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The Canadian Town of Hampton and the Swazi Town of Piggs Peak have recently formed a partnership to address issues of HIV/AIDS.

This website was created by the Hampton partners to introduce this new “twinning” of communities to residents of the Town of Hampton.

An HIV/AIDS epidemic on a scale unknown anywhere else in the world is devastating Swaziland, an African country of about 1 million people, where over 42 percent of the adult population has HIV/AIDS. For Swazis aged between 25 and 29, the figure is 56 percent.

Already, one Swazi in every 15 is a child orphaned by AIDS. There are elderly and sick grandmothers caring for 20 orphaned grandchildren and families being headed by 12-year-old children.

To try to help alleviate the impact of AIDS in Swaziland, Hampton has formed a partnership or “twinning” arrangement with Piggs Peak, a community of about 5,000 people in northern Swaziland.

The partnership has been formed at a number of levels:

• Hampton Town Council — Piggs Peak Town Council
• Hampton High School — Fundukuwela High School
• St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church — Nazarene Church

In Piggs Peak there have been a number of projects identified that will help ease the impact of HIV/AIDS, especially for the orphans and vulnerable children.

A relatively modest financial contribution from Hampton can make a significant positive impact in Piggs Peak. However, this does not need to be a one-sided partnership but, rather, one where we, as Hamptonians, will “get” as much as we “give”. We all have a lot to gain from this relationship.