Woo (of Vhutshilo Mountain School) is featured in Ubuntu Magazine!

Woo is 12 and HIV positive. "She is not afraid or ashamed to tell people about it,” says her mother Sue-Anne Cook, who adopted the then two-year-old after her mother and grandmother died.
Woo now goes around to schools spreading the message that being HIV positive is not a death sentence. She is in charge of her own medication; does a lot of cooking, loves sewing and is filled with life.

Woo gives antiretroviral workshops to children in schools and hospitals around Limpopo explaining the importance of taking their medication. She was even flown to Scotland to speak about the crippling effect of the virus.

Read the article in Ubuntu Magazine that features Woo and her mom and the amazing work that they do.

Another 'Magical Evening'

What a way to begin the New Year!

On January 22nd or HFL friends in St John, the US VI, will be holding another fabulous fundraiser at Seaside Villa at Hart Bay to benefit the orphans at the Vhutshilo Mountain School in the Limpopo Province.  This year Johnny Fox, a world-class magician and sward swallower, will entertain the guests.

Last year, funds raised from a similar event allowed HFL to sponsor 7 children at VMS and to help create a farming/gardening program for 12 older ARV Workshop students.  The ARV Workshop members all have the HIV/AIDS virus an benefit from gathering once a month to socialize, learn, participate in planned activities, share problems and to brainstorm solutions.  2012 funds from 'One Magical Evening' allowed the participants to establish their own vegetable gardens that provided food for their families and yielded additional crops to be sold.

This self-sustaining project is one of many we'd like to see 'grow' throughout the Limpopo Province.  Thanks to Cristina Kessler and the kind donors in St John, we saw the first of many self-sustaining projects realized.