thousands of South African women who have received this news, there has been little support from overworked clinic staff, and frequently little...

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  2. Mrs Joan Adams
    Mrs Joan Adams started the Morning Star Children’s Centre in Welkom for HIV-positive children. The organisation now looks after over 110 children in Welkom and Kutlwanong, as well as providing extensive support for their families. Joan Adam’s story is inspirational and illustrates...

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  3. The dedicated Topsy Foundation staff

    The Topsy Foundation has a vision of flourishing rural communities where people have the tools for change and where young people, in particular, are productive members of society, in spite of the impact of HIV and AIDS and poverty.



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  4. Dr Margaret Hardman

    Dr Hardman and her husband Harry started the AIDS Care Training and Support (ACTS) Community Clinic in White River, Mpumalanga, which provides comprehensive medical care and support for thousands of people living with HIV and AIDS in the Masoyi Tribal Area. Fifteen years ago,...

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  5. Sister Priscilla Dlamini
    Sister Dlamini started the Holy Cross Hospice in Emoyeni, KwaZulu-Natal in 2000, which today looks after 40 in-patients, 200 AIDS patients in their homes and over 1 300 orphans in the community. Sister Dlamini is a woman with a vision that keeps on growing,...

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  6. Ma Albina and Helping Hand

    Ma Albina Maleka is 64 years old, an age when most people think of retiring. After working for 40 years as a nurse, Ma Albina had certainly earned her right to a relaxing and peaceful retirement. But this resourceful, caring woman simply...

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  7. Mama Lumka

    Mama Lumka was referred to as the ‘Wheelbarrow Saint’ when she started collecting, each weekday morning, all the disabled babies and children in her township area in a wheelbarrow.  She would then carefully wheel them back to her humble house where she...

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  8. Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA)

    This organisation was started by a group of feisty grandmothers from Khayelitsha in Cape Town. All of the founding grandmothers had been affected by the HIV epidemic in some way. Many had lost one or more of their children to AIDS and...

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  9. AIDSbuzz Champions

    Welcome to the site where we celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things 

    These people are truly AIDSbuzz Champions - they have made AIDS their business by dedicating their time and talents to helping the people and communities worst hit by the disease. We chose the word champion carefully. It means a...

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  10. The Group of Hope
    This Group consists of 20 male maximum security prisoners at Brandvlei prison near Worcester who have given hope to nearly 30 AIDS orphans by ‘adopting’ them. The children are brought regularly to the prison where they receive material and emotional support from the Group's...

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  11. Beading mothers weaving positive lives…
    Kate Gray and a team of HIV-positive beading mothers were recently commissioned to design and make a beaded South African flag to sit in the head of a walking stick for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday present. The inlaid flag had to fit...

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  12. International volunteers

    Many volunteers come from overseas to help non-profit organisations in South Africa. Lean on Me in Durban places oversees volunteers in a number of different projects that are dedicated to helping relieve the plight of children and adults affected...

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  13. Khazimula champions

    In a scenario that will be increasingly repeated all over the country, as the number of orphans and vulnerable children escalates, the centre of Howick in KwaZulu-Natal became the operating ground of a pack of wayward street children. Tourists and residents were...

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  14. The Phedišang Model
    Phedišang is a Northern Sotho (Sepedi) word, which means 'help them to live' and the mission of Phedišang is to do just that for orphans and vulnerable children in the Maruleng Municipality of Limpopo Province. Phedišang recognizes the importance of keeping children...

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  15. Women of The heartfelt Project

    Creating employment, empowering women and giving hope to a community is the aim of The heartfelt Project in Makapanstad. The heartfelt story has a sad beginning: the death in prison of Emmanuel, wrongly accused 26 year-old son of Martha Letsoalo. For nine...

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  16. Eight-year old Zolani living positively with HIV
    Zolani (not his real name) likes nothing better than to play with his friends and eat amasi. When he first started antiretroviral treatment though he felt far too sick to eat, but now things are much better. No-one has to remind him...

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  17. Andrew Muir and the Umzi Wethu Initiative
    The Umzi Wethu Training Academy for Displaced Youth, started by Andrew Muir in the Eastern Cape, is a multifaceted intervention programme that targets orphaned and displaced youth, providing them with vocational training in the field of ecotourism, as...

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  18. Catherine Makhubedu
    Catherine Makhubedu, along with seven other inspirational women in South Africa, won a Soul City award in 2003 for helping to make a significant difference to the lives and futures of AIDS-affected children in their country. An orphan herself, Catherine vowed to help make...

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