Keep a Child Alive was formed in response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. With 25 million people already dead, the disease continues to spread, wiping out societies, threatening economic infrastructure and creating tragic devastation in the family structure. There are currently 12 million AIDS orphans in Africa alone.
How much longer will we sit while millions of people die from a treatable disease?
Mission
Starting a virus to stop a virus. We ask you for a dollar a day. One dollar. Something we waste each day, but to someone in a world not so far away it constitutes another day of precious Life.
Keep a Child Alive gives 100 percent of its donations to our cause.
Treatment
Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment has transformed the lives of people
with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health. But less
than five percent of children with AIDS have access to these
life-saving drugs. When the children are infected 50 percent die before
the age of 2 and 80 percent die before the age of 5. When the public
signs up to become a monthly or life donor, 100 percent of the
monthly donation goes directly to life-saving AIDS drugs and
surrounding care.
Care
Keep a Child Alive provides the medical services needed to make
treatment possible. Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation and
treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for
anti-retroviral treatment to be successful. When necessary, KCA also
provides nutrition for its patients believing that ARVs are much more
effective on a full stomach.
Orphans
Currently 15.2 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents
to AIDS and by 2010 the number is expected to reach 25 million.
Thirteen million of these children are in Sub-Saharan Africa. These
children will face enormous risks in their struggle to stay alive. They
will often be forced into sexual exploitation or enrolled as child
soldiers, this after the terrible trauma of losing your parents in
front of you. Keep a Child Alive builds and sustains orphanages to keep
the most vulnerable children out of harm’s way. Orphanages are a last
resort, but necessary when children have no extended family to turn to
for support.
Contact
Club email: keepachildalive.li@student.sjcny.edu
