Provide Medicine to Children Living with AIDS

Summary

This project will provide necessary medication and doctor visits for 130 children living with HIV/AIDS in the impoverished northern region of Togo, West Africa.

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $3,300 was raised for this project.

Received $3,300 from 97 donations from people like:

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Raising a child with HIV/AIDS demands a tremendous amount of resources. Often the families and caretakers of children living with HIV/AIDS suffer from extreme poverty. Many can barely meet their basic needs let alone afford the cost of additional medicine and doctors visits for children living with HIV/AIDS.

Activities

This program will pay for doctors visits and medicine to treat opportunistic infections for children living with HIV/AIDS. It will also provide necessary vitamins and nutritional support.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $3,300

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $3,300.  The original project funding goal was $3,300.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

130 children will stay healthier thereby reducing the financial burden on their families.

Project Message

"Now my role is to tell my friends to tell their friends and relatives to come, to not be afraid, to come to Hope Through Health so that they can get help."
- Hyacinthe, age 12, Participant in Hope Through Health's Program

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Jennifer Schechter,
Volunteer
PO Box 605
Medway, MA 02053
United States
631 721 5917
Email:

Project Sponsor

Jennifer Schechter

Organization

Hope Through Health
PO Box 605
Medway, MA 02053
United States
631 721 5917
http://hthglobal.org

Learn more about Hope Through Health and the project team.


Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Togo and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Togo, read the Human Development Report on Togo or the Wikipedia entry for Togo.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 18, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 18, 2008.