Thank you for sponsoring and giving the gift of health. 

You can begin right away sponsoring a widow or child for $40Cdn/month.  If this does not fit your budget, any amount that you can donate will go towards providing the nutrient supplements. 

Just click on the link below and start sponsoring a widow or child.

Your gift will not only change the life of the person you sponsored, but will impact their families and community.  Thank you from the bottom of all our hearts. 

Meet some the Children and Widows who have received Sponsors:

Alex lives in a mud house with a tin roof with his family of six.  Each member of his family has one or two sets of clothing. His family tries to grow a variety of food to keep their family healthy. His family own one water container which makes it difficult to keep boiled water for drinking. The water source is located 1 km from her home. His brothers and sisters have a three km walk each day to and from school. They struggles to stay in school because they often cannot earn enough money to pay for the school fees. They dig in the gardens of their neighbours or hire themselves out to carry sand. 

    

Prudence attends school fulltime. When her father found out he had AIDS he sold the families land and house to pay for his medical bills. Her father then died leaving his family fatherless, landless and homeless. Her neighbours pulled together and built their family a mud and stick house where she lives with her family. She was diagnosed as HIV+ and the doctor is trying to figure out how to manage her HIV. 

Mackeline's father died of AIDS related illnesses in 2002. Mackeline is HIV+. Mackline and her 4 brothers have a 7.5 km walk to school each day and are sent home at least 3 times a term for lack of school fees. Her mother sells sorghum and hires herself to turn soil in her neighbours gardens for $0.60/day. Each member of the family owns one outfit. The family eats on average twice a day generally only starchy vegetables such as plantains, potatoes and other root vegetables. They don't own a water container and have to use a cooking pot to collect water. Mackline suffers from the affects of HIV/AIDS, skin lesions chest problems, malaria, coughing & serious headaches.

Agatha lives in a mud house with a tin roof with her family of six.  Each member of her family has one or two sets of clothing. His family tries to grow a variety of food to keep their family healthy. Her family own one water container which makes it difficult to keep boiled water for drinking. The water source is located 1 km from her home. Her brothers and sisters have a three km walk each day to and from school. They struggles to stay in school because they often cannot earn enough money to pay for the school fees. They dig in the gardens of their neighbours or hire themselves out to carry sand.

Fiona's family has one wooden bed but lacks mattresses, blankets, sheets and only has one mosquito net. Each member has one outfit and they eat 2 meals a day at the most of starch based meals. The family collects water from a river ½ km away in cooking pots as they lack a water container, they admitted to us that they rarely boil the drinking water. Both Tumusiime and Fiona both suffer from headaches and stomach pains.

Kelen is the mother of six children, four who are still living at home. Kelen’s children are more fortunate in their schooling because their mother is often able to pay for most of their school fees from her poultry farm, the children typically get sent home for fees only twice a term. Despite of this the family is lacking in many items including bedding and mosquito nets for the household of five, they often eat only twice a day as the land they own is fairly small, their house is in significant disrepair and Kelen falls sick often with HIV related illnesses and chest complications.

Banyanga Sylivia has 5 children and one grandchild under her care, her husband died in 2002 from AIDS related complications.  She feeds her family two meals a day of starch and not starch vegetables. They are fortunate to have 2 water containers and a water source only ½ km away. The children suffer from malaria quite often as they do not sleep under a mosquito net. 

Sanyo is the youngest widow of a polygamist who left twelve wives HIV+ and over 60 children. Half of the wives have now also died of AIDS. Sanyo has two of her own children that she cares for but is often required to care for the children of her co-wives that have died. Sanyo’s children are often sent away from school and are frequently sick from untreated allergies. Sanyo herself suffers from HIV/AIDS and the side effects of ARVs. Sanyo owns a house in a trading centre but needs to walk 4-5km during the dry season to collect water. Sanyo’s land is small but she feeds her children plantains and beans. The family also lacks clothing and bedding.

Monday is the leader of the first widows group that we partnered with. She is spearheading all of the groups activities in promoting HIV/AIDS awareness. Monday is the mother of four children as well as an orphan that she has taken in. Monday’s husband died in 1999 from AIDS. Knowing her own status as HIV+ last year Monday got all of her children tested and discovered her two youngest children were also HIV+. Monday has a mud house with a tin roof but lacks beds, mattresses, sheets and mosquito nets, for her family of six to sleep she has three blankets.

Resty Tumuhmrwer's husband died in 1995 leaving her with 3 year old twins and an infant. Two of her children live at home, one son has been sent to a grandmother to care for the grandmother. Resty struggles with being sick often and trying to pay school fees for two of her children (one child is sponsored under the Project Uganda pay-it-forward sponsorship program). The children have a 3km walk each way to get to school and are often turned away for lack of fees. The family typically eats twice a day starch and non starchy vegetables. Resty has one water container and collects water from a spring 1 km away.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."         ~  Margaret Mead