You are about to experience a virtual visit to the African village of Nyalakot—a very real place, but you won’t find it on most maps.

Nyalakot is located in the Tororo Province of eastern Uganda, in the heart of Africa. It is a rural farming community of about 6,200 people. You’ll have a chance to meet many of them during your visit.

Poverty is endemic here. Average income amounts to about £130 per person for a full year, less than 60pence a day. Visit now!

The birthplace of hope

Uganda straddles the equator in a region of Africa thought to be the birthplace of human kind. It’s also where some of the first cases of AIDS were discovered—and now, where the battle against AIDS is being won.

Plan has been working in the village of Nyalakot since 2000. This is a resilient community—you’ll see it in the people you are about to meet—from the smallest child to the oldest elder.

No question AIDS has taken its toll here. But the incidence of HIV has declined dramatically in the last decade.

• For the first time, infected parents are given the medical care they need to stay alive and raise their children.
• Widows and orphans receive the love and support of an organized community free of the stigma of AIDS.
• The community grows stronger. Classrooms and a clinic are built. Wells are drilled. Farmers learn new and better ways to grow healthier food.

See it for yourself. Nyalakot, like so many Plan communities in Africa and around the world, has much to be proud of—and much to look forward to thanks to support from people like you. Visit now!