Sr Virginia Moorosi - Social Worker: interviewed by David Clark, 2 June 2004.

Sister Virginia Moorosi, of the Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a social worker based in the government hospital of a remote rural area – Qacha’s District, in Lesotho. She describes the problems of local people who are migrant workers in South Africa. They return infected with HIV and other diseases, which are then transmitted to their families. Thousands of people are dying with AIDS and in a study undertaken by Sister Moorosi, some 3,000 orphans were identified. She would like to build a hospice in her community and knows of another similar plan elsewhere in Lesotho:

Sr. Moorosi was born in Lesotho in 1960. She joined her religious order in 1979 having been sponsored by the government of Lesotho to attend the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to study for an Advanced Diploma in Social Work.