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Thursday, 09 April 2009 12:32 |
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Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. In this rural area HIV raged to its full extent, infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on the life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. In 2007 only, 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable; they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but now a self-confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other. http://www.tuproject.org/
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Written by Sarah Van den Elsken
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:02 |
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Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. Some young local women have taken up responsibility, they walk from house to house to help those in need. 145 People living in the rural area around Manguzi, organized in the NGO Tholulwazi Uzivikele, take care of their fellow-villagers. They try to educate on HIV testing, HIV treatments and condom use in the hope to break the deep-seated isolation of the HIV positive. Abused and abandoned children are located so these can be helped with food provision, school uniforms or housing. They offer people a window to knowledge and welfare. Knowing the cultural habits with their weak and strong sides, these volunteers have a very strong influence. Around 11 a.m. one of the volunteers, Rose (32), arrives at Ndabeni’s house. The door is locked, she peers through a tiny window. A penetrating smell of excrements and festering wounds surrounds her. An old woman lying lifeless on the ground is staring emptily at Rose. Through the window she helps herself in. Ndabeni (78) was left in her hut to die after she got hit by a car. Since Rose found her, she passes by twice a week to nurse her wounds and change the sheets. http://www.tuproject.org/
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Written by Sarah Van den Elsken
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:02 |
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Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. In a tiny hut on a deserted hill, Busi (20) is waking up. Her parents and her sister passed away, she has been the head of the family for more than three years now. She was left behind with two younger siblings, the orphan child of her older sister and two children of yet another sister that has left for a better life in Mozambique. After years of extreme poverty, she now found a boyfriend who slips her some money now and then. Three nights of unprotected sex a week is what she is forced to give in return, knowing he sees other women as well. Since then her family can go to school. It’s a sacrifice she makes to give them a better chance in life. In Kwa-Zulu Natal HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is part of a documentary on the life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. How do neighbors, children, mothers and friends survive when almost an entire generation has vanished by HIV/AIDS?
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 08:23 |
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Godelieve Lambrecht (96), Lebbeke — 'In mei word ik 97. Ik amuseer me nog elke dag. Met mijn handwerk, mijn denksportboekjes, met door de gangen van het rusthuis te wandelen.'  
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