allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Thirty Alumnus pl alumni in Home-Based Care, Herbal Gardening Method (Page 1 of 1)
The initiative was meant to combat the spread of HIV and Aids as beefy as fight stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV and Aids in the area.
Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity, who is and the Zanu-PF candidate for Mhondoro-Ngezi, Cde Effulgent Matonga, said the first move was mooted after the realisation that most humans were dying because of lack of access to treatment and anti-retroviral drugs.
We realised that care-givers who are also living with HIV and Aids will address the locale with a passion because they are also in the same predicament as the patients they look after," Cde Matonga said. However, because of local availability of ARVs, Cde Matonga said people were immediately turning to herbal remedies, thus the need to train the activists in herbal gardening.
St Michael's Network progenitor member, Mr Richman Rangwani, appealed to the corporate microcosm to assist in funding the projects which were still in their infancy.
We all differentiate that when people amuse gravely ill, they are brought to the rural areas where there is limited access to treatment.
Thus our membership continues to grow everyday but we accept limited funding to sustain most of our projects," Mr Rangwani said. Currently, the network has a membership of nearly 1 100 people. Mr Rangwani said only 500 of those were on anti-retroviral therapy.
Zimbabwe European Union micro projects regional director Mr Ndumiso Ntaisi said his organisation if almost 60 000 euros for the net° to train members and purchase accoutrement for herbal gardening. The 30 graduates also received home-based aggravation training kits and uniforms.
Mr Ntaisi said his organisation was community-based and assisted organisations with at least 75 percent funding for their projects. The organisations should be capable to sustain themselves after we leave them," he said.
The Deputy Minister of Condition and Child Welfare, Dr Edwin Muguti, and Reverend Obadiah Msindo of the Destiny for Africa Network also attended the function. Reverend Msindo dona-ted $1 billion to St Michael's Network and another $4 billion for other plan in the constituency.
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