HEART: Health Education Africa Resource Team
HEART Activities in Support of World AIDS Orphans Day
May 7, 2012
PROPS (Parent Rescue OrphanPrevention Strategy)
PROPS is a program to assist critically ill HIV Positive women. This is home-based care consisting of food, shelter and psycho-social, spiritual support, nutrition and health education in preparation of joining WEEP.
WEEP (Women's Empowerment Equality Program)
WEEP is a project designed to save the lives of mothers suffering from advanced stages of AIDS; Operating in impoverished areas, WEEP identifies mothers who have been widowed or abandoned. WEEP commits to providing medical care, nutrition, vitamins, rent assistance and access to ARV drugs; it also assures that their children have school uniform and other necessary resources to attend school. Once physically stable, the mother is taught a trade at a WEEP center where she becomes self-sufficient and breaks through the impoverished cycle to become a role model in their communities.
Currently HEART is expanding the WEEP's reach from the urban centers in Nairobi and Mombasa. HEART is recruiting women in rural areas of Kenya where we have Kids for School (KFS) projects. We have already recruited 40 HIV positive women in Kisii and are recruiting more in Taita Hills this week a perfect fit for World AIDS Orphans Day ...because WEEP is an Orphan Prevention program! Keep Mom alive and caring for her children!
KFS (Kids For School)
This project is aimed at providing a source of health and livelihood to empower the mothers of vulnerable children so they can have access to shelter, nutrition, protection and education.
The Greenhouse project, sponsored by Lift Up Africa and Segal Family Foundation was introduced to provide food security and help generate income.
- Goat Project which is used as an income generating project by kids in primary school in preparation for secondary school education. The goats have since multiplied and some families now have cows.
- Education Solar Lamps for studying, increased health for eyes and not breathing fumes from kerosene
- KFS households without adequate shelter have HEART Teams helping them build homes!
- School fees ....are keeping children in school
- Freedom for Girls has now provided 80,100 school girls with a year supply of sanitary towels!
- Establish strong Community Based Organizations (CBO) with good governance - These CBO's already received development grants from the Kenyan Government and National AIDS Control Council!
PLEASE PRAY FOR:
Funds for more women to join the WEEP project with the end result being a household cared for by mom! Orphan Prevention; Keep mom alive, well, and working to protect her children from being orphaned!
Want to Help?:
- $5 buys a Freedom for Girls packet - a year supply of sanitary towels
- $15 Food for WEEP household for one week
- Want to help William and Gladys with their medical expenses?
- $500 enroll WEEP lady into the program in rural Kenya
- $400 will help us purchase a tire for the HEART Van (need four)
- $1,200 Insurance on van for one year.
Download HEART World AIDS Orphans Day Newsletter (PDF) 
World AIDS Orphans Day (website)
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HEART "Safari Dinner" in Auburn, Calif. - February 26, 2012
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HEART Fundrasing Dinner in Nairobi - December 2, 2011 (PDF)
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HEART has been honored as December 2011 "Charity of the Month"
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WEEP Graduation – October 1, 2011
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HEART Logo in Times Square!
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Chambers of the Heart
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