Training and Skills Development are an important component of working with HIV and AIDS, since it is a disease, which is exacerbated by poverty. When people have skills, they are more likely to find or create work, which provides an income, and better enables households to deal with poverty. More importantly, it creates a platform upon which AIDS awareness and education can be initiated. Without hope for the future, nor sufficient income to meet the nutritional needs of their families, many rural people do not consider the threat of HIV and AIDS seriously, as it is just one of many issues affecting their lives.

Training and skills development are endemic to the work of the Topsy Foundation. Rural people living around the Topsy Sanctuary have benefited from numerous income-generation projects. These projects are designed to generate income for participants, and to assist the relevant Topsy project in becoming as economically self-sustainable as is possible. Each project is managed as a separate business unit.

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