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Bracelet of Hope Campaign

Coming from Africa and returning to Africa

The red and white bracelets come from the Inina Craft Agency in South Africa, an innovative group of women entrepreneurs. The income from making these bracelets provides critical support for these women, improving their lives and the lives of their children.

Special Projects Manager Claire Alexander, working with a group of enthusiastic students at the University of Guelph, created their own campaign with a commitment to raise $100,000 on campus. They came up with a brilliant idea. They found this cooperative of South African women and asked them to make 5,000 red and white beaded bracelets to sell on campus for a donation of $5 each. It was a stunning success.

The Inina Craft Agency is made up of almost 150 women producers lead by a highly skilled and well-equipped management team. They produce and market a diverse and creative craft product range.

Your purchase of a Bracelet brings income and hope to these amazing women, as well as to tackling HIV/AIDS in Lesotho. THANK YOU

Place of Hope--Tšepong Clinic

Your donation to Bracelet of Hope supports Africa’s Tšepong Clinic. Literally translated from Sesotho, it means "Place of Hope." Thanks to your donations, this amazing place provides life-saving care and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to thousands of HIV/AIDS-infected people in the district of Leribe, Lesotho--a nation in southern Africa.

Working together with local staff and the government of Lesotho, the OHAfrica team provides HIV testing, counselling and antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment to the largest volume of HIV/AIDS patients in Lesotho.

This is hope indeed for a nation where there is one doctor for every 12,000 people and nearly a quarter of the population is infected with HIV or has AIDS.

Please visit www.braceletofhope.ca for more information and to offer your support.