ACTIONAID TO SUPPORT PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
	Thaba-Tseka -- The Action Aid-Zimbabwe will hold a two-week training workshop on food security for Action Aid-Lesotho staff and its partners at the function to be held at Mountain Star in Thaba-Tseka from May 11 to 16. In an interview, Action Aid-Lesotho Food Security Coordinator, Mr. Sechaba Mokhameleli said that the workshop, which would include theory and practical, is aimed at providing people living with HIV and AIDS in five earmarked townships in Thaba-Tseka, with knowledge and skills concerning food production. Mr. Mokhameleli said that the workshop is held with the purpose of enhancing implementation of Food Security Project in five identified villages, where involved community members would be provided with vegetable seeds and irrigation equipment. He also mentioned that as part of the workshop, participants would be informed about Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA), which he said is a tool used to explore the challenges, and opportunities that exist amongst the communities’ localities pertaining to food security. He said that participants would be trained on how to apply PVA in terms of accessing people’s vulnerability concerning food security, adding that this tool would be used as the base line for monitoring purposes during PVA practicals with communities in five villages. Participants to attend the workshop include representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Local Government (Community Councils), National AIDS Commission (NAC), GROW, LENEPWA, and DMA while earmarked villages are Thabong, Ponts’eng, Majakaneng, Thabana-Mahlanya and Liphokoaneng. Action Aid is an international Non-Government Organization that was established in 1972 in England. It currently operates in 47 world countries, which include Lesotho. Its mandate is to join forces with partners to fight poverty and injustice. Action Aid opened its office in Lesotho in November, 2005 and it focuses on four programmatic areas of Food security, HIV and AIDS, Governance and Education.
	source: LENA