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The Valley of a Thousand Hills in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, is at once a place of awesome beauty and abject poverty. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is rife among its people and there exists a great need to reach out to sufferers and families with a message of hope and intervention. |
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The Ikhaya Lobomi Organisation was established in 2000. Zimele and Patience Mavata made a decision to serve the KwaNyuswa community in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, and Ikhaya Lobomi was born. |
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IKHAYA LOBOMI HOME OF LIFE
The Hospice and Care Centre offers free accommodation and medication to patients, and free home-based caring to patients and their families in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, KZN, South Africa.
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The Ikhaya Lobomi Ministry meets the needs of the people in many other ways:
· Supports the hospice financially when funds are low.
· Pays the school fees for children of deceased patients.
· Provides food parcels to the 100-strong volunteer home-based care-givers in the KwaNyuswa community, and pays the school fees for their children.
· Uses money given directly to the Mavata family to build dwellings for volunteers.
· Meets the needs of patients who have been discharged from the Hospice.
· Pays for the burial of patients when funds are not available.
· Is responsible for the satellite care centres in Umgababa (South Coast), Umbumbulu (South Coast) and Umkhizwana (Cato Ridge).
Future plans include the establishment of the children’s village ‘Ikhaya’, meaning ‘Home’, in 2005. Ikhaya will accommodate abused, neglected, orphaned, HIV and other disadvantaged and vulnerable children. The land is already purchased and is situated in close proximity to the Hospice.
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