Our Work

Touching Tiny Lives

Touching Tiny Lives was founded in response to the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on Lesotho's babies. They work to help the most vulnerable infant children under five years of age by supporting their health, nutrition, development and emotional needs while empowering extended families and others who care for them to provide a better future.

They provide clinical care, subsistence support, and implement HIV transmission prevention programmes; all to improve the lives of the children of Lesotho and the greater international community.

Local staff, assisted by international volunteers provide essential care to severely malnourished, critically ill, or orphaned babies. TTL provides outreach health services, nutritional supplements, medication, and continued social support to children, pregnant women, and caregivers in their village communities.

Their focus of their four programmes to combat the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Lesotho are:

At the hub of TTL's work is their Safehome in Mokhotlong. The home provides shelter, warmth, nutritional care, medical facilities, and nurturing for up to 20 children. The Home has a large playroom, two bedrooms, administrative offices, a visitors room for family members, and a medical room. The kitchen and laundry facilities are always busy, with 5 meal times and mounds of laundry to prepare each day! The nutritional and medical care provided within the safehome are essential for healthy development and fighting disease. The home is entirely staffed by local Basotho women and men, their salaries allowing many of them to care for large families of their own.

Behind the home is a play area for the children; they spend the majority of the day playing outside, and are enjoying the recent arrival of a swingset.

Sentebale supports TTL by providing funding for running costs.

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