Helping Hands in Africa | Restoring Hope for the Future.

HIV/AIDS
PARTner Training | AIDS Home Based Care
AIDS Orphans

The figures are unremittingly stark. 25 million people in Africa are infected with AIDS. 11 million children have lost at least one parent to AIDS and that number is likely to rise to 20 million by the end of the decade a report by the U.N. Children’s Fund predicts. (More...)

Making Sense of AIDS
This project is aimed at educating and helping the general public to make informed choices about HIV/AIDS as well as making people sensitive towards those already infected with HIV. Two hour information presentations are run in schools, workplaces, youth groups and other community groups. It is a highly interactive and visual presentation, engaging the audience and challenging lifestyle changes.

PARTner Training
To address the issue of infection reduction, peer group workers are trained through our Peer Action Resource Team (PARTner) life skills courses, enabling people to provide counseling and education to their communities to mobilize peer group workers to work in their communities promoting safe choices and working against AIDS discrimination.

AIDS Home Based Care
Our professional nurses, along with trained Care Givers from the local communities, care for the sick in their homes giving nursing care, medicines, food, support and counseling to the family.

AIDS Orphans
One of the major focus areas of Helping Hands is care for AIDS Orphans. See our Childcare projects for more information.

Mission statement
Helping Hands is dedicated to restoring hope for the future in disadvantaged communities by providing opportunities for individuals in the community to develop skills that will equip them to take responsibility for their own economic, health, educational, social and spiritual upliftment.