All Posts by Dennis Owuoche

On 31 July, Fr Michael Lewis SJ, President of the Jesuit Superiors of Africa and Madagascar (JESAM), declared Chikuni Parish Home-Based Care (HBC) program in southern Zambia as the winner of the first award for excellence in Jesuit AIDS ministry in Africa and Madagascar. JESAM and the African Jesuit AIDS

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The Centre Espérance Loyola (CEL – Loyola Hope Centre) in Togo presented as its best practice a summer camp that teaches youth the values of solidarity and mutual respect. Set up by the West African Jesuit Province in 2006, the CEL is based in Agoè-Nyivé, a suburb of Lomé. The

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The Upendo program for vulnerable children is located in Kangemi, a slum in Nairobi that is marked by many social problems, among them AIDS, high levels of unemployment, poor housing conditions, drug, alcohol and substance abuse. Many children are at risk of neglect and abuse, and some live on the

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St Aloysius Secondary School aims to provide quality education to needy orphans and vulnerable children living in Kibera slum, Nairobi. In the tradition of Ignatian pedagogy, the education offered, while primarily academic, is holistic in nature and aims to form the young students to become “men and women for others”.

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The Association Solidarité, Vie et Santé (ASVS – Association of Solidarity, Life and Health) in Ouagadougou caters mostly to women with HIV who are poor and have been abandoned by their families. The aim of the association is to improve the women’s living conditions by offering medical, psychosocial and educational

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Before the birth of the Uzima program of St Joseph the Worker parish in Kangemi, it was taboo to speak about AIDS in this Nairobi slum. In 2004, Uzima (“life” in Swahili) created a space where people with HIV could come and get support to cope with their situation. The

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The best practice presented by the Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) is a mobile clinic for people with HIV that has led to increased rates of treatment adherence and of healthy children born to HIV-positive mothers. The mobile clinic team goes daily to villages in Bujumbura Rural, the province surrounding the

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The Chikuni Parish Home-Based Care (HBC) program in southern Zambia was awarded for excellence for its new four-phase approach that strives to offer a more individualised and sustainable service to over 1000 people with HIV. Chikuni HBC was set up in 2000 at a time when many people with AIDS

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