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Delegations To South Africa

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<h3>Our Delegations</h3>
<p>In 2000, Arm In Arm In Africa made their first mission trip to the Townships and rural areas of South Africa. A relationship was established with the JL Zwane Centre, a Presbyterian community located in the townships, near Cape Town. As our relationship grew, we were able to experience first hand the ongoing disparity, on every level in a nation attempting to recover from the devastation of apartheid. In addition, the South African community was struggling with knowing how to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Arm In Arm In Africa is committed to meet the challenges, knowing that we share the common gift of hope.”</p>
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<h3>Senior Center</h3>
<p>At the Senior Centre in Gugulethu, a Township of 360,000 near Cape Town, older men and women meet several times a week for meals, exercise, field trips, music and fellowship. This seasoned group of older citizens have seen a lifetime of changes in beloved South Africa. AIAIA delegations have been honored to hear their stories of apartheid and their memories of being forcibly relocated to attempt building a life in locations that were considered swamps, with no public utilities. Apartheid laws reduced the black community to be considered no more than 4/5’s of a human being. Once these laws were in place, Bantu education became a legal maneuver of limiting the school aged children to no more than a fourth grade education. Although apartheid officially ended in 1994, the painful effects continue to take their toll.</p>
<blockquote><p>Apartheid laws reduced the black community to be considered no more than 4/5’s of a human being.</p></blockquote>
<p>This was also a time in history that South Africans were experiencing the results of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. With extremely limited government intervention, thousands of individuals became infected with the AIDS virus and died. Our friends at the Senior Centre embraced the responsibility of caring for the ever growing number of orphans left in the wake of HIV/AIDS.</p>
<p>Each year, the AIAIA delegation is honored to visit our friends at the Senior Centre. We share songs, prayer and are gifted to share the realization of the ancient African tradition that “we can only be human together.”</p>
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<h3>Mother Bear</h3>
<p>With each annual trip, Arm In Arm In Africa takes hundreds of Mother Bears to South Africa, as gifts of love and hope for people in hospitals, clinics, daycare facilities and home visits. These bears, hand knit by people all over the US, are from the <a href="http://www.motherbearproject.org">Mother Bear Project</a> and are made for people from emerging nations affected by HIV/AIDS.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Giving them a gift of love in the form of a hand-knit or crocheted bear.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While the bears are a delightful gifts given to the children, we are especially taken with the gratitude shown by the adults at the places we visit.</p>
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<h3>Dress Making</h3>
<p>AIAIA delegation delivers gifts of newborn clothes, hand knit hats and baby blankets from generous donors to Mitchell’s Plains Medical Center near Cape Town and Canzibe Hospital in the Eastern Cape. In these very poor areas, it is common for expectant mothers to arrive at these facilities with nothing to care for their babies.</p>
<blockquote><p>AIAIA is very grateful to the dressmakers who support this cause.</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition, for the past several years, we have distributed beautifully handmade sundresses for 3 and 4 year old girls. These colorful dresses are a welcome gift for the young recipients and their families.</p>
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<h3>The Rainbow School</h3>
<p>The Rainbow School is an after school tutoring program located in the JLZwane Centre in the Township of Gugulethu, South Africa. With education the key to changing the cycle of poverty, 10 dedicated teachers work with 150 children from grades 2-10 for 2 hours Monday through Thursday assisting with homework. Many of the teachers have taught a full school day, providing the current curriculum from main stream schools, other teachers are retired.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Education is the key to changing the cycle of poverty in South Africa.</p></blockquote>
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<div>Students from this program can test into and continue in the Fun Learning for Youth program (FLY) tutoring program for high school students.</div>
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<h3>Walk About</h3>
<p>Our time in Cape Town is spent mainly in the townships which are “shanty” neighborhoods with dirt roads, shared plumbing, precarious electrical wiring and beautiful welcoming residents. Our walk is to connect with our friends, share bracelets, hats, dresses and bears with the children and to view the conditions under which they live.</p>
<p>With each year we see improvement; houses being constructed with cement blocks and small businesses cropping up. We see signs of hope and entrepreneurial spirt with a families selling candy out of a booth in their yard, a woman selling goat’s feet, and another selling hats and bags made from recycled plastic bags.</p>
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<li><strong>Project:</strong> Delegation Community Outreach</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Gugulethu, South Africa, Cape Town</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> Education, Medical & Food Distribution</li>
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Unakho Children’s Home

