Sponsor A Mother: A Landmark Education TMLP project

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Sponsor a Mother was designed and created by Landmark Forum Graduate Jo Lawrence as part of her paricipation in the Landmark Education Team Management and Leadership Program. Sponsor a Mother is a project to fund the mobile mothers who go around the Sweetwaters community, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, looking after the parentless children who are affected or infected with HIV and AIDS. The registered charity Love Is All We Need is committed to supporting this endeavour. Today there are in excess of 600 children living in over 200 parentless homes in this one community, which is being devastated by AIDS. The youngest child bringing up its siblings is 8yrs old. As you can imagine the situation is dire, they are alone, with very little food and water, most homes do not have cooking facilities or even electricity, the houses are deteriorating with ill fitting doors, mud walls and no-one to maintain them, and the children are vulnerable and open, not only to the elements but also to rape and robbery. These children are cared for by the Hope Centre* in Pietermaritzburg, which has set up a mobile mother scheme, with 10 mobile mums visiting the children, taking them food, medicine, helping with the washing, school work where appropriate, and visiting twice a day if they have been raped. At present these mobile mums are paid the equivalent of £10 and a box of food per month. Our project is to inject money into this scheme, raising the earnings of the existing 10 mobile mothers, and making it possible for the Hope Centre to recruit more, increasing their wages eventually to the equivalent of £70 per month which is over the minimum wage in South Africa. The Hope Centre screens and trains the mobile mums. Although this will make an immediate difference, we are also running other projects as we recognise the need for a long term solution, not just to minimise the problems, but also to set the children up for life, giving them a sustainable future where they are safe, educ
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