Overview

Project Empower was registered as non-profit organisation in 2001.  We are a South African organisation based in the province of Kwazulu Natal at the Diakonia Centre in Durban (eThekwini Municipality). Our work is focused on strengthening and supporting civil society (both formal and informal organisations of people) responses to HIV and AIDS.

We work with civil society organisations (CSOs) responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities. These include: formal and informal community based organisations (CBOs), faith based organisations (FBOs) and formal non governmental organisations.

Project Empower focuses on helping people to critically assess the impact of HIV and AIDS in their own lives and the network of relationships that support them. Using the learning from this personal exploration we help people to develop contextual responses to the issues they are confronting.

Over the years the Project Empower’s work has evolved into distinct, interrelated programme areas focused on ensuring the sustainability of civil society organisations and developing community and individual resilience to the impact of HIV and AIDS.