Shelter

HIV/AIDS affects all aspects of a family's life and as the household becomes more steeped in poverty they are unable to maintain their homes.

During the rainy season particularly, roofs disintegrate and walls collapse and the family is left living in appalling conditions.

In addition, culturally, when the man of the house dies the house is burnt leaving the family with nowhere to go. ACE works with the Child Rights Committees to encourage this tradition to stop and to enable them to identify households who require assistance to build a new house. ACE then provides extremely vulnerable households with new shelter.