Douglas AIDS Action Group (DAAG) is situated in Douglas in the Siyancuma District, about 200km away from Kimberley. The organization operates in the offices that were donated to them by the municipality hence they work very closely with the local municipality. The aim of this project is to educate youth about HIV/AIDS and to give them information so that they can make informed decisions. Their activities include amongst other things information and educational talks in churches, local prison and schools. They run a special prison programme where they conduct motivational talks for the prisoners that are about to be released to prepare them for the world outside especially on issues around HIV/AIDS.

The AIDS Foundation grant is used to support the training programme.

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The Van Zylsrus Support Care Group operates within the Van Zylsrus Clinic which is about 170km away from Kuruman. This area is very rural, with very high levels of poverty and illiteracy. and the infrastructure is very poor. The rate of HIV/AIDS is very high and the contributing factors are lack of information, poverty & high rate of illiteracy. The aim of the project is to provide palliative care, educational talks, door-to-door campaigns and workshops addressing issues of HIV/AIDS. The organization has taken advantage of the lack of transport in the area and conduct walk and talk campaigns. A member of the project will accompany a group of people from the shop and informally introduce an HIV related topic to them and they will then discuss it and when they are about to reach their destination s/he will then tell them about the project and introduce their work.

The AIDS Foundation grant is used to support home based care and the HIV/AIDS education programme.

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The Tshepo ya sechaba organization runs a palliative acre programme targeting the community in Barkly-West and the surrounding farms. Barkly-West is a town situated 40km away from Kimberly. The aim of the project is to provide palliative care to the terminally ill people and to educate family members as to how to take care of the sick people and their nutritional needs. They also plan to start a nutritional garden because they believe that people do not adhere to the medication because they do not have food.

The AIDS Foundation grant is used to support the palliative care project.

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The Dingleton Community Health Workers Support organization is situated within a mining area about 100km away from Kuruman. The community of this area is multiracial as it consists of Afrikaans speaking people, Tswana, Xhosa, Sotho and Portuguese from Namibia. There is a high rate of HIV/AIDS in the area with the contributing factors being poverty, unemployment, migration and lack of HIV/AIDS information. The project operates within the local clinic and their main focus is palliative care, counseling, assisting orphans and vulnerable children to acquire necessary documents from the local government departments and alleviating poverty by running a soup kitchen.

The AIDS Foundation grant is used to support home based care, counselling and OVC work of the organization.

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