Today we spoke to Frank Maphosa – from Wola Nani. Wola Nani, Xhosa for ‘we embrace and develop one another’, was established in 1994 as a non-profit organisation to help bring relief to the communities hardest hit by the HIV crisis. Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programmes to help HIV+ people in the local community cope with the emotional and you can contact their offices at (021) 447 2091 or visit www.wolanani.co.za.
Our last interview was with Dawn Fish – Assistant Project Manager from Mosaic women’s training service and healing centre. Mosaic delivers a range of social support services and projects to members of the society mainly women and female youth caught up in gender violence, and in more recent years because of the strong correlation between rape/sexual violence and the chances of becoming HIV+, to those infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. For more information you can contact their offices at (021) 761 7585 or send an email to admin@mosaic.org.za alternatively visit www.mosaic.org.za
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