In Chiradzulu in Malawi lots of children have been orphaned because their parents have died from Aids and they often suffer from HIV themselves. Unwrapped has helped over 2,000 of these children by providing them with food, medication, care and support.

Oxfam provided food for 2,195 orphans and vulnerable children and their carers in Chiradzulu. For those who are chronically sick this was particularly important as food facilitates the uptake of medication.

By training home-based carers and providing them with care kits and bicycle ambulances the carers were able to reach children suffering from HIV who wouldn’t otherwise be able to get to hospital.

Jeffery Ngalande, a CHBC patient from Golden Village, STA Onga, is one of the patients to have benefited from the home-based care:

“This group has been of very great assistance to me. I’ve been bedridden for months and couldn’t eat on my own. But these people visit me almost daily; they give me medication and encouraged me. Now I am feeling much better as you can see, I am even taking part in building a khola for goats.”

This gift also helped form or reorganize youth clubs in 21 villages in Malawi to give these youngsters a real support network, and helped train young people to become youth club managers, enabling them to deal with social problems, reproductive health issues and help respond to the problems associated with HIV in their communities.