It infects the innocent, orphans children, and leaves a heavy burden of stigma and discrimination resting on the shoulders of those who have lost everything.
The tragedy of HIV/AIDS in Africa knocks vulnerable children deeper into poverty, where the disease flourishes. We’re here to pick them up together--our staff, volunteers and you.
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Crispin is just three years old, wearing a pink shirt and denim dress, reclining near her grandmother in the shade of a large tree in rural Kenya.
Near Crispin are about a dozen other orphans from her village, in a region where the rate of AIDS is 11 times higher than in the United States.
The virus robbed these children and babies of their parents.
And few will admit it
“Normally here, they will not tell you it is HIV that killed them,” said Winnie Gachuri, a World Concern worker in Kenya.
A World Concern volunteer has called this gathering under the leaves, in part to try and unify the community and help eliminate the stigma of AIDS.
Too often, the stigma prompts people with the virus to refuse to be tested, and leaves those who know they have AIDS to become ostracized.
World Concern is a Christian humanitarian organization that focuses on sustainable development for the poor in Africa, Asia and the Americas. We work in some of the world’s most remote places, offering life, opportunity and hope to 6.5 million people a year in the name of Christ.
Learn more about us at www.worldconcern.org.
