CAA

CAA (Catholic Aids Action) was founded in 1998 and was Namibia's first church-based response to HIV/AIDS. Today it has grown to one of the largest and most effective organisations responding to HIV/AIDS in the country, currently operating 14 offices in 9 of the 13 regions, with over 1500 volunteers.

CAA focuses on providing quality home-based care through extensively training community volunteers, the majority of whom are women, and many of whom are HIV positive themselves.

It provides support regardless of religious faith, and trains volunteers from other organizations in delivering support. B4H has an established relationship with CAA, with already one BEC in the village of Okalongo, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bramhall and Woodford in the UK. The Okalongo BEC was established in March 2008 and is one of the most successful BECs in the country, largely due to the commitment of Catholic AIDS Action.

Together with our partner BEN Namibia, B4H Ottawa through the Team Montreal LifeCycle initiative aim to establish a BEC in the village of Ten-Mile, close to the border of Angola to be run by CAA volunteers, providing much needed transport to volunteers and other villagers and generating income for volunteers and village-based development projects.