Keep A Child Alive
President: Billy Gonyou
Vice President: Kim Fitzpatrick
Secretary: Ingrid Hohn
Treasurer: Kim Lorio
Historian: Katie Mirro
Advisor: Sister Karen Donohue
Websites:
http://www.kcacollege.com
http://www.keepachildalive.org
About The Club: KEEP A CHILD ALIVE is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. With 25 million already dead, the disease continues, wiping out whole 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 by while millions of people die from a treatable disease?
Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment has transformed the lives of people with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health. But less than 5% of Africans with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs.
Mission: Starting a virus to stop a virus.
KEEP A CHILD ALIVE is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. With 25 million already dead, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, threatening economic infrastructure and creating tragic devastation in the family structure. 15.2 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
How much longer will we sit by while millions of people die from a treatable disease?
Anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment has transformed the lives of people with AIDS in the West, returning them from sickness to health. But less than 5% of Africans with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs.
Keep A Child Alive is dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.
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% of its donations to our cause.*
We Focus on the Following Three Areas:
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 5% of children with AIDS have access to these life-saving drugs. When the children are infected 50% die before the age of 2 and 80% die before the age of 5. When the public signs up to become a monthly, or "Life" donor, 100%* of their 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 ARV’s 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. 13 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.
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