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LIKULEZI
The Likulezi Project is a grassroots community development organization in Phalombe, Malawi. Started in 1990. This group initially provided HIV/ AIDS education to the community and palliative home care to those dying of AIDS. The Project has expanded since then to help provide drinking water wells, agricultural inputs and orphan sponsorship, with an added focus on developing employment opportunities. It is a charity registered in Ireland.
There are 5 components in the project:
- Aids Education - each of the Groups within the Project has an AIDS education programme using drama, dance, drumming, choir and puppet shows in the villages and schools within their own catchment area (see Group sponsorship for more information on Groups activities)
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Home Based Care -each of the village volunteers cares for 3 patients within the catchment area of their Group (see Sick Household sponsorship for more information)
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Orphan Support - Orphans whose parents have died from AIDS are supported within their extended family households (see Orphan sponsorship for more information)
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Community Development - the community development engaged in by the Project includes: water and sanitation, literacy schools, library facilities, primary schools football and netball leagues, sewing circle, choir competition, art workshops.
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Community Tourism- it is hoped with this component to assist in funding certain areas of the Project. The Training centre is ideally situated at the foot of the majestic Mulanje mountain (see Community Tourism for more information)
The “Warm Heart of Africa” is an apt name for Malawi. For it is the people who are Malawi. It is the amazing resilience of people hit with all sorts of tragedies – poverty, disease and the Big One “AIDS” and yet the place remains a place of laughter. It is everywhere and it comes to you from across the plains and through the gaps in the mountains and is in the air you breathe, seeping through all its tragedies.
Gemma Brugha
RN, Advisor to the Likulezi Project Support Team
