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Re Athusa was established in April 2002 and operates from the local clinic. The care givers say that in the beginning the response from the community was not so positive. The people did not understand what Home Based Care was all about and did not want to let the carers into the houses. Today however, the organisation has gained the confidence of the community and their services are welcomed by their clients. The women at Re Athusa work part time and at present they have 38 registered patients in 3 villages. Apart from the Home Based Care program they also work to promote awareness around HIV/AIDS in the communities as well as identify orphans and vulnerable children and refer them to the social workers. The main challenge faced by the organisation is the total lack of funding. Since the beginning they have not received any financial support and they have to use their personal limited assets to roll out awareness campaigns, attend training or network with other organisations.
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In Mpepule village, approximately 30 minutes from Giyani along the road to Tzaneen, in Limpopo, South Africa, 20 women of different ages deliver Home Based Care to their fellow community members. The women started out as volunteers to clean and maintain the local clinic but after having attended a training workshop in Home Based Care they decided to start delivering the service to the community. One of the care givers explains: “We started out as volunteers to clean the clinic, but then the man came from Giyani and trained us in Home Based Care… Some people left the organisation but we see that our people is very sick so we encourage ourselves, we must help them”.
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