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Using the power of collective imagination - a story from Hout Bay

It’s not often that I meet a champion - someone with a great big vision and a great big heart - a bright spark that lights other sparks and makes big fires. Such a person is Bronwen Lankers Byrne, coordinator of the “Imagine Hout Bay” initiative. “Imagine Hout Bay,” as I discovered, is all about [...]

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Helping Children in the Time of HIV and AIDS

When considering the issue of children affected by HIV and AIDS, the focus is often on children who have been orphaned. The Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town explains that children who are not orphans are equally in need of help, and outlines how best to help all children, in their pamphlet Helping Children in the Time of HIV and AIDS . This pamphlet, created by Jo Monson, was funded by the Rockefella Brothers Fund NY, and is reproduced here with permission.

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