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Project which helps children in dire need of equipment By Francois Rank IT was an unusual meeting of two minds in an even more unusual place which led to the establishment of the Isipho HIV/Aids Project in Paterson. Today the initiativet, which is the third recipient in the 2005 Weekend Post General Motors Kidscare Project, helps young children affected by the disease. This is a far cry from the Grahamstown Prison where the two founding members of the project first met. Project manager David Banesi and administrator Sindiswa Dumana were both inmates at the prison and their lives were meshed when Banesi wrote a play about the struggles of living with HIV/Aids. “I wrote the play and I was also a trained HIV counsellor while in prison,” he remembered. “I met Sindiswa when I ask them to act in my play. She was the leader of the acting group at the time.” The two worked on the producing the play together and when Dumana, who was in prison for assault, was released she and Banesi realised they could initiate similar projects outside the prison. “First we started organising skills training for ex-convicts in Grahamstown,” Banesi said. “We did gardening, cooking, business skills and leather craft.” When he was released Banesi and Dumana moved to Paterson and started the Isipho Project, working with HIV Aids sufferers. Today the two have turned their lives around. They run the project from three tiny municipal buildings in Paterson which include a kitchen, a craft sales point, an office and a creche. Isipho desperately needs eight small tables, 20 children’s chairs, one teacher’s table and chair, shelving and storage, 20 face cloths and toothbrushes, toys, art equipment, role-play equipment, a basic first-aid kit, a large carpet, a computer, sporting equipment, a television and a video machine. GM will also buy goods to the value of R10 000.Contact Harwood Promotions with donations at (041) 5047230/130. Deposits may be made to: Johnnic Communications Eastern Cape, Standard Bank account number 080020496; branch code 050017. Please put the organisation’s name – Isipho – on the deposit slip.
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