Many people with AIDS related illnesses end their lives at home. Often institutional care is unavailable, overcrowded, unsanitary, low quality or just unaffordable. Even where some level of medical help is available, those with AIDS may elect to stay home, with families and loved ones. In places like Zambia and Malawi, this means that communities, already struggling with poverty and large numbers of AIDS orphans, have an extra burden of care. Home based care is as old as the AIDS epidemic in Africa. In almost every Southern African community people are caring for their loved ones, often making a tiny amount of cash stretch a long way.

Just 10 pounds or 20 dollars will make a big difference. Click on the button below to donate to both the home-based care and the costs of the trip:

Please email Tom at tscalway@iphc.org.uk if you would like to pay using another payment method.

We have sent out a message to our colleagues working in Southern Africa to help us identify community groups delivering quality home-based care. By May we will be announcing which organisations we will be funding.

E-mail: tscalway@iphc.org.uk

Tom Scalway, having spent over two years in Zambia, and having good connections with Malawi, is going to ensure that any funds raised are channeled directly to a handful of community-based organisations in both of these countries. He will do in a way that minimises the amount going to the organisational costs of agencies working in this area, and in a way that maximises the amount of practical assistance being received by those in need. All transactions will be published on this website.

Or click on the button below to donate to just the cause alone (we will cover costs of trip):