Adjumani Palliative Care Fund

For now 3  months, the hope of living longer with HIV/AIDs and becoming doctors specifically padeatricians for Daniel and Norah have been revived. We your generosity, we have been paying a motor cycle to take Daniel and Norah to hospital to pick their ARV drugs that are given on monthly basis. We also provided them with all school requirements and tuition fees. We made arrangements with the school that Daniel and Norah together with 4 other children who are living with HIV/AIDs and studying in the same school be provided with nutriotious porridge each morning before they take their medication. We provided soya flour mixed with silver fish, peanut paste and millet. They are now enjoying their studies and copying up well with their ARV medication.

Daniel and Norah of ages 12 and 14 years respectievly lost both of their parents to HIV/AIDs and are also both living with HIV/AIDs. The two kids do not know where the their father comes from since the mother brought them to her home while still very young and when the mother died they continued to stay with the grandmother. Unfortunately, the grandmother does not love them and has often called them LIVING CORPSES who dont deserve any care because they will soon die like their parents. The grandmother denies these kids food, soap and sometimes makes them sleep outside on the verandah. Infact currently, our organization is working with the local leadership because we would like to rent for them a small grass thatched house where they can peacefully stay. Daniel and Norah are severely traumatised because opf the stigma to the extent they had abandoned walking to hospital to pick drugs or take their ARV medication because they wanted to die. 

We cannot thank you enough for restoring hope to Daniel and Norah. There are more than 25 other Daniels and Norahs in Katakwi district where we recently opened our new office. Sharing about our project with your network will go along way to help spread the word out there and help orphaned children living with HIV/AIDs live healthy lives.

For the last three months, our counselor has been walking a journey of healing with Gladys, a south sudanese refugee single mother of three children who has been living with HIV/AIDs for the last 10 years. Despite counseling from the hospital and being enrolled in ARVs, Gladys has since been living in denial, a situation that caused alot of stress on her children too since she often refused to take ARVs questioning why she has to keep taking drugs when she is fine. The children had to constantly beg her to take the medication.

For our counseling jpourney with Gladys, its been three months of constant home visits, creating an environment for her to talk and share her experiences. The journey has not been easy but with prayers, Gladys was able to reach to terms with her sitaution. While this initially brough back the memories of the rape back in south sudan and how that ended her hopes of raising her three children aged  10, 15 and 17 years, continued talking and enabling Gladys share the pain has eventually yielded results. 

According to one of her daughters ''Mummy now takes her ARVs on her own even without being reminded. We no lonmger have to beg her to take her medicines. We thank God for this change. Atleast we are now less stressed because we know that she will now be able to live longer when she adheres to her medication'.

This testimony of Gladys would not be possible without your love, compassion and sacrifices. Thank you for the kind donations taht is enabling us reach many more women living with HIV/AIDs and who have lost hope in life.

We are forever grateful for you generosity

David + Vicky