Emasithandane Chidren's Organisation still making a difference in orphans lives 20 years later


Mama Zelphina Maposela founder & director of Emasithandane Children’s organisation has  always been interested in community development and worked for years with community health programs focused on home-based care towards patients suffering from tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.  In 1981 Mama and her colleagues started a door-to-door mobile clinic to visit those who were sick and couldn’t help themselves. As many of these patients laid in bed dying, they worried about their children’s stigmatized future as AIDS orphans. So Mama promised to find them a safe home. On the line was Mama Maposela telling us how she looks after the 39 kids she has unde her care…For more infor visit www.masithandane.org.za

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