How Students Are Addressing AIDS, Poverty, and Famine in Africa

Cida University is the first virtually free university in South Africa. Located in downtown Johannesburg, it serves young people from previously disadvantage backgrounds, but who are academically deserving. It offers a Bachelor of Business Administration and students can learn skills like bio-intensive farming.

This university has a special program, called the Nelson Mandela extranet. In this program, Students go back to their communities and teach them about HIV/AIDS , bio-intensive farming, and money management. Remembering your ancestors and going back to the community to raise the consciousness level of the society is a fundamental principle of ethical leadership.

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The bio-intensive team consists of more than ten students who are planning to start their own projects in their communities. These projects will give people skills in bio-intensive farming so that communities will be able to feed themselves.

The program will also benefit orphans who lost their parents through HIV/AIDS. Nutritious food organically grown will help the HIV people to boost their immune system. The immune system becomes vulnerable to diseases because of lack of proper diet. “You are what you eat.”

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