Orphans in Nyanza province (which leads kenya with the rate of HIV/AIDS) face a number of challenges. One of these isthe psychological trauma resulting from the prolonged illnesses of their parents.
Young children as young as 9 - 12 years old are forced to change roles to act as care givers to their parents as they live out the last days of HIV/AIDS. These include their parents facing the humiliation of having to be cleaned of excrement by their young children and the children themselves bearing the burden that is beyond their call of their innocence and youth. These people die after exhausting all the meagre family income leaving the children with nothing to fall back to.
These children need educational support (school levies, school uniforms, school textbooks and exercise books, shoes, clothes, health care and food), psycho social support and support with shelter for those who are left in grass thatched houses exposed to the vagaries of the weather.
Their guardians, foster parents and well wishers who stay with them also need training and support to be able to carry out small businesses that can help them to take care of the children in a sustainable way.
Currently 1,810 orphans are registered with us. Out of these 37 have been confirmed to be HIV positive. We presume they contracted the disease in their innocence as they cared for their parents without any knowledge about hygiene or anything else. These are the people we seek your help to support.
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