AIDS has orphaned 1.9 million children in Uganda, and 110,000 of them are HIV-positive themselves.

Today, in the Jinja region, centres such as St Francis Health Care Services and JCRC (the Joint Clinical Research Centre) work together as best they can to get these children antiretrovirals. But there can be serious problems when the childrens’ carers can’t look after them, whether through poverty, sickness or age.

A sick child who can’t eat their fill and whose carer can’t give them their medication regularly is always at risk and urgently needs help.

Local orphanages don’t take in HIV-positive children because they are not set up to give such children the care and special diet they need. That’s why Omoana is seeking funds to build a home for twenty children and for two ‘Mamas’ to look after them. We are going to put the building next to the St Francis Health Care Services care centre who will run it for us. It will cost 92,000 CH francs (£40,000/$80,000) to put the building up and fit it out. A group of young labourers, who are themselves alumni of St Moses orphanage and have already worked for New Planet (a Swiss NGO), will do the building work.

The children will enjoy a balanced diet, go to a good school and get the medical care they need. They will get what they deserve but the world has refused them. If such a facility had existed before, children now dead would not have perished. Thanks to you, to us working together, others will live and have their opportunity to change for the better a world where the death of a child is seen as insignificant.

Here are the arrangements.