Noah's Ark - in South Africa

In July 2007, The Australian AIDS Fund Inc responded to a special appeal from a small non profit agency based in Johannesburg, South Africa, known as the Noah's Ark project. A community based organisation, led by its Founder/Chairperson, Ida Vilakazi, it seeks to provide home-based care to people infected/affected by HIV/AIDS; provide basic skills to disadvantaged groups; run a soup kitchen for disadvantaged children; cook food for hungry primary school children in Soweto;and to accommodate and care for abandoned, abused and needy children.

Our particular focus is on helping with the renovation of a large dilapidated house which had been gifted to the organisation.

The big old house had lost all of its 20 internal and external doors to people searching for firewood!

It also needed some of its ceilings to be repaired and it needed painting inside and out.

Gas and electricity stoves were needed as were basic domestic kitchen units and the house had to be completely re-wired. All these works have now been done and Noah's Ark is now home to 29 little ones aged between one year and and six years old, many with HIV or who are AIDS orphans.

Day care facilities are the next priorities here for the Noah's Ark Project which...one way or another is caring for some 155 children and up to 150 old aged and disadvantaged women, youth and unemployed families.

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