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GRA is committed to supporting
AIDS orphans in the Lake Victoria region through our partnership
with several non-profit organizations in the area. The need far
outweighs our ability to meet it, but we do our best to respond
to the growing demand. Already, hundreds are being helped by our
combined efforts, and we hope to reach many more as time goes on. One of the organizations funded by GRA is the Ukombosi Nursery School, provides meals, clothes, education and loving attention to nearly 200 children each day. These children spend several hours daily at the facility, and then return to the homes of their guardians. Without Ukombosi's help, most of these children would go to bed with tattered clothes and empty stomachs. The orphans range in ages from 4 to 7 years. Another project funded by GRA is Lea Mtoto (Care of the Child), organized and operated by Foundation HELP, Tanzania. The program provides essential support for about sixty AIDS orphans including:
In addition to direct support, GRA promotes microfinance as a way to increase the incomes of families taking in orphans by allowing them to start or expand micro-enterprises - raising chickens, sewing clothes, repairing bicycles, selling vegetables and the like. To date, we have donated $5,500 to create special funds for cero interest loans to AIDS orphans guardians. |
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Grandmother and orphaned children
