Home-based Care

Hospitals are over-run and understaffed and given the long term nature of AIDS, many people have no choice but to remain at home. This can place a considerable burden on families or indeed may mean the infected person is alone, as all families’ members have already shunned them. Home-based care, while emotionally the most challenging, is one of our programme’s strongest areas. With approximately 50 people within our projects living with HIV and AIDS, a fair number of whom are terminally ill or cannot care for themselves, it is easy to see why. These people need all the attention and care that there is to give.

 

By way of our partners, the home based care programme aims to provide the basic knowledge, materials and economic assistance to those who care for such patients. Volunteering in this programme would give one the opportunity to improve the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS by both giving care to the ill and learning how to train resident caregivers. Whether experienced in this field or not, one will find that there is more than enough work to be done.