Kheth'Impilo
KHETH'IMPILO
Choose Life
KHETH'IMPILO
CHAPTER I
One Pair of Shoes
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One choice. One system.

ONE PERSON
CHOSE TO
SHOW UP.

Kheth'Impilo began the way every life saved begins — a single community health worker, a dirt road, and a backpack of supplies. This is the story of what one choice becomes.

Chapter II — The Many

One set of footsteps became thousands.

Every pair of boots on this road is a trained healthcare worker walking toward someone who needs them. "Choose life" isn't our slogan. It's their morning commute.

Chapter III — The Links

Care is a chain. Every link holds.

A nurse's steady hands. A child laughing in a safe space. A supply crate through flood mud. A single number entered into a database that changes how a nation treats addiction. Each one, a link in a lifeline.

Chapter IV — The Network

The road became a system.

From a Woodstock office to a clinic in Lusikisiki to a research desk in Amsterdam to a community in Khayelitsha — the paths connect, and the connection is the cure.

Chapter V — The Living System

No one saves a life alone.

It takes a system — chosen, built, sustained, and trusted. This is Kheth'Impilo.

"Kheth'Impilo is a resilient and impact-driven organisation delivering integrated, community-centred health solutions across South Africa."
Who we are — Kheth'Impilo AIDS Free Living
The Ripple Count

The ripple never stops.

Impact you can audit. Every number below is measured, verified, and still moving.

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Lives impacted
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Focus Areas

The Four Pillars

A system stands on what holds it up. Ours stands on four things we refuse to compromise.

01

Training & Development

We build the people who build the system — clinicians, counsellors and community workers trained to a standard, not to a minimum.

02

Community Systems Support

We strengthen the communities who hold the system — because care that isn't rooted locally doesn't survive locally.

03

Health System Strengthening

We fix the pipes so the water reaches everyone — supply chains, referral pathways, facility support, data flow.

04

Research & Innovation

We measure what works so we never stop improving — and we publish it, because proof belongs to everyone.

Programmes

Each programme, a link.
Each link, a lifeline.

Open any card to see the chain: who delivers it, who it reaches, what it costs, what it proves.

Advanced Clinical CareACC

Advanced Clinical Care

Specialist clinical support for complex HIV and TB cases — steady hands where the stakes are highest.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
OVCYOVCY

Orphans, Vulnerable Children & Youth

Safe spaces, psychosocial support and a path back to childhood for those carrying too much, too young.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
Disaster ResponseDR

Disaster Response

Medical teams and supplies into flood zones and crises — before the news cameras arrive.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
Substance Use Data ManagementSUDM

Substance Use Data Management

One number, entered well, changes how a country treats addiction. We manage the data that makes treatment honest.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
IeDEA-SAIeDEA-SA

IeDEA — Southern Africa

Part of the global research consortium finding the patterns in millions of records that save thousands of lives.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
COPCCOPC

Community-Orientated Primary Care

A grandmother's blood pressure checked in her own kitchen, by someone she trusts. Healthcare, where life happens.

Open the chain ↓Close ↑
Impact Stories

Not charity. Solidarity.

Nutrition support

Nutrition Support

Not just food — dignity

A FoodForward parcel arriving at a door is not a handout. It's the difference between a treatment that works and a treatment taken on an empty stomach. It's received with relief, not pity — because that's how we hand it over.

Accessible family planning

Accessible Family Planning

Not just a clinic visit — a future chosen

A young woman walks out of a clinic with her head high, because the choice she just made about her own life was hers alone. Access is the whole point: when the service is near, free and judgement-free, the future opens.

University of Amsterdam visit

University of Amsterdam Visit

Not just a guest lecture — global validation

When international researchers travel to sit with our teams and study how community-centred care actually works, it confirms what our data already says: what is built here is worth learning from everywhere.

Field Diary

Small moments. Whole systems.

Dawn — packed & ready
One dose, on time
A safe space
Another worker trained
Evidence, rendering
Events

Where the chain gathers.

01DEC

World AIDS Day — Community Walk

Join our teams and communities walking together, Cape Town.

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TBA2026

Annual Stakeholder & Donor Briefing

The year's evidence, presented openly — impact, financials, plans.

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TBA2026

Healthcare Worker Graduation

Celebrating the newest cohort of trained community health workers.

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Contact

The door in Woodstock is open.

6 Melbourne Road, Woodstock, 7915
Cape Town, South Africa
Woodstock, Cape Town 6 Melbourne Road — a short walk from the city, a straight line to every community we serve. Open in Maps →