This is Winnie. She works very long hours. She started as a volunteer for her organization, but now she gets paid a few dollars each month. She helps families deal with the problem of HIV/AIDS in the Zulu-speaking township of Claremont, in KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa.
Winnie spends her days travelling up and down hills... on foot. She visits with AIDS patients, making sure they recieve their treatments, and their meager government assistance money.
She is able to "help" them, but not very much. Sometimes she is able to bring them some food. Sometimes she even has enough to feed 40 or 50 families for an entire week!!!
Winnie sees more than 200 different families who suffer from the effects of HIV/AIDS each month...on foot...up and down hills... She gets paid just a few dollars each week.
She smiles. She feeds them when she can. She prays for them. She watches them die.
There are others like Winnie, but we need more of them.
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