With close to 100 educational institutions in Africa, Jesuits and their co-workers come in contact with thousands of young people and are ideally placed to carry out HIV prevention. To avoid heaping “more of the same” information that their students get tired of hearing, schools, educational centres and university chaplaincies
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Christian communities
In some African countries, CLC groups undertake AIDS-related ministry. CLC stands for Christian Life Community, an international association of people who come together in small groups to pray, reflect and seek God’s will as individuals and as a community. Their spirituality is deeply rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St
Parishes
Experience has taught us that the parish is a privileged place to fight AIDS. Apart from pastoral care for those who are sick, rejected or bereaved, structures have been put in place to offer close and concrete support to people affected by the pandemic. Some parishes run clinics while volunteer
Stand-alone centres
Some African Jesuit provinces and regions have centres dedicated to countering HIV/AIDS. There are such centres in Burundi, Madagascar, Togo and Zimbabwe. The first three offer prevention activities and holistic care and support; the fourth focuses on youth. All advocate for access to treatment.
AJANews 112 – October 2012
In this issue of AJANews, we bring you news about a successful joint initiative that saw the Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) in Zimbabwe sharing its expertise in youth development with Chikuni parish in rural Zambia. From Rwanda, a Jesuit shares his moving testimony of accompanying people with HIV. And we
SOWING SEEDS OF HOPE
Fifty-three-year-old Elizabeth Shankwaya lives with her six children in Chikuni in Zambia’s Southern Province. After her husband died, the bed she had shared with him and the metal roof of their home were removed, as per Tonga tradition. Nine years later, in 2007, Elizabeth was diagnosed with HIV. Hers is
LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN
Fr Bernard Karerwa SJ “You are a priest and this is why I am going to tell you everything,” the woman told me, holding me with a penetrating gaze. Actually, I was not yet a priest then, but on my way to becoming one, as I explained to her when
WHY CAN’T I BE LIKE THEM?
Twenty-two-year-old Mainga Munsanje, a peer educator with the Chikuni Parish HBC, shares her experience of the JAP workshop: As a peer educator, the workshop has created a lot of confidence within me. The speakers were excellent and presented the materials with lots of motivation. After the workshop, I asked myself:
WORKING TOGETHER: JAP WORKSHOP IN ZAMBIA PARISH
A veteran team of trainers from the Harare-based Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) recently conducted a workshop for young people in a rural parish in Zambia. The joint project was sparked by the efforts of AJAN to promote more mainstreaming of Jesuit AIDS programmes as well as coordination between the different
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