Joining the Church around the World – Adventures’ Bases
In 2004, Pilo Vilane was a 14 year-old boy in the most dangerous country on the planet – Swaziland (recently renamed eSwatini). Most of the adults in Nsoko, the community in which he lived, had died or were dying. Swaziland had the highest HIV infection rate in the world and Nsoko had the highest infection rate in Swaziland – close to 80 percent at the time.
One reason for the epidemic was a lack of understanding of how it spread. In 2004, Adventures in Missions partnered with the Swazi Dept. of Education to go into every high school in the nation and train students to...