STOP AIDS in AFRICA

Orphans and Widow Projects

In 1999, Bishop Robert Makona and his wife Janerose (Jane) started the Kitale Orphans and Street Children Project with six children whose parents had died of AIDS. The Children are: Geoffrey, Rose, Edwin, Godffrey, Zachariah, and Jeