Helping Orphans Help Themselves

BSLA is starting a child sponsorship program with 5 children who lost both parents due to the effects of HIV/AIDS. The Child sponsorship will aim at connecting Ugandan children with people that care like you. Child sponsorship means the money you give to a child helps to send them to school, helps feed them, buy books and school uniform needed for schooling, and also covers basic medical care.

Children who will be sponsored are those whose parents are not there for them and these are children who are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

How much can it cost to sponsor a child in Uganda?

£15 pounds of that equivalent in other currencies will cover the basic needs of a child including school fees, books, uniform and basic medical care

How you can sponsor a child?

You can pay your monthly support using any of the methods bellow

1. You can send cheques made payable to AWISH Uganda or Slum Doctors programme


2. Or you could even send cash

Wanambisi on a visit to BSLA

Waiswa Ajab takes Wanambisi to his maize field

Maize garden for the widows

The hunger currently experienced by millions across the region increases the likelihood of HIV infection, as people are driven to adopt risky coping strategies in order to survive. These include traveling to search for food and additional sources of income, migrating, engaging in hazardous work, and, most lethally, women exchanging sex for money or food. These actions facilitate the spread of HIV, putting individuals especially women and children at high risk of infection. For those already infected with the virus, malnutrition exhausts the immune system, which makes people more susceptible to malaria, tuberculosis, and other opportunistic diseases, and leads to faster progression from HIV to AIDS. People weakened by HIV/AIDS find it harder to access food, because they are often not strong enough to work or to walk long distances to the market. Successful efforts to improve the food security and livelihoods of families should reduce the probability of HIV infection, slow the progression of HIV to AIDS and increase the resilience of households trying to recover from HIV-related illness and death.

• BSLA provides the farmers (widows) with modern Agronomic extension services & rural based marketing system.


• Provide the women with a grant for purchase of seeds, fertilizer and maize drying crib.


• Increase youth and woman participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  

Slum Doctors Programe donated $5,250 to support 25 AIDS widows in an integrated HIV/AIDS education and maize production project for a period of 18 months or 3 growing seasons. $1,500 was for training, materials, and administrative costs in the first six months. The balance was for grants to the widows of $1,250 for each of 3 seasons.