Thare Machi Education

technology bringing knowledge and hope

Helen Taylor Thompson


I wanted to find out why so many women in Africa were getting infected with HIV.

Many have no means of supporting their families so they are resorting to prostitution as their only means of income.

You can't blame them because they live in such poverty and their children have to be fed.

I wanted to find a better way and I knew that education was the key but how could we address such an enormous problem when nobody has succeeded up to now?

This is where modern technology can offer so much and, together with my colleagues, the Thare Machi concept was born.


I do hope that you will take time to see how you can help make a real difference to the lives of women who are trapped by their circumstances in a life of poverty.