• Community work to support HIV positive people and to encourage HIV testing. Child taking vitamins A women’s support group meets weekly at the centre. They learn about living with HIV, discuss their problems and offer each other emotional and practical support. The centre provides home based care to HIV positive members of the community. Through community work they sensitise the community to the importance of HIV testing. The centre partners with other local organisations such as Salima AIDS Support Organisation and Salima District Hospital to deliver awareness campaigns on issues affecting people with HIV and to conduct voluntary testing and counselling at Nyumba Ya Thanzi. • Provide healthy, balanced and plentiful meals along with a daily vitamin. When anyone tests positive for HIV the first piece of advice from the doctor is to ‘eat healthily and often’ to keep the immune system strong. Unfortunately few Malawians, particularly children, are able to obey their 'doctor's orders' because they can’t afford to buy more or better food. Lack of food speeds up the progression of HIV and makes it impossible to take drugs (ARVs) that fight the virus. • Medicine and travel fund. Many of these children do not have the bus fare to go to the doctor. People who are HIV positive need to visit the doctor frequently because they are prone to common illnesses and may need to collect their monthly supply of ARVs – anti-HIV drugs. Children who could benefit from these free drugs are often unable to do so, simply because they can’t afford the journey to the doctor. • Activities to fight stigma and release stress. There is severe stigma against people with HIV - a phenomenon found all over the world, not just in Malawi. For children who are outcast because of their HIV status life is very difficult. As with most illness, particularly those affecting the immune system, stress is detrimental to people with HIV and can hasten progression of the disease. It is important that these children have a place to have fun as well as people with whom they can share their worries. We are asking you to be one of 180 people to give £10 each month. --click to become a supporter.