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Institutions for orphans

In sub-Saharan Africa, around 14.8 million children have been orphaned by AIDS and they need intensive and wide-ranging support to go beyond survival to live life to the full. Most Jesuit AIDS ministries reach out to orphans and vulnerable children in one way or other. Centres, associations, parishes, schools and

Jesuit-founded associations

Over the years some Jesuits took the initiative to respond to urgent needs they saw around them by founding programmes or organisations. Jesuit provinces have incorporated some, like the Jesuit AIDS Project, while others remain autonomous and retain close ties with the Society of Jesus. There are two such associations

Schools and educational institutions

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

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.

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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

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