The Malezi AIDS Care Awareness Organization (MACAO) is committed to supporting People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), supporting Orphaned or Vulnerable Children (OVC), and supporting other people who have been affected by the HIV/AIDS disease. MACAO works from the belief that all people should be able to love their life and be a part society regardless of age or race. MACAO believes that all people are entitled to the basic rights of access to food, security, education, vocational training, healthcare, shelter, employment, and participation in community development.
MACAO is a humanitarian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working in Loliondo, Ngorongoro District and Arusha region in Tanzania. MACAO Head Office is in Arusha and was established in 2003. Since then MACAO has been working in partnership with the local community, local and national government and other local and international institutions, to improve the lives of pastoralists in the community of Loliondo. MACAO is currently in the process of facilitating an OVC educational project, and is active in educating the local community on HIV/AIDS prevention.
