It all started in 1992 when 12 people living with HIV from different parts of Zimbabwe came together in Harare to discuss their plight as people living with HIV&AIDS. They decided to go back home and start HIV&AIDS support groups. Auxillia Chimusoro, the first woman in Zimbabwe to publicly disclose her HIV positive status came back home to Rujeko T/ship in Masvingo and in the face of stigma, discrimination, ridicule, poverty and sickness, started the first HIV&AIDS support group in the country and called it Batanai.
Auxillia and other members of Batanai went
on to work very hard facilitating the formation, training and coordination of
support groups in various Districts of Masvingo Province forming the strongest
provincial network of support groups in the country that she coordinated under
what is now the Zimbabwe National Network of People living with HIV&AIDS
(ZNNP+), an organisation that she co-founded with several other people living
with HIV.
In 1996 Batanai was registered as a Private
Voluntary Organisation (PVO Number 16/96). That same year Batanai members
bought a two roomed core house in Rujeko T/ship using profits from their own
small income generating projects and later added 4 more rooms in 1998 with
assistance from the German Development Services and FEPA, a Swiss funding
organisation. Friends of Auxillia Chimusoro in Sheffield, UK and in Germany
chipped in with valuable financial, material and moral support that kept
Batanai afloat in the absence of major programme funders. Another Batanai
friend assisted with computers.
Things went quiet at Batanai when in 2000
the Masvingo Provincial Network of Support Groups which had been named the
Auxillia Chimusoro Masvingo Provincial Network of People living with
HIV&AIDS in honour of Auxillia, was weaned from Batanai to stand on its own
as more support was expected to come from ZNNP+, the mother body. All along
friends of Auxillia in Sheffield and Germany supported Batanai with
small financial and material donations and kept it afloat.
In 2003 efforts were made to revive Batanai
as an organisation. It was then that
Farai Mahaso, Auxillia’s first born son and Peter Marimi teamed up to
revive it with serious programming funded by PSI and FEPA starting in 2007.
Batanai was able to expand its activities as more funding became available.
An external evaluation carried out in 2009
recommended that the name Batanai HIV&AIDS Support Group should be changed
to Batanai HIV&AIDS Service Organisation (BHASO) in order to give the
correct picture of the current status of Batanai as an organisation and
separate it from Batanai support group which continuous to meet at Batanai
House in Rujeko while BHASO operates from offices in the Masvingo CBD and in 4
Districts of Masvingo Province.
Hedwick Mhazo, a strong member of
Batanai HIV & AIDS Support Group
stands beside a poster of the
late Auxillia Chimusoro,
the founder of Batanai.
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