The heart of the Hands at Work vision is based around 'home-based visits' and I've been hearing a lot about them so it was great to spend the morning going with a team of home-carers to see what really goes on. I was able to take some great pics, that tell the story. The goal of the program is to train and empower local people to go and visit and provide encouragement, prayer and medical advice (if they have that much training) to people that are sick in the community. This is a way to care for sick people and encourage them to take their medicines, and to provide love for HIV+ people that others stigmatize. This type of program is successful in many communities around Africa and doesn't require a lot of training or hospitals. Because of HIV & AIDS wiping out many adults who have kids, this model of home-based care is now being adjusted to include visits to child-headed-households where an older child, maybe teenager, is caring for their sibling in a home where they used to live.
Actually each house we visited today seemed like a success story. Most of them are doing well on whatever meds they're on and doing much better than they had in the past. Check out the pictures.
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