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Feature Stories
Swaziland
Empowering Students with Permaculture Gardens
In the last few years, local homesteads in the rural Lubombo region have struggled, as most people do not have access to the nutritious vegetables needed to maintain good health. Orphans and otherwise vulnerable children affected or infected by HIV have an especially difficult time...
School Nurse Gives Life-Changing Support to Orphans
Cebsile Msane is a visiting school nurse for the Bantwana Schools Integrated Program (BSIP). Through the program she travels among 10 schools, diagnosing and treating hundreds of kids with flu, cholera, malaria, and scabies, among other illnesses. Without a designated nurse's office, she sets up a make-shift exam room—usually an empty classroom—wherever she can…
Raising Chickens, Supporting Orphans
Like many people in southern Africa, the Nyandeni family of Lavumisa
has been dramatically affected by AIDS. Losing both parents in
the past 10 years, the nine Nyandeni children have been left
to raise themselves…
Moyeni Social Care Centre
Zandile, four years old, like many other children in Swaziland,
lost her father, and her mother makes a living from working as
a casual domestic laborer in Siteki, a small town in the South-eastern
part of Swaziland. Zandile attends the Moyeni Social Care Centre
in Siteki…
Tanzania
Vulnerable Children Speak Out
In an effort to develop effective programming for the most vulnerable children (MVC) in Tanzania's Northern Zone, Bantwana's Pamoja Tuwalee program ("Together We Nurture the Children") gathered 15 vulnerable youth for a focus group discussion. This activity was...
Uganda
HIV Prevention Program Helps Struggling Family Get Back on their Feet
Joyce, a 42-year-old second wife in a polygamous family, was abandoned when her husband married a third wife. Left with no rights to the family's property and no support from her husband, Joyce could no longer provide for their five children...
Leading the Way for Child Protection.
Twelve-year-old Prince Ssemakula is already changing the way children’s rights are protected in his community. As chairperson of his school’s child rights club...
Across the Generations: Bantwana Offers Support for Children
and Caregiver Grandmothers
"When I was young, I would pray to God everyday to help me. My
friends in school would encourage me, and the teachers would
tell me to keep trying, but it has been really hard," says Charles…
Gaining a Skill and Independence with the Help of Bantwana
and All Saints Church
Doreen Chelangat had dropped out of school. The reason was painfully
ordinary: Her family couldn't afford the school fees. An uncle,
who had been her caretaker since her parents died when…
Using Head and Hands Together—Rushooka Orphans Education
Center
Vincent and Dorah Rutangonya's decision to devote their lives
to raising orphaned children was a deeply personal one: they
grew up as orphans themselves…
Zimbabwe
Helping Health Workers Go the Extra Mile
By early 2000, an estimated 160,000 children were living with HIV in Zimbabwe and only 1-in-16 had access to life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs...
From Hardship to Hope: School Supplies for Zimbabwe's Vulnerable Children
All across Zimbabwe, a generation of children is being raised by their grandparents. This is the distinguishing mark of a country where many children have lost one or both parents...
Giving Vulnerable Children a Second Chance at School
A group of students sits attentively in a small room with unplastered walls. A teacher asks a question, and a flurry of hands goes up. To the casual observer, this looks like a normal class...
Restoring Childhood
Nine-year old Kudakwashe Zinyemba has been orphaned by AIDS and lives alone with his eleven-year old brother,
Brighton, in a rural village about 40 kilometers outside of Zimbabwe’s capital city...
Opportunities for Street Children
A local NGO provides alternative education to street children and opportunities to return to formal schools...
Using Soccer to Fight HIV
A local NGO harnesses the power of sport to engage children in learning about HIV...