The HEAL (HIV Empowered And Living) Project was started in 1999 and is based in Lusaka, Zambia. We are a group of people living with HIV/AIDS who are working together to help ourselves and others to a better life, including many orphans. We support income generation schemes and a community centre and school for children whose parents have passed away, or who are sick. Our activities include arts and crafts, trading and gardening. Project members undertake AIDS and TB education and awareness activities.

A few years ago Damien Schumann, a well-known South African documentary photographer stayed at the home and took photographs and heard life stories of some of the children, including Floyd. Damien’s exhibition, entitled The Shack, was shown throughout the world in connection with the global fund to stop TB, HIV and Malaria, and has raised a lot of interest. Damien has recently visited the Transit home to make a follow-up film of Floyd. This he has now done, and it is being shown on YouTube and other outlets. This will not only raise the profile of the global fund but also of the Heal Project’s Transit home.

We are very grateful to all our friends in Zambia and overseas for their continued love and support.