Victoria Beckham visits Soweto
Victoria Beckham is reportedly in South Africa on behalf of the UNAIDS campaign and her friend’s Elton John AIDS Foundation.
The singer turned fashion designer has been named a new UN International Goodwill Ambassador and on Tuesday, October 14.
The former Spice Girl took to Twitter to post some pictures of her meeting. She tweeted a photo of herself holding a baby and spoke about the work EJAF has done in removing HIV Virus from babies in utero from infected mothers.
She tweeted:
In the last 3 years @ejaf have helped over 60,000 mothers give birth to HIV free babies. X vb pic.twitter.com/be70EI9912
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) October 14, 2014
The 40-year-old mother-of-four tweeted another image of her talking to two women in a clinic, writing:
Visiting Nhlanhla in Soweto discussing the protection of babies against HIV x vb pic.twitter.com/4ENBAjBBrz
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) October 14, 2014
Posh also tweeted:
Supporting community workers from @AnovaHealthSA at Bara Hospital x vb pic.twitter.com/865oCswCPD
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) October 14, 2014
She then tweeted a picture of herself doing graffiti on a wall of an education centre in town:
Education + art = Aids free future @UNAIDS x vb pic.twitter.com/3hjvBiv10Z
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) October 12, 2014
She told a press conference at the United Nations building in New York in September that she was ‘honoured’ to be made an ambassador for their UNAIDS campaign.
She had said that she felt it was her duty to something about women’s heath: ‘I am mother and I am a woman. I will do whatever I can to raise awareness. I feel very passionate about this.”
“I recently visited South Africa and was so touched by the women I met and felt inspired. I came home and I knew I had to do something."
“It’s taken me to get to 40 to realise I have a responsibility as a woman and as a mother. For some reason people will listen to me. This is the beginning of an incredible journey for me.”
“I have people mentoring me. I am going back to South Africa in a few weeks and then further afield next year,” she said.
She added: “I would do anything for my children and I think every woman has the right to health and every woman has the right to give their children a healthy future.”
Beckham visited South Africa in February as part of the Born-Free initiative, which tackles the issue of HIV being transmitted from mother to their children.
She hosted an online sale of 600 items from her wardrobe to raise money and awareness for mothers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in August this year.
