Julia

NAME:  Julia

REGION: Central

COURSE: HIV & AIDS Counselling

Out of the training on HIV & AIDS Counselling I decided to start visiting such people in their homes. One day in 2010 our Evangelist told me of a lady in a place called Witemere in Nyeri town who was very sick (was HIV positve). I agreed to go and visit her. We bought some food stuffs from the market and went with the Evangelist and Lay Leaders.

It was such a sad state of things. There were two little girls outside the house looking very frightened, the mother was in bed in a one roomed house. We gave the children bananas to eat too. After she ate, she told us that she had given up and wanted to die. Her son in school is the one who took care of the little ones but that day there was nothing to cook.

I counselled her and she agreed to attend KENWA clinic near her home. The next time i saw her, she had accepted her state adn in due time the bitterness in her lessened and with medication she started living again. She started taking care of her children well.