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The Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust

The Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust is an holistic HIV/AIDS project which was started in 1991. Since its inception, the Centre has attempted to uplift the lives of those both infected and affected by HIV/AIDS through practical and sustainable care. As new challenges and opportunities have presented themselves, the Centre has adapted its approach to addressing both the disease and the effects of it on the community.

Projects now include:
  • Voluntary Testing and Counselling - This includes pre and post test counselling as well as CD4 counts for all those who are diagnosed positive.
  • ARVT referral and monitoring - Any patients with a CD4 of 200 or below are referred for treatment - others are monitored until they need referral.
  • HIV/AIDS Education/life skills training - Done in schools and businesses.
  • Horticulture - This food garden project helps people to establish and sustain a food garden at home.
  • Home Based Care - Four registered nurses back up 50 home-based care volunteers out in the field providing care at home to people who are ill within the community.
  • Respite Care Unit - This eight bed respite unit is where the Centre provides a home away from home to patients who are ill and do not have a caregiver at home. It is a place for people to either recover or die with dignity and love.
  • Income Generation - Viewed by us as the most fundamental aspect of the care programme as it uplifts people giving them a reason to live. Our income generation project includes beadwork, wirework, pottery, fabric painting, sewing, crochet, second hand clothes and of course Little Travellers.
  • Feeding scheme - This project is aimed at getting clients over a crisis, and not to create dependency. Food feeds the body but does not raise self-esteem. The clients are put onto the feeding scheme initially for six months. Assistance is given to access government support and they are enrolled onto one of the income generation projects.
  • School fee project - This has children in England raising money to pay for school fees for children who have been disadvantaged by the effects of HIV/AIDS here.


The Centre looks at each family and individual and tries to create a package of care that suits them, with the knowledge that everyone's needs or perceived needs are different. This way the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people are addressed. Most importantly however, our mission is to provide unconditional love to members of our community that are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.


ABOUT WOZA MOYA

Woza Moya is an income generation project of the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust. It helps those in need regain Hope and Dignity by getting them to use their creativity to earn an income. At present Woza Moya acts as an agent for over 200 crafters. As the AIDS epidemic increases more families are turning to us for help and we assist them by offering training in different crafts. Woza Moya markets the goods made and we have a small shop which belongs to the crafters on the centre premises.

The project has proven that with the right care and access to medication lives can be turned around. We have found that economic empowerment is one of the most important factors in fighting this epidemic because as it gives the crafters the luxury of looking to the future. In doing so they take ownership of their disease and have something to live FOR! The health benefits of this alone can never be underestimated.
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