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Comic Relief has been one of our key donors and partners since 1996. It recently granted us nearly £1.5 million for a three-year programme to support older carers of people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children in Africa. We are working with partners in ten countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Comic Relief is supporting three more HelpAge International projects in Africa:
- work with older people in Tanzania to raise awareness among government and civil-society organisations of what older people need to improve their lives
- training older women in Tanzania as para-legal advisors, who advise other women in their communites about their inheritance rights, and help them to secure assets, such as property left to them by their late husbands
- education and practical support to communities in Sukumuland, Tanzania, to challenge attitudes that lead to older women being accused of witchcraft and being blamed for HIV/AIDS, family conflict and inheritance disputes. These attitudes can result in abuse, impoverishment and the death of many women.
