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SOME ALARMING FIGURES 29.4 Million Africans have AIDS 2.4 Million deaths a year in Africa from AIDS 1 Million children under 15 are HIV positive 50% Of the population of many cities are HIV positive 12 Million orphans of AIDS (expected to rise to 43 million by 2010) Every month 200,000 people die in Africa from preventable diseases, the equivalent of a tsunami every month! Unfortunately the amount given to assist them is very low. Ugandan health care workers report that in some villages 40% of newborn babies are HIV positive and 65% of secondary school students are AIDS orphans. Since 1988 ECHO has been active in caring for the orphans of AIDS. Almost twenty years ago, our Founder, Dr. Gammons, built the first AIDS Orphans Village in Kampala, Uganda which he called 'Reach out Village', to care for 250 precious children, who had lost their parents to the AIDS epidemic. Today, the need is even greater. In Uganda alone 1.7 million children are now orphans as a result of AIDS. PLEASE CALL NOW AND DONATE A GENEROUS GIFT TO HELP US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Work on the second floor is now completed.
Some of the first children to live in the orphans village
Dr Gammons friend, Prime Minister and Vice President, Samson Kisseka officially opens the orphans village. |
