Stories from the Field
Clement Chewe
Clement is one of the newest additions to our pediatric AIDS care program. He is eighteen months old and both his parents tested positive for HIV when Clement was enrolled in the program in September 2011. Clement suffers from diarrhea and vomiting and is being provided with food,...
Tresha Chiyanka: Tresha is 18 months old and has been part of Power of Love’s Pediatric AIDS program for the past 6 months. Tresha’s mother is also HIV+ and her father left them after Tresha’s birth. Unable to provide for herself and Tresha, Tresha’s mom moved in with Tresha...
Brenda Mwansa: (Age 41) Brenda Mwansa is a single mother with one child and three dependents. In order to make a living, she used to sell fritters and beans, but now with a loan and business training she received from the Power of Love Foundation, she is able to sell peanut butter and used clothes...
Misozi Mbewe
Misozi is 13 years old and was enrolled in Power of Love's program in 2006. She lives with her mother, two sisters and five brothers. Her mother and three of her brothers are HIV positive and are enrolled in Power of Love's program. Misozi's father divorced her mother after learning...
Elina Lungu
Elina Lungu is married with five children. Her husband lost his job more than a year back and since then she has been struggling to keep her children in school as she needs funds to pay for their school supplies. With the help of a loan from the Power of Love Foundation, Elina started a...
Jane Nkole
Jane Nkole is 38 years old, single, and HIV positive. Jane has three children and all of them are in school. Before Janet got a loan from the Power of Love Foundation, she was selling fritters and beans. Once she received the loan she has increased her inventory, and diversified her...
Clera Chimfwembe
Being a 52 year-old widow with seven children, Clera has seen difficult times. Prior to joining the Power of Love micro loans program, she worked sporadically selling vegetables like beans and kapenta, but found that often she had to stop selling because she couldn't earn...
Rose P. Nkandu (Tisungane Group, Matero)
Rose, a 44 year-old widow, has come a long way in the past year. When her husband died in 2003, she had no work experience outside of the home. She found herself unable to feed her children adequately. Since she could not afford to pay for school uniforms,...
Esther Banda (Tingwilizane Group, Chainda)
Esther is grateful that she qualified for Power of Love/Foundation For Women’s micro credit program. Ten years ago, her husband died from AIDS, leaving her impoverished, sick, and the sole caregiver of seven children. Since his death, she had...