FEATURE: Part II Mwemwa Kamwndo-Adams' Story

Mwema at her home in Budiriro 5, Harare, Zimbabawe today

Mwema has bravely agreed to work with ABH post natal in our 'Born HIV FREE Campaign' sharing the importance of knowing your status as a pregnant woman in order to protect your unborn child. 

The following is Mwema’s account of her life in her words;

“I met John when I was 15 years old and at school, a brilliant student at Glen View 1 High School. We fell head over heels in love with each other and at age 16 I finally consented to have sexual relations with him. We eventually started staying together in January 1991 soon after writing my ‘O’ Level exams the previous November.

By age 22 I was a mother of 4; Chipo, Cassam, Assam and Julia. We considered ourselves a happy and blessed family since we had two boys and two girls.  My third child Assam started ailing when he was 1 year old. He was subjected to a multitude of tests but to no avail. Lastly a certain white doctor asked for our consent to test the child for HIV. We agreed and the results came back positive. We were confused and found it hard to believe it was true. Very little information was available about the disease and eventually we decided to ignore the doctor’s prescription and continued to look for a doctor who would give a “better” diagnosis. Meanwhile my child’s health continued to deteriorate and in August 2001 Assam passed away. My eldest daughter Chipo is also HIV positive but has a strong immune system and has survived and is now the mother of one. Cassa, and Julia were born IV negative.

Shortly after that I became seriously ill and was also diagnosed as being HIV Positive. Later I recovered due to the great care I received at Mashambanzou. I grew stronger and became independent again and carried on with my life.

Later I met a man who I developed a relationship with and I fell pregnant some time after that. When I was pregnant he left me. 

When I was 7 months pregnant I met Rudo [founder of the Art of Being Humane Foundation] and she helped me with money to register at the clinic and get onto the ARV Therapy that is supposed to protect my baby from getting HIV from me. In January 2012  I gave birth to not one but two babies...girls...the initial HIV tests for them were negative praise God. There are more tests to be done and they are on medication to cover them while I am breastfeeding them.

Mwema's Girls

The Art of Being Humane helped me with a food hamper and baby clothes after my girls were born and I am grateful to them for that." 

Learn more about our Born HIV FREE Campaign here

Read the first part of Mwema's Story here 

The Art of Being Humane 2nd Annual Bachelor Auction in Pictures

Thank you to all those who came out and supported the bachelor auction this year! 
A special thank you to our sponsors Imba Matombo Group of Hotels' Gecko Gardens, Bina's Chiratidzo and Inonzi Memory Photography. A big thank you also to our partner / main sponsor Chocolate Princess!

The Bachelor Auction in Pictures

The Purpose of the auction

The Art of Being Human Foundation gives a '100% giver's guarantee'. This means that if a donation or pledge is made for a specific cause we give 100% of that donation or pledge to that specific cause. We do not take out any administration fees (operating costs) from'specific donations'. However we do have operating costs that need to be met and therefore we have taken the approach of raising funds specifically for The Art of Being Humane that will cover these costs. We do this in three ways; having annual fundraising activities, inviting companies to pledge support (monitory/goods/services) and through social enterprise initiatives where we create merchandise that we sell. ***The bachelor auction is one of our annual fundraising events.***

The Art of Being Humane 2nd Annual Bachelor Auction Auditions October 27th

If You are a bachelor OR You know a bachelor who would participate in the auction for a good cause and for fun please get in touch with us as follows:

Email: artbeinghumane@gmail.com

Call or whatsapp: +263 77 9993993

Inbox us on: Facebook here

"We are looking for SINGLE Men (not married customarily or legally or living with a woman considered to be a life partner / wife) to come along and participate in this charitable event.

We are not auctioning YOU 

were are auctioning a DATE with you to single ladies in Harare."

The Purpose of the auction

The Art of Being Human Foundation has a '100% giver's guarantee'. This means that if a donation or pledge is made for a specific cause we give 100% of that donation or pledge to that specific cause. We do not take out any administration fees (operating costs) from'specific donations'. However we do have operating costs that need to be met and therefore we have taken the approach of raising funds specifically for The Art of Being Humane that will cover these costs. We do this in three ways; having annual fundraising activities, inviting companies to pledge support (monitory/goods/services) and through social enterprise initiatives where we create merchandise that we sell. 

The bachelor auction is one of our annual fundraising events.

Bachelor Auction Details

For tickets contact the Chocolate Princess Hotline on +263 77 9993993

CAUSE: [Breast & Cirvical Cancer Awareness] Tickled Pink Fridays 2012

Once again we put our efforts and energies into telling as many women as we can reach the importance of breast and cervical cancer screening / testing annually to prevent death from these cancers. 

"If Someone could have told her"

Our tickled pink Fridays this year includes the screening of a short documentary interview of a young Zimbabwean woman named talent living with cervical cancer by ABH founder Rudo Nyangulu. the video shows the answer given by Talent to the questions we are all thinking about the condition, the cost of treatment etc.

Talent being interviewed by ABH's founder Rudo Nyangulu

Join us over the next two months and learn more about breast and cervical cancer, knowledge is power!!!