our vision

To nurture community health and well-being through an HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation programme that is innovative, sustainable and holistic.

nurture

• build on what is already there, the innate potential of the community
• find the seeds of strength and help them grow

health

• providing people with the information and skills needed to improve and maintain good physical health
• helping them access diagnostic services and treatment when they need it
• helping to prevent disease through positive practices and information on aspects such as good nutrition

wellbeing

• having the ability to reach your full potential and access to the services that can help you do that, including preventing HIV infection and re-infection
• taking pride in yourself and your community
• having value, beliefs and attitudes that allow you and others to live freely and happily
• having self-esteem and seeing value in your environment
• being safe from discrimination, violence and the many forms of abuse
• having hope for your future

innovative

• looking at an old problem in a new way
• freeing your mind and being creative
• looking for possibilities that others may have missed
• trusting yourself to know what is right for you and your community, even if it is different to what everyone else is doing
• always ask question - why did that work? why didn't that work? how do people feel about this? Only by asking the right questions do the right answers come along.

sustainable

• building a way of doing and thinking that is bigger than and doesn't rely on one person, or even a few people
• making a positive change that is so wide-spread and deep that it becomes the "new normal"
• having everything we need in our community to achieve our goals so that we don't have to rely on anyone else, including TAI
• having the power to create the future we want including the will to do it and the information and skills needed
• learning how best to address the challenges we face. We may need some help in the beginning, but eventually we will know how to do it ourselves.

holistic

• seeing the individual in their entirety - they are not just numbers. They are multi-faceted, complex and wonderful. They have hopes and fears, dreams and aspirations. They have many motivations, many of them conflicting. They each serve many different roles in their families and communities.
• seeing the HIV epidemic in its entirety - it is not about a virus moving from one person to another. It is about the intellectual, material and social deprivation caused by poverty and inequality. It is about the gender violence within relationships, including the demanding unrecognised work allocated to women. It is about lack of accountability, both personal and institutional. It is about feeling powerless to change your current situation or your future. It is about hopelessness and being without direction.
• seeing that every challenge we face is an opportunity to grow and develop, as individuals and as a society - that HIV is not a cause for hopelessness but should rather serve as our motivation to aspire to something greater!