THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN EGG - PART 1 : artsINSIDEOUT Short Film 2012

Описание: artsINSIDEOUT is a group of students and working professionals in the performing arts who have been personally affected by HIV/AIDS. The mission of artsINSIDEOUT is to travel to areas of the globe that have been hit hard by the AIDS epidemic and to connect with young people who have been similarly impacted by the epidemic. Through acting, singing, dancing, story telling techniques, and the visual arts artsINSIDEOUT strives to inspire students to unleash their creative energy, empowering them to communicate their own experiences. Through a shared connection of this marginalizing disease, we hope to initiate, for ourselves as well as the students, a process of healing. With the building of community, creativity and consciousness we will reach our ultimate goal -- health, inside and out.

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Nkosi's Haven is a recognized NGO in South Africa that has been in operation since 1999 offering holistic care and support for destitute HIV/AIDS infected mothers, her children, and resulting AIDS orphans (infected or not).

Nkosi's Haven is named after Nkosi Johnson, the young AIDS activist who passed away on International Children's Day on June 1st 2001, who dearly wanted a facility that would care for the mom and her child. He had been separated from his mom because of the HIV diagnosis and he never wanted that to happen to any other child. He also wanted HIV positive people to be cared for without discrimination or prejudice.

At Nkosi's Haven, all of our mothers and children (currently totalling approx. 160) live in total 'freedom' at one of our two locations in Johannesburg. All of our children attend private schools (in the bridging sense), receive all disciplines of therapy (play, remedial, occupational, speech, and hopefully soon art), and we are working on providing sporting lessons as well. Our mothers are encouraged to build their capacity through various activities, during which, if leadership and initiative is shown, an internal position will be offered (such as cook, childcare worker, matron, resident manager etc.) Further, we ask mothers to 'foster' our young resident orphans, hopefully providing for some additional support in substitute for the loss of their own mothers.

Over the past decade we have strived to become a prototype for holistic care for women and children affected by HIV/AIDS. While the energy and passion of our staff and dedicated volunteers has allowed us to achieve this for those residing at Nkosi's Haven in Berea, and at our second site, the Nkosi's Haven Village in Alan Manor, Johannesburg, we are in a position whereby, with additional funding, we will be able to expand our facilities and accommodate more resident women and children. Further, we have recently purchased a piece of fertile farm land just outside of Johannesburg. While we currently do not have the capital to develop this site, we hope to use it not only to grow food to feed an increasing number of residents, but as a site for individual capacity building, and economic empowerment through the sale of surplus crops.

Through all of the work we do, we ensure that our residents learn how to live with AIDS, not die from it. With this objective in mind, we have built a happy and energetic community were our children can develop and become self-confident, mature, and responsible members of their community.