Southern Africa Affiliates
Regional Overview
In a region ranging from forest and grassland to desert, mountains, and coast, Southern Africa has a vast array of cultures, languages, and heritage. Yet, in the midst of such grandeur and diversity, HIV/AIDS decimates the whole of Southern Africa with the highest infection and death rates in the world.
Partners Worldwide walks alongside people in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia to strengthen businesses and create jobs, yet all partnerships reflect the reality of HIV/AIDS. Each partnership utilizes an economic component that helps entrepreneurs and businesspeople leverage their gifts and strengths in order to reduce rates of HIV/AIDS through tools such as mentoring relationships, business training, and a sustainable business approach to overcome this epidemic.
South Africa - SAHAC
Soweto
SAHAC is a South African/North American Christian response to the HIV-AIDS pandemic that unites and catalyzes businesses, churches, schools, healthcare, government, and media to prevent HIV infections among teenagers and pre-teens. By seeding the “Courage Movement”, a growing youth-driven social movement of abstinence and marital fidelity, SAHAC is providing teenagers peer-support groups to find their own identity and to turn the tide of beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors that contribute to HIV infection. The result? Sustainable prevention giving the next generation hope for an AIDS-free life.
Local businesses also collaborate by offering “learnership” opportunities and business apprenticeships that provide youth access to meaningful jobs and economic improvement. The vision is a flourishing post-AIDS Africa, where God’s hand is clearly visible. www.sahac.org
PDF - April, 2011 South Africa Newsletter, Christ Memorial Reformed Church
Stories
Called to Walk Alongside - Living out the Calling: Makoekie Tsotetsi
Friday April 8, 2011
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As part of the nationwide movement to overcome HIV/AIDS, South African businesswoman Makoekie Tsotetsi has mentored dozens of young adults over the past four years.
Businesses offer kids a brighter future
Sunday July 25, 2010
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As a client of SAHAC, Mdumiseni Nkosi today manages a family business that employs 20 people in metal paneling, and offers “learnership” opportunities for youth to gain business experience and make good life choices.
“The need for good choices hits closer to home for me than most,” says Mdumiseni. In the 1980s, he stopped working as a teenager in the family business. He soon started stealing and doing drugs. After two decades, he was caught robbing a bank in 2001 and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.