World Vision Africa - Relief | Development | Advocacy

World AIDS Day is commemorated on 1 December.
  

Hope, in times of adversity, keeps many people in Africa going. Thousands of ordinary people on the continent sacrifice their meagre resources to make the world a better place in the face of HIV and AIDS. 

Sylvia is a mother of four children whom, she says, she “so dearly loves and would give my life up for.” The three younger children all have special needs.

One is 10-year-old Nadia who is HIV positive, another is an eight-year-old girl who was partially deaf when Sylvia took her in, while the two-year-old girl is partially paralysed. Only the oldest, who is 19 years old, is her biological daughter.

“All I want for these children is for them to be happy. I do not care what their conditions or circumstances are, as long as I can make a difference in their lives,” Sylvia says.

World Vision has published a book titled Champions of Hope, which highlights Sylvia’s remarkable story and other outstanding stories of many otherwise unheralded heroes and heroines.

Please click here to download the book and read the stories.

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