Walk upright and survive
Since 1997, the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (Germany) supports the Terre des Hommes (Switzerland) project HUMULIZA with a focus on the psychosocial support for AIDS orphans in the district of Kagera, Tanzania. Out of this emerged the orphansÆ organisation Vijana Simana Imara (VSI), translated ôWalk upright and surviveö. Today this self-help organisation has over 500 members between 13 and 18 years old. The AIDS orphans û not HIV infected themselves û are working on a establishing a new social network.