Maua Methodist Hospital AIDS Orphans Project and the Disabled Children's Community Programme


This Hospital has a holistic programme of care for people living with HIV/AIDS including a project that is enabling families to keep orphaned children within their home area, by a feeding programme and by providing school uniforms and books, medical care, etc.

Their carers, mostly unsupported grandmothers, are being supported through groups and micro-finance projects towards self sufficiency. Karibuni Trust is proud to be a partner in this programme.

At Machungulu a community centre was built by the women themselves, even baking the bricks on site. There is an outreach clinic based there serving the outlying area. ARV drugs are becoming more widely available and the surviving partner of someone who has died of AIDS is living longer.

Also at Maua we are in partnership with the Disability Community Centre to help them in fund raising for their programme of empowering children and adults with disabilities. This project is getting increasing support from the local and national government with their agenda of enabling more children with physical and learning, vision and hearing disabilities to be educated in main-stream schools. Imaginative schemes for vocational training have been started and even young children are learning about animal husbandry, starting with breeding rabbits for meat and growing vegetables etc.
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