Thank you to our many donors who helped us raise over $1 million since 2006

   

VG4A

​Who we are

What we do
Victoria Grandmothers for Africa is one of over 250 Canadian groups working to raise funds and awareness for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. This Campaign supports the work of African grandmothers caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Since Victoria Grandmothers for Africa is a large group, we encourage members to join a working group that interests them.   These smaller groups enable members to get to know one another and make friends while engaging in the important work of the Grandmothers Campaign.
  
For more information, please contact the coordinator
​Marianne Bartram, marianneanddavid@shaw.ca 

​The Christmas Craft Fair season is fast approaching.  Our ​Sales and Crafts team will participate in sales in retirement homes as well as being part of the annual VIDEA Fair Trade sale on November 24th (details on the poster below). 
Mark your calendars and stop by to enjoy the wide variety of items that our group has to offer.

FLASH MOB 2018

Mayfair Shoppers were surprised by a Granny Flash Mob on Sunday November 18 as VG4A members danced to show the Power of Love in combatting AIDS
(more photos here)

Cycle Tours 2018 -- a phenomenal success!
Riders at the end of the 50 km and 275 km tours gather with Mayor Helps on the Johnson St. Bridge
Photo Credit - Dennis Robinson

Welcome Home Celebration, Sept. 9, 2018
Click to see the slideshow below
Photo Credit - Dennis Robinson

Photos of 275 km tour, 2018
Photos of 50 km Tour, 2018
​Photos of Welcome Home, 2018
Sales & Crafts and Education were in Market Sq. Aug 18 for Global Village's 30th anniversary
A new product we sell, a reusable shopping bag, does away with plastic

Summer Social 2018
at the lovely home of Anne Anderson (below right)
-- time to celebrate and socialise!
Check out the blog for more photos from Rose Mary and Daphne

We made it!
2018 Virtual Stride Walk
February 14 until April 22, 2018

​For more information, check out our EVENT page here

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April 22, 2018 marked the end of the Virtual Stride Walk.  We covered 20,600 km as we walked from Gaborone, Botswana, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and back again.  Today we celebrated our achievement and remembered the African grandmothers who walk each day as they carry water or go to market or cultivate the fields or do all the myriad jobs that fill their lives as they care for orphaned grandchildren.  We salute you!
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Shopping for Christmas?   Consider purchasing this prize winning book
  2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award!

“If you’re looking for a book that renews your faith in humanity, this is it.” 
— Atlantic Books Today 

Winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were announced on Thursday, May 10, at a gala held at the Halifax Central Library in Nova Scotia. In recognition for its excellence in publishing, from concept and editorial through to book sales, Powered by Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS in Africa won the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award!

We are thrilled that the new book about the Grandmothers' Movement  "Powered by Love" reached #1 on CBC's Canadian Best Seller list for non-fiction in November 2017
The discussion at UVic on Nov 6, 2017 moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Vibert was "a triumph"  "excellent" "so moving". 
Two very successful book launches were also held, one in Sidney and one in Victoria.
Watch a video about the book here
Download a book club guide here
Idah Mukuka engages an audience at UVic as she tells a story from Powered by Love 

“This is where the heart of feminism beats for me.”
— Annie Lennox