Educating, Nurturing & Empowering Eswatini Orphans Affected By HIV/AIDS
Through long-term, community-led programs, we are creating lasting change for Eswatini children
The Kingdom of eSwatini, Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the world.
HIV related deaths have caused over 120,000 orphans in a tiny country the size of New Jersey. The number of children needing care has exceeded the number of caregivers creating a phenomenon of child-headed households that are particularly alarming with heads of households as young as 12 years old.
These children face daily struggles pertaining to nutrition, education, safety, and healthcare.
Providing orphans with a sustainable food source that is key for their survival.
* We offer lunch support at primary schools.
* We planted avocado and other fruit-bearing trees at child-headed homes.
* We build rain-catchment systems to enable irrigation of subsistence farms at child-headed homes.
* We build chicken coops and stock them with egg laying hens for sustainable nutrition and income generation.
Education is proven to be the most successful way out of poverty.
* We offer educational scholarships for children from the moment they are orphaned through college.
* We built two Children's Libraries at elementary schools with thousands of books, computer labs & toilets
* We provide education supplies for the long term hospital wards, orphanages, and schools
Health & Safety is important since orphans are often victimized and living alone.
* GHFP’s solar energy program brings light to child-headed households to support evening studying and deter predators.
* GHFP's Cell Phone program allows a means to contact our Swazi program coordinator in case of an emergency situation.
* We host pop-up medical clinics in rural communities and deliver much needed medical supplies to existing clinics.
* We pay for treatment for all of our children when they encounter a major medical issue.
Sanitation and hygiene is the easiest way to prevent the spread of communicable disease.
* We build homes and toilets at all of our child-headed homesteads.
* We delivered reusable sanitary pads to girls in rural schools to prevent school absence during their periods.
* We partnered with local Swazi hotels to sanitize and distribute used hotel soaps to orphans in rural communities.
These orphaned and vulnerable children represent the future of their nations but are also the largest “at-risk” population. If HIV/AIDS is to be eradicated, they are the key to any sustainable solution.
Give Hope, Fight Poverty realizes that educating, nurturing, and empowering them will produce a generation of change-agents for a brighter tomorrow.
HIV related deaths have caused over 120,000 orphans in a tiny country the size of New Jersey. The number of children needing care has exceeded the number of caregivers creating a phenomenon of child-headed households that are particularly alarming with heads of households as young as 12 years old.
These children face daily struggles pertaining to nutrition, education, safety, and healthcare.
Providing orphans with a sustainable food source that is key for their survival.
* We offer lunch support at primary schools.
* We planted avocado and other fruit-bearing trees at child-headed homes.
* We build rain-catchment systems to enable irrigation of subsistence farms at child-headed homes.
* We build chicken coops and stock them with egg laying hens for sustainable nutrition and income generation.
Education is proven to be the most successful way out of poverty.
* We offer educational scholarships for children from the moment they are orphaned through college.
* We built two Children's Libraries at elementary schools with thousands of books, computer labs & toilets
* We provide education supplies for the long term hospital wards, orphanages, and schools
Health & Safety is important since orphans are often victimized and living alone.
* GHFP’s solar energy program brings light to child-headed households to support evening studying and deter predators.
* GHFP's Cell Phone program allows a means to contact our Swazi program coordinator in case of an emergency situation.
* We host pop-up medical clinics in rural communities and deliver much needed medical supplies to existing clinics.
* We pay for treatment for all of our children when they encounter a major medical issue.
Sanitation and hygiene is the easiest way to prevent the spread of communicable disease.
* We build homes and toilets at all of our child-headed homesteads.
* We delivered reusable sanitary pads to girls in rural schools to prevent school absence during their periods.
* We partnered with local Swazi hotels to sanitize and distribute used hotel soaps to orphans in rural communities.
These orphaned and vulnerable children represent the future of their nations but are also the largest “at-risk” population. If HIV/AIDS is to be eradicated, they are the key to any sustainable solution.
Give Hope, Fight Poverty realizes that educating, nurturing, and empowering them will produce a generation of change-agents for a brighter tomorrow.