Hands at Work in Africa (UK) has three primary purposes in order to help care for 100,000 orphans and vulnerable children by 2010:
• education and awareness - through working in the UK with churches, schools and organisations
• fund raising - operating throughout Europe to support projects in Africa
• providing experiences and exchange of skills and expertise in Africa for UK volunteers and supporters
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Recent News
Summer Newsletter
Click and scroll through the stories - Christmas in May in Swaziland • Spend two weeks in Africa • UK represented at African Leaders and International Conferences 2008 • British schools help with GoLD future in South Africa • From Halesowen to Africa - college students link with Zambia schools
Give someone something useful this Christmas. Now you can make a difference to the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS - and give it as a present to someone special! • Progress in Nigeria - Local managers report in Nigeria on our Lagos Home Based Care (HBC) Programme, and helping commercial sex workers tackle the daily problems of HIV/AIDS at Isolo. We include some stories of children given new hope by volunteers on our Community Based Organisation (CBO)
Hands at Work in UK Visit
Veronica Caperon, marketing coordinator of the UK team, visited Masoyi, South Africa and the Rubatano project in Central Mozambique in July and returned inspired by the work and commitment she found amongst the Hands at Work volunteers.
“It must have been so depressing - how can we get on top of this terrible problem?” That has been a common response from people when I have explained that I’ve just spent 10 days visiting projects for an HIV/AIDS charity in southern Africa. They then seem taken aback when I reply that I have returned inspired and uplifted by the excellent things I have seen.
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Email UK team in Zambia
Nick Lawrence, Chairman of Hands UK, visited our projects in Zambia in early August. He travelled with his wife, Heather, who was continuing her teacher-training programme with the volunteers from our community schools in the Copperbelt region...
Swaziland for British couple
George and Sheila Green our schools liaison co-ordinators spent time in South Africa and Swaziland where they found a woman who dedicates her life to a thousand orphans in the most difficult circumstances. ..