Keep a Child Alive is a unique organization that creates fundraising initiatives using live concerts, films, television, mobile phones, and the Internet to provide lifesaving medications and care to children and families living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.
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Janet and daughter Lucy at Alive Medical Services
Meet Janet, 36 years old and her daughter, Lucy who is 12 months old, both on AIDS treatment and receive the nutritional program at Alive Medical Services.
They are both newly diagnosed with HIV and mother Janet was referred to Alive Medical Services on the 14th September 2011 and is now in care. Janet, a peasant from the eastern part of Uganda, is a 4 hour drive from Kampala where Alive Medical Services is located to receive her medication. She has 5 children and has difficulty getting food. Her daughter Lucy whom she is carrying is one year old, HIV positive and severely malnourished. Lucy is currently undergoing nutritional rehabilitation. At 11 months she was weighing 3.8 kg.
You can help to continue to feed Mother Janet and Daughter Lucy with Keep a Child Alive’s Feed a Family Campaign which will provide a food parcel for one month for $26. Can you help feed Janet & Lucy for another month?
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