**A band of children each with their own particular sadness and their own particular gift come together because of outside forces over which they have no control over. The children survive by sharing the gifts they have with the people they meet in the villages, towns and cities they travel through. Yet each gift has a darker side and as they struggle with this they learn more about themselves, survival and how to make the world a better place.** ----- This is the story of many children in Africa. Vulnerable, yes, victims, no; they are survivors. Many children of Africa live on the edge, in a world beyond the reach of routine adult support or supervision. Yet somehow they craft an existence often outside formal economy and below the radar of public sector institutions. On a daily basis their lives are compromised by food insecurity, the impact of HIV & AIDS, malaria and TB, lack of education and the fear of crime, conflict and war. In situations where these children need more support than ever the traditional institutional and family infrastructures are falling away. Faced with insufficient resources and with traditional family support disappearing, these children are often rotated around between people and institutions. It becomes harder and harder for these children to maintain an equilibrium in their lives. We invite The GLOBAL FUND to subvert the paradigms of service delivery to engender an self-sustaining, holistic and horizontal approach to the causes and consequences of HIV & AIDS, malaria and TB. This is to be considered with the view that afflicted nations become their own heroes and rise from this with independence formed through resilience and the knowledge that 'we can help ourselves'. We would like to paint a FUTURE SCENARIO called SINGAZENZELA. To access existing services and programmes, children often need to have taken a journey to get there. If these children have acquired knowledge of their rights, responsiblities and skills to implement those along their way, how more effective will these programmes be! In the same breath, we ask about those who do not make it to the doors of those service providers. While we strive to but cannot realistically provide sufficiently for those unseen children, let us not underestimate the power of resilience that can be found and nurtured in our vulnerale children. * SingaZenzela in isiXhosa means “we help ourselves” and strives to transform vulnerable children and young people into resilient children and young people who find for themselves ways and means to tackle what life throws at them. * SingaZenzela is an African-led initiative to empower vulnerable children and young people. With little concept of their own rights and responsibilities they naturally depend on their wits to navigate a safe passage to adulthood. * SingaZenzela gives them ways and means to participate better in their own affairs: a way to manage without excluding but equally without having to rely on adults or officials for their safety. * SingaZenzela turns the traditional service-delivery paradigm on its head. It shifts the focus towards “service discovery” – enabling these children to discover life services for themselves and to harness these when required and in ways that are applicable to them. * SingaZenzela offers both public sector and NGO service providers with a strategy that complements and extends more traditional approaches to service roll-out. In brief, SingaZenzela is a child driven real-life treasure hunt, a game, targetting the most vulnerable children and taking them on a journey of self-discovery, skills development and ultimately towards security. The journey is mapped out but ultimatley moulded and directed by the children themselves. Clues, challenges, physical objects and signs found in public spaces direct children to acquire knowledge and know-how essential for survival, whether that be rural or city life. Along with an accessible edu-tainment approach to information, practical tools on the journey will be introduced in an accessible way to children such as; obtaining a birth certificate, a child grant, registering a death, opening a bank account, furthering their education. Blended old and new media technologies will be innovatively used to deliver this information and accessible through multiple channels to the most remote areas. Mastering challenge after challenge, they naturally build resilience, a network of support and most importantly the know-how to improve their situations, discovering ways and means to tackle what life throws at them. SingaZenzela has been envisaged as a pan-African model; a partnership of public sector, NGO and also private sector to deliver a permanent, sustainable, systemic initiative. A micro-pilot has taken place in South Africa involving a number of prominent, credible stakeholders - next is to run a real country pilot. This can begin with developing a handful of components, some already in existence, that gradually grow and knit in with other initiatives - creating pathways to effectively support those children out of sight as they address everyday issues and problems. We would welcome the opportunity to engage the Global Fund on this cutting edge vision.