Latest News from our Programme Teams
76-year-old Nxele is up and about after his stroke
In September last year, Nxele Koko suffered a stroke which left him unable to use his left leg.
“You saved me!” says embattled Head Teacher
Babalwa Mtumtum runs a school of 1200 extremely disadvantaged pupils where the smallest class holds 85 children, an exhausting task of leadership by any standards.
Stuart Barnes Visits Child-headed Families
“The Eastern Cape is possibly the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen, but it is also the saddest,” said Sky TV Presenter and former England rugby star, Stuart Barnes
300 local people to be trained as Community Health Workers
With the first stones of the new Training Centre to be laid in just a few weeks, the building’s first major training project has already been scheduled.
The Donald Woods Foundation's primary focus is on the most severely deprived and isolated areas of South Africa's Eastern Cape where millions survive without piped water, sewage systems, electricity, roads or public transport in parts of the region, unemployment runs at 89%...
“The most effective HIV treatment and care programme in rural South Africa”
- Tricia Sibbons, Co-founder, HIV International














