Home-Based Care for People Living
with HIV-AIDES
In 1999, Mama Na Dada established a training program for 43 Community Health Workers whose job it would be to provide support and care to people in need. This care includes nursing care, medication administration, transportation assistance to the hospital, regular home visits, food preparation, dissemination of supplies including mosquito nets, food, blankets, home repair and HIV testing for community members. To date, there are 27 Community Health Workers who volunteer their time to serve approximately 68 people. Home-based care recipients range in age from 12 to 75.
Our 27 trained Community Health Workers walk dozens of miles each week to visit our AIDS clients too ill to come to the Center. The HCWs bring a small bag of porridge ingredients, nursing care, counseling, occasional legal advice and always their love and compassion. Although most of them are also extremely poor, they have done this for over 2 years with no pay and wish to continue. Bicycles would be greatly appreciated and would facilitate a farther outreach. The women plan to start a food growing project that could make their “Fighting AIDS with FOOD” venture self-sustaining.
As the number of people testing positive for HIV began increasing in
our community, we witnessed many people succumbing to depression and
the physical inability to care for themselves. Many people, once sick,
are unable to get food and water and have no one to care for them.
The result is premature death, alone and desperate. Mama Na Dada created
the Home-Based Care Project to provide needed emotional and physical
support to HIV positive individuals who are unable to care for themselves.
It costs approximately $ 50 USD a month to support a homebound person living with AIDS.To make a much needed donation, visit Global Partners for Development. In the donation area, you can specify how you would like your donation to be used.