We are in the Sizanani village with a trust running a well runned working centre for disadvantage children and patients suffering from HIV/Aids. Just over an hour outside Johannesburg we join up with the head of the centre who takes us around. To help develop new facilities and maintain existing ones they are in desperate need of funding but seeing how they have transform this place, is an excellently managed site. We visited to key area of the centre, firstly the hospice which catered for HIV patients down to the age of three and secondly the village and the after school centre run by the trust.
Fortunately the trust had come onboard with the Bush's HIV/Aids program that allowed them to have much of the medicine used for HIV/Aids treatment covered. The success of new antiviral has showed promising results for patients that stay rigorously on the program.
The village itself was built up with mainly with rudimental material and parts of it could easily be classified a informal settlements. The after school centre held around 50 children in an area of less than 400 sq feet. Motivation was however not a problem and the children gave us two excellent performances of what they call "60 second theatre".