KwaZuluNatal Society for the Blind

The NGO of my choice is society for the blind in KwaZulu-Natal. I have studied their website carefully and only to find out that their site has no newsletter and articles being published on their site.

The site deals with skills training, children`s service, residential and fundraising. What is amazing is that if you click on this services nothing is shown except blank pages.

What I would prefer to see on their site is their vision, mission and their strategic approach to the crisis.  There are no audio files and pictures and it seems as if no one is updating their website.

The second NGO was the Treatment Action Campaign which seemed much organised than society for the blind.TAC has newsletters and press releases which are on a monthly basis.It has district blogs where people can blog about their experiences.

You can even find audio,  visuals files and pictures on their site which is a sign of activism.

Treatment Action Campaign(TAC)

At first, I was not aware of the importance of the non-governmental organisation until I studied New Media.My first article was about the TAC and their mission as an organisation.

I interviewed Mr. EM Sibiya who is an HIV/AIDS counsellor in Pinetown. He explains about teenage pregnancy which is rife in our communities.The Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) advised people to undergo blood test for HIV infection. Mr. Sibiya said, " We do pre-counselling before taking blood sample and post- counselling after handing over results.

Mother-to-child prevention has been a major issue between the government and the TAC.The Treatment action campaign has to take the government to court before accepting that HIV causes AIDS.The Antiretroviral therapy has been going on a snail pace until the TAC stamp its foot down and said enough is enough.Women has to breast feed their babies for six months to ensure that they live a health lives.

I did not know that a persons` CD4 count has to be less than 200 hundred for the person to access ARVs.

KwaZulu-Natal is the highest Province with more people infected with HIV epidermic the statistics reveals that eight of ten people are infected.