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The AIDS Crisis

AIDS and Children

Thirteen million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and the number is expected to reach 40 million by 2010. The number of AIDS orphans is also growing in Asia and Latin America.

Maua, Kenya AIDS Orphans Project

In the area served by Maua Methodist Hospital in Kenya, 36% of it's population are HIV positive. When one parent develops AIDS, they often use all their resources to pay for medical care for the disease, including selling all their possessions. When the parents die, the family has no resources remaining. As a result, we have a growing number of AIDS Orphans who are usually cared for by their elderly grandmothers who are desperately poor themselves and have little to help their grandchildren. Most of these grandmothers live in tiny shacks with very little additional room to care for the children and no extra funds to adequately feed or clothe them. The AIDS Orphans will not be able to attend school as their grandmothers and other guardians have no money to pay for school fees, uniforms, books, and supplies. Jesus has called us to help those who are less fortunate than us and to share with His Love as our call to mission.

AIDS Orphan Housing

Construction volunteers will be building houses for an AIDS Orphans Village that will be under the guidance of the Kenya Methodist Church and Maua Hospital.