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<h5>Unakho Children’s Home</h5>
<div>Unakho Children’s home is a small orphanage in the township of Barcelona near Cape Town, South Africa run by compassionate caregivers Reverend Julius, his wife, Irene and staffed by six people. This loving, nurturing environment is home to 32 children ranging in age from 3 to 19, many of whom face physical and emotional challenges due to HIV/AIDS. The staff and children joyfully embrace one another as family. In addition to caring for the children the home offers food to other persons in need.<br />
Unakho social worker, Lorna reports, ” A lot of times the children will share their food with their friends. I take a bite, you take a bite! Unakho is a safe haven for adults and children alike in that area.”</div>
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AIAIA monetarily supports Unakho, enabling them to buy food and supplies. The AIAIA delegation visits this group annually.<br />
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<li><strong><strong>Project: </strong></strong>Unakho Children’s Home</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Township of Barcelona</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> Food Distribution</li>
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FLY: Fun Learning for Youth

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<h3>FLY (Fun Learning for Youth)</h3>
<p>The  FLY (Fun Learning for Youth) program was founded in 2009 when nine young professionals working in successful careers decided to give back to the community by forming a weekly tutoring program for high school students in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa.  The tutors, challenged by poverty and societal norms growing up, knew the value of education in their own lives and chose to make a difference in the lives of high school students.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela</p>
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<h3>AIAIA Assistance</h3>
<p>The FLY program has progressed from 2009 with the original 20 students and 9 tutors to 2017 with 120 students and 50 tutors. In addition, FLY has expanded to a chapter in Johannesburg with 80 students and 20 tutors.  The tutors not only work with students in Math, English and teaching life skills, they also serve as mentors, role models and ultimately life coaches. The impact on lives of the students is life transformative. There is no charge for participating in the program, rather, students must test into the program and agree to attend weekly sessions. The AIAIA monetary support is used for textbooks, school supplies, college application fees, transportation and a meal for the students. <a href="http://www.aiaia.info/fly-fun-learning-youth/">Please visit blog to read the impressive FLY annual newsletter.</a></p>
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<li><strong>Project:</strong> Education</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Gugulethu, South Africa</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> School Supplies</li>
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Health & Wellness

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<p>On the annual trip to South Africa, each of the AIAIA delegates take a 50 pound bag of donated medical supplies to deliver to medical centers with whom AIAIA has an established relationship. Over the counter pain medications, vitamins, exam gloves, bandaids, toothbrushes and toothpaste comprise the majority of donations. These supplies are particularly vital in rural areas where access to medical care is difficult and malnutrition is prevalent. The donations sometimes double the current inventory of these medical facilities.</p>
<p>In 2015,  the delegation delivered medical supplies for a newly formed Wellness center at the JLZwane Centre in Gugulethu. A similar program is being organized in Malungeni, a rural community where AIAIA supplies a quarterly food distribution.</p>
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<li><strong>Project:</strong> Health & Wellness</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Gugulethu</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> Supplies</li>
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Malungeni Food Distribution

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<h3>Malungeni</h3>
<p>Malungeni, a rural area in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is challenged with limited employment opportunities, inadequate transportation and education.</p>
<blockquote><p>The resulting poverty makes it difficult for people to adequately feed their families.</p></blockquote>
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<h3>Food Distribution</h3>
<p>Since 2000 Arm In Arm In Africa has supported Malungeni families with a quarterly food distribution program enabling the people to spend their resources on education, shelter, electricity and clothing. Each quarter the families are personally visited by Olga, a community leader, who checks on their need for food.</p>
<blockquote><p>This is the community’s way of looking after one another, giving to others when they have enough.</p></blockquote>
<p>While everyone in the area is in need, this generous spirit of giving and sharing with members of the community is heart warming.</p>
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<p>AIAIA began in 2000 with 15 families receiving food parcels. As of 2017, thanks to the generosity of Arm In Arm In Africa donors, the number of families receiving food parcels has grown to 160 families.</p>
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<li><strong>Project:</strong> Food Distribution</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Malungeni, South Africa</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> Health and food</li>
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Itipini Food Distribution

