Our criteria for children joining our family
- Children that are 2 years or less in age.
- Parents have died of AIDS or are HIV+ and no longer able to care for their child.
- There is no other relatives who are able to care for the children.
- Where there is relatives who are willing and able to care for an orphan, we seek to empower the family with an appropriate income-generation project, to enable that transition to be easier. We seek to match the project to family’s skills and lifestyle.
Our Approach
Our vision behind our home is to model and provide a family-style environment for children who have been affected by HIV/AIDS. Our goal is to be a family for children who find themselves without parents or relatives to care for them. We confront this massive need by prioritising quality of our care for children over quantity.
HIV and AIDS are different…
Important to note the difference in definition between HIV & AIDS. HIV, an acronym for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus depletes the immune system gradually weakening the persons ability to fight infections, eventually, without treatment, death usually from TB or PCP, a specific type of pneumonia, common to people with AIDS. A HIV+ individual can be a carrier of the virus but can appear quite well, sometimes for years. The difference in terminology is the progression of the disease. An individual with AIDS is a HIV+ person with advanced disease, so the individual is not well and usually has one or more life threatening illnesses, due to the depletion of their immune system.