Leave the comforts of South Africa’s cities, enter its rural villages; and you are plunged into a poverty-stricken society weeping over its dying. The crushing defeat of an illiterate woman faced with caring for her terminal husband can hardly be expressed. DFL’s Home Based Care Program transforms this hopeless situation into a time of reconciliation, love and closure, by creating a support-group and empowering people to care for those dying of AIDS.
AIDS patients are sent home to die, because overcrowded hospitals can no longer bear the burden of so many terminal patients. In rural South Africa , the majority illiterate or very poorly educated. Home Based Care centres run by Doctors for Life, train local volunteers how to care for the terminally ill at home and has extended and improved the lives of thousands.
