Australian nurses to volunteer in South Africa
18/03/2010
A couple of Australian nurses are set to travel to South Africa to help out in a country battling against HIV and AIDS.
Cathy Onion and Sarah Patterson, workers at the Great War Memorial site of the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, are to be part of a group going to spend three weeks in the African nation in May, Perth EMC reports.
The pair are joining a team from the organisation Afri-Can and are to aid in two projects - one at St Martin's near Johannesburg and one at Ebenezer near Durban.
Orphaned and vulnerable children from four to 17 years old are looked after at the former, where more than 300 youngsters participate in soccer, volleyball and dance.
The latter feeds 62 infants aged two to five.
Earlier in the month, the country's health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi proposed a move to scale up HIV and AIDS prevention measures.
