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2008-2009 Missionvale: Report to Donors
Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA is pleased to have been able to assist with the community initiative to raise funds in Australia for Missionvale, since late 2006. Between then and now we have transferred over $45,000 to Missionvale Care Centre, to be used for costs of training and other developmental projects....
2008-2009 Zimbabwe: Report to Donors
In the past financial year, your generous donations have assisted in providing emergency food assistance in Zimbabwe and in maintaining the operations of the Zimbabwean unions....
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....
Urgent Human Rights Issues
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has ongoing campaigns relating to:- Zimbabwe Human Rights
- HIV Treatments Access
- Western Sahara
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