Siyanqoba Community Support Group, South Africa

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This group is a partner of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Here's how they describe their work:

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" Home-based care is ubuntu in action. This isiZulu word describes compassion and humanity for all. Visiting homes in our rural areas means reaching those most in need and giving support by teaching, nursing and providing what help we can in the way of food, clothes and support. We are a lifeline for the most vulnerable in our community. Home-based care shows our community members that we care, and this improves their health and their quality of life. We give them hope.”

 

Passionate leaders, like those at Siyanqoba, are holding on to hope while they face the immediate and compounding impacts of abrupt U.S. funding loss that threatens to undo decades of hard-fought progress against the HIV epidemic. SLF partners and their communities across 14 countries in Africa have been affected. They remain determined in their resolve and are finding ways, as much as possible, to continue caring for their communities.

 

                                                                Stephen Lewis Foundation

                                                                                           April 2025

 

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