So we move to my own organisation, UYWEFA, which was set up by a loose collection of people after an HIV/AIDS counselling course. Some of this original group have moved on; of those remaining many have spurts of enthusiasm for projects or activities but it is only really the director, Ronald, who devotes himself to the organisation on a regular basis. One of the most repeated words I have heard since I have been here has been ‘mobilising’ but the hardest part for UYWEFA is to mobilise volunteers to run any activity that is planned. The frustration is that there are plenty of funding streams out there for ‘grassroots’ organisations but the paradox is that most ‘grassroots’ organisations, set up and run by people that come from the community, do not have the capacity to apply
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