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<h3>Itipini</h3>
<p>On the outskirts of the small city of Umtata in central South Africa is a small community of people consisting of the poorest of the poor facing major challenges to living on a daily basis. AIAIA established a relationship with this community, named Itipini, then numbering about 2,000. At that time they were living on a public garbage dump.</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Itipini” translates to dump or tip.</p>
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<h3>Itipini community</h3>
<p>The informal settlement of Itipini is a community that faces major challenges on a daily basis. The men, women, and children of Itipini reside in extremely sub-standard housing, located in an environment that provides little, to no human services.</p>
<blockquote><p>AIAIA established a relationship with this community a number of years ago, at a time in which they were actually living in a public garbage dump.</p></blockquote>
<p>In 2012, the local government forced the community from their shacks and eliminated the only services that were available at that time, a small clinic and a day care. A small remnant of the community were relocated to the current 19 units government housing, where 200 people live in 38 units (two families per unit).</p>
<blockquote><p>High unemployment, crime, insufficient food, lack of sanitation and water are a daily way of life for the former residents of the informal township of Itipini.</p></blockquote>
<p>AIAIA has committed to a quarterly food distribution in this most courageous community.</p>
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<h3>Itipini Program</h3>
<p>The Itipini community could well be considered one of the “poorest among the poor.” AIAIA made our first connection with Itipini when it was located in a local garbage dump. The government officials made a decision to relocate a portion of the community to a similarly distressed and impoverished area. Crime, lack of sanitation and water, and insufficient food are daily challenges.</p>
<blockquote><p>Thirty-eight families currently benefit from the AIAIA quarterly Itipini food distributions.</p></blockquote>
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<h3>Food Parcels</h3>
<p>On a quarterly basis AIAIA delivers 60 food parcels (large bags of rice, mealy meal, flour, sugar, cooking oil and samp) in Itipini, along with a hot meal served on site. It is a joy to see the children running down the path to the food truck with their yellow bowls in hand in which volunteers serve the meal.</p>
<blockquote><p>All food for these two programs is purchased in South Africa, in turn, benefiting the local economy.</p></blockquote>
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<p>The people are grateful for the food purchased with the contributions  of donors to Arm In Arm In Africa.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Project Details</span></p>
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<li><strong>Project:</strong> Food Distribution</li>
<li><strong>Area:</strong> Intipini, South Africa</li>
<li><strong>Assistance:</strong> Health and food</li>
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<h3>Gugulethu</h3>
<p>The Arm In Arm In Africa delegation has been traveling annually to the Townships near Cape Town, South Africa since 2000, partnering with the JLZwane Center, a Presbyterian Community in the Township of Gugulethu, population 360,000.</p>
<p>Over the years, with the leadership of Reverend Spiwo, AIAIA has made many connections with this community, building trust, support and the bond of “Ubuntu.”</p>
<blockquote><p>Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning “humanity to others.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>In this spirit AIAIA began a quarterly food distribution in 2016 to100 senior citizens who are in need of food for extended family members.</p>
<p>Among those who benefit from the food parcels are grandchildren who attend the Rainbow School tutoring program at the JLZwane Centre, and participants in the Fun Learning for Youth (FLY) program, a tutoring program for high school students.</p>
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<p>All food for this program is purchased in South Africa with generous contributions from Arm In Arm In Africa donors.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2em;">Project Details</span></p>
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<li><strong>Area:</strong> Guguletu, South Africa</li>
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We come as a family to make a connection,
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Giving our friends a hand-up

Health Care

Food Distribution

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AIAIA BY THE NUMBERS 2018

Quarterly food parcels

Students received tutoring

Pounds of medical supplies

Of donations distributed

AIAIA is dedicated to changing
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in South Africa

Shared Community Organizing With Our Friends in South Africa

Sacred Journey

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The work we’ve done for
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About AIAIA

We come as a family to make a connection, person to person, arm in arm.

Giving our friends a hand-up

Health Care

Food Distribution

Education

AIAIA BY THE NUMBERS 2018

Quarterly food parcels

Students received tutoring

Pounds of medical supplies

Of donations distributed

AIAIA is dedicated to changing the cycle of poverty and disease in South Africa

Shared Community Organizing With Our Friends in South Africa

Sacred Journey

Time To Vote

Dream Of Justice

Conscious Of The Injustices

The work we’ve done for our friends in South Africa

Gratitude

Delegations To South Africa

Unakho Children’s Home

FLY: Fun Learning for Youth

Health & Wellness

Malungeni Food Distribution

Itipini Food Distribution

Guguletu Food Distribution

Our Videos

Contact Us

Send a Message

Comments

Posts

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We come as a family to make a connection,
person to person, arm in arm.

AIAIA is dedicated to changing
the cycle of poverty and disease
in South Africa

The work we’ve done for
our friends in South Africa