 |
 Home Overseas Projects Southern Africa Projects
AMP supports youth development in Cape Town
Delegates to the 2008 AMP Offshore Convention in Cape Town will be able to learn about the unique cultural diversity and development challenges of South African communities. In collaboration with AMP, Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA will enable delegates to contribute to a program that is improving the lives of young people in the Heideveld community, near the Cape Town airport. ...
Community development with HIV orphans and vulnerable children
HIV in southern Africa
In the early 1990s, rates of HIV infection in South Africa were very low, but now SA has joined its neighbouring countries in facing a terrible epidemic. SA now has over 5 million people living with HIV. In some provinces almost a third of women giving birth have HIV. In Zimbabwe, the trade unions estimate 5,000 die each week from AIDS. The epidemic of HIV interacts with other illnesses, such as TB, to pose especially acute challenges. The epidemic is not only a human disaster of unparallelled suffering; HIV threatens the economy and society, weakens the workforce and food production, interrupts leadership and the usual generational cycles. The epidemic has required responses in terms of discrimination, policy, education, support, care treatments and orphan care....
2006-2007 Donor Report
Donations in the past financial year have assisted in providing HIV education and support to workers via the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions. ...
Urgent Human Rights Issues
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has ongoing campaigns relating to:- Zimbabwe Human Rights
- HIV Treatments Access
- Western Sahara
...
|
