Around 460 people did an HIV test thanks to a door-to-door campaign organised by the Jesuit parish in a poor Nairobi suburb with the aim of promoting zero mother-to-child transmission. Uzima, a programme of St Joseph the Worker Parish that tackles the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS in Kangemi, organised the
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KENYA: UPENDO & UZIMA, KANGEMI
The Development Office of the Jesuit parish of St Joseph the Worker in Kangemi runs the sister programmes of Uzima and Upendo. Both belong to the Small Christian Communities (SCCs) of the parish. The first cares for people with HIV and the second for children at risk of abuse or
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Jesuit projects for orphans and vulnerable children in Africa
The Loyola Hope Centre in Lomé, Togo, a centre dedicated to the care of people with HIV and orphans and to HIV prevention, offers orphans educational and psychosocial support. At the start of the 2010-2011 academic year, 122 children received school uniforms and supplies and their school fees were covered.
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DONNEZ UN FUTUR À UN ORPHELIN
« Moi, le Seigneur, je connais les projets que je forme pour vous. Je le déclare : ce ne sont pas des projets de malheur mais des projets de bonheur. Je veux vous donner un avenir plein d’espérance. » Jérémie 29, 11 En Afrique sub-saharienne, 15 millions d’enfants ont
POPE BENEDICT: APPEAL FOR WORLD AIDS DAY
“World AIDS Day, a United Nations initiative intended to draw attention to a disease that has caused millions of deaths and tragic human suffering, will fall on 1 December. HIV/AIDS particularly affects the poorest regions of the world, where there is very limited access to effective medicines. My thoughts turn
WORLD AIDS DAY 2012: Don’t forget people struggling to deal with AIDS
Don’t forget people struggling to deal with AIDS and make the most of community-based efforts to support them and to move towards self-reliance. This is the message of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) to international agencies, donors and African governments as the world marks World AIDS Day by reiterating
Research and communications
AIDS is a crosscutting issue for Jesuit social centres in sub-Saharan Africa, whose research and action are guided by faith and social justice. Their advocacy and education work often focuses on or incorporates AIDS-related issues. Individual Jesuits also write, speak and conduct research about AIDS. Close to the people, two
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
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