What We Do

Future Projects and Programs

As we move further into 2010, Bracelet of Hope is in discussions with representatives of the Lesotho High Commission office in Ottawa, exploring other projects that we would like to get involved with serving the HIV/AIDS infected and affected people of Lesotho. Projects under consideration include the purchase of a Viral Load Tester to assist in diagnosing issues with HIV+ individuals experiencing difficulties with their first line ARV meds. Our board of directors are also looking at some potential mentoring programs for clinicians in some of the rural primary health care centres and hospitals and HIV/AIDS clinics in Lesotho. And there are several programs being considered that would benefit widows and orphans. In particular sibling headed households (also known as double-orphan families).

Currently Supporting Help Lesotho

Bracelet of Hope plans to continue providing some financial support to the Help Lesotho organization. (www.helplesotho.ca). This Ottawa-based NGO provides a host of assistance services to the people of Lesotho who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Their work includes support of grandmothers who are raising grandchildren alone, leadership and gender training for youth, high school student sponsorships to keep students in school beyond the primary grades, to name just a few.

The Tšepong Clinic

In the past, your donations to Bracelet of Hope has supported OHAfrica’s Tšepong Clinic. Literally translated from Sesotho, it means "Place of Hope." We are excited to report that OHAfrica, after five years of partnership with the Lesotho Ministry of Health, have been so successful in the management of Tšepong that the Lesotho Ministry of Health feel ready to take over and operate the clinic on their own. This is very exciting to hear as it was their joint goal five years ago when they set up the clinic, and here it is happening right on schedule! This amazing place continues to provides life-saving care and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to thousands of HIV/AIDS-infected people in the district of Leribe, Lesotho--a nation in southern Africa.

Tšepong provides HIV testing, counselling and antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment to the largest volume of HIV/AIDS patients in Lesotho.