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The beginning
Sadly, this was the reality for HIV+ children even 20+ years after the AIDS virus was acknowledged. For others, the situation was even worse – there was no medicine available for children AT ALL. Our friends in Mombasa, Kenya had no medicine to give children when we first met them in 2004. They lost 97% of the children that came to them for care, not because of lack of training, but because of lack of medicine. They washed them, they comforted them, they held them, and they watched them die. -
Helping the issue
This is when we decided we needed to do something about this issue. A board of directors was formed and we were born, becoming a charity in March 2004. We decided to join the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders in their fight for the youngest victims of AIDS and we jumped in with two feet, sourcing medicine and delivering it free of charge to accredited clinics and hospitals in Uganda and Kenya. Soon, our programs grew to include the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. -
A year later
One year, 25 of our children died due to starvation. When that report came to us, we were furious – how can a child die of hunger when we and our own children have too much? We decided that no child should be hungry, so in times of famine and drought, we provide nutritional support (fortified porridge) for the neediest of our children.