Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2009 - Ep 2 Highlights pt 2

Mthebedi Masinga is a bright 10 year old living openly with HIV in Mamelodi outside Pretoria. He takes his ARVs at 7 each morning and evening. But ARVs on their own are not enough. No learner can perform when he or she is hungry. Sometimes Mthebedi only has a single slice of bread before going to school. But at school each morning he and other learners get E-Pap porridge fortified with vitamins and minerals with milk. The porridge is made by local volunteers as part of governments feeding scheme. Teacher Bongiwe Ntloko says: the government gives us soya, maize meal, rice or samp for lunch. 1100 children are receiving food at this Mamelodi primary school.

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