Caring for Orphans and other Children Affected by HIV/AIDS

"We now have a car to go to the community where we couldn’t reach the people before the Global Fund, we have money for the carers, money to take the patients to the hospital and back home; to buy food for the patients, so that makes a big difference." - Mary Mabogoane, Philanjalo Home-Based Orphan Care
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Nkosinathi is a two year old orphan who contracted HIV at birth. He now lives with his grandmother, in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa's most-affected province. Like Nkosinathi, over 600,000 Orphans and other children affected by AIDS are receiving care and treatment through Global Fund support in sub-Saharan Africa.

Over 300 trained caregivers from Philanjalo, an organization in Kwa-Zulu Natal, visit homes like Nkosinathi's and other children regularly to teach them, provide food, guidance, counseling, social support, school fees, and donated clothes. The organization also provides psychosocial and other services to 500 adults and over 160 orphans. Learn from Mary Mabogoane, who is responsible for the programme that takes care of orphans within their homes, about the types of services that Philanjalo provides.