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Dear friends,
During a recent trip to Uganda while shooting a documentary for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) I met a family headed by, Jjaja, which means grandmother. Over the last 20 years of traveling to Africa I have experienced first hand poverty and great hardship. But this family has endured more than most. Jjaja has lost 10 out of her 11 children and is now struggling to raise her grandchildren.
Her granddaughter Mariam, is a HIV positive orphan, currently a client of AHF at their clinic in Masaka. I filmed inside the house using a Kino light, as the interior was pitch black with absolutely no ventilation. After five minutes I was struggling to breathe. Recently I was made aware that the house is collapsing due to a heavy rainy season.
The staff and volunteers at the Orphan Bracelet Campaign as well as Terri Ford, Senior Director of Global Policy/Advocacy, AHF are determined to build this family a new home. Terry Ford traveled to Uganda in June to oversee the building of a new home for the family, the foundation and wall are up, we are almost there!
Louise Hogarth, Dream Out Loud Productions
Do you have $100** you are willing to donate? $50? $25? All size donations are deeply appreciated Please give whatever you can. The house needs to be built in June!
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** All $100 donations will receive a Special Edition, boxed, Orphan Bracelet set with a personalized 'Thank You' note from Louise Hogarth, founder of Orphan Bracelet Campaign and director of the award winning documentary "Angels in the Dust".
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Background:
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the highest HIV infection and mortality rates are among women, especially in their childbearing years, leading to a tremendous number of orphaned HIV-infected and -affected children. Many grandmothers are raising orphans because of a parent's death from HIV infection
Extended family members, especially grandmothers, provide general orphan care, AIDS care, and care for HIV-affected orphans. If orphans have places to stay, they are most often with grandparents and other elderly relatives in rudimentary village dwellings. Many of these elders are in poor health, recovering from nursing their adult children as they died of AIDS, and suffering from an extreme lack of financial resources. The burden of HIV-affected orphan care is enormously heavy. Services are not being provided adequately to custodial grandparents who are enormously challenged spiritually, socially, emotionally, financially, physically, and mentally.