Phoning Out Poverty and AIDS through community phone shops in Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique

Through the phone shop IGA, the women have been empowered with entrepreneurship knowledge and skills. Through training offered by VSO- RAISA, the widows and orphans have acquired business skills and received grants to start their community and individual phone shops as well as other IGA expansion projects such as chicken rearing, pig rearing and farming.
From the income generated, the women have become providers for their households, they have been able to attend to their health care and they are now frequenting health services to get better health care for themselves and their family members.
The women are also eating better which leads to them living a healthier lifestyle and there is ART adherence due to the income generated.

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