Yabonga

Location: Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

A safe environment

Yabonga was founded in 1998 as a nursery school, but all too soon, the staff encountered the first HIV-positive students. Thus, Yabonga grew into a center where people who somehow have come into contact with HIV are helped. The activities range from childcare to training programs for people to become counselors.

Orange Babies supports a unique project within Yabonga: Community Mothers. These women open their homes to children from their own community. These children are orphaned, infected with HIV / AIDS or their parents are too sick to care of them.

The mothers attend a special training program and then take 20 children in their care. Orange Babies provides them with a lunch, dinner, homework and group discussions. The mothers moreover, also maintain contact with the families of the children.