Strengthening the capacities of the local population

Janssen collaborates with the non-governmental organization (ngo) Sikiliza Leo. Since the start of the project in 2000, it collects more than 60,000 euro to fight HIV/AIDS through a campaign.
Loosely translated from Ki-Swahili Sikiliza Leo means 'listen today': tackling problems today can guarantee a better future. The ngo offers testing and advice services to a few thousand local communities, conducts information campaigns among younger generations, provides shelter for orphans and takes care of a basic infrastructure such as clean water in the villages. In Uganda more than 7% of the population is infected with the HIV virus (17% of the children between 0 and 5 years) and since the eighties more than one and a half million people have died from it. As a result, an estimated 1.7 million Ugandan children have had to face life without their parents. In 2012 about 150,000 new cases of HIV infection were detected and 62% of the adults had access to a treatment, though only 32% of the children.

The program was gradually extended to supporting activities, like the foundation of nursery schools, water provision by digging wells, the promotion of hygiene, assistance of vulnerable children and orphans in their home environment, training of child minders and teachers, setting up and training healthcare teams, etc. Basic provisions which make a big difference for people locally.