Mission – vision – history

Mission

To care for and support the people of the Umhlabuyalingana District, affected by HIV, poverty and a lack of opportunities.

Vision

To contribute meaningfully to an empowered community that is enabled to do something positive and significant about the HIV/AIDS crisis and associated poverty.   

History

Tholulwazi Uzivikele, Manguzi, Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Tholulwazi Uzivikele is based in Manguzi, KwaNgwanase and operates in the Umhlabuyalingana District, the most remote part of the UMkhanyakude district in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.    

In 1996, the organisation grew out of an appreciation by the Manguzi HIV/AIDS Action team, based with the Manguzi Hospital, that something definitive had to be done at community level to address the impact of HIV and AIDS. In 2002, Tholulwazi Uzivikele was registered and in the early days, the NGO focussed on Orphan Care and Home Based Care.

Ever since, the organisation has expanded its response to the needs of orphans and their caregivers, sick and dying patients and their caregivers, schoolchildren, young adults and other vulnerable people, through its various programmes. Tholulwazi Uzivikele has recognized that it is not enough to respond to the needs from the community only. Prevention in the spread of the disease has therefore become an added organisational objective.