August Newsletter

Volunteer work

If anyone is interested in knowing exactly what it is we are doing down here in South Africa, or A(n)zania as it will soon be called (but not before the 2010 world cup), you can click on the picture link to the right which describes our latest Project updates. There is almost too much to do, with almost half of the country earning less then €120 a month. they also say they will have an 'army' of children orphans because of AIDS. In South Africa an estimated 5.5 million people are estimated to have the virus, including about 240,000 children set to rise to 700,000 within the next 10 years.

In the African continent's economic powerhouse, South Africa, 800 to 900 people every day are dying from Aids. The country holds the dubious record of having five million HIV/Aids sufferers: the highest number in the world, an infection rate of 21.5 per cent.
Click here for the link if you haven't done so on the picture yet: http://mikeandliz.googlepages.com/SeptemberNewsletter.pdf