i had a chat with a local grabouw man yesterday and he wanted to know how we were getting on at the 'farm', the conversation went something like this:
him: 'what are you farming up there then'
me: 'oh children'
him: 'ha, ha'
me: 'no really'
me: 'we work with children infected with HIV and AIDS and we have a home for ten of them to stay with us on the farm, called the Village of Hope'
him: 'oh so you wear gloves all day do you'?
him: 'do you get yourself tested for AIDS often'?
such is the limited knowledge of the local population to a situation that is killing and affecting millions of their country men...sad but true
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