In a country devastated by HIV/AIDS, many children are left without parents and thus they have no place to go but the streets and resort to theft, robbery, drugs and/or prostitution just to survive. Unfortunately, this leads to the cycle repeating itself. The goal of this initiative is aid in breaking that cycle by building, furnishing, and staffing a boarding house for 100 children.
HIV/AIDS Statistics
- People living with AIDS, worldwide: 42 million
- People who have died from AIDS-related diseases: 200 million
- Orphaned due to AIDS: 14 million
- New cases of HIV/AIDS infections daily: 14,000
- Children under 15 with AIDS, daily: 2,000
- Children under 15, dying yearly from AIDS: 15,000
- The virus will kill more people over the next 10 years than all the wars and disasters of the past 50 years.
- The virus has reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 62 years to 47 years.
- In some African countries, up to half of all new mothers will die of AIDS.
Source: Justin Long, Momentum Magazine