Itipini Community Project

Jenny’s focus is the Itipini Community Project. Itipini is a squatter’s camp grown up on an abandoned municipal dump outside of Mthatha. About 3,000 people live there.

AMM provides a primary health care clinic, a pre-school and a feeding program. An after school program has been added. A dramatic decrease in the infant mortality has been achieved. A group of the women have organized into a craft co-op to earn money for their families. They gather materials locally and receive donations from sources in South Africa and the U.S.

Four donated land/sea containers have been employed as spaces for the clinic, the craft group, a pre-school program, and as a hospice center for the terminally ill. At the hospice container, residents can find counseling about AIDS and other serious diseases, family planning assistance and information on other health issues.

Volunteers: ( a list here of who comes and what they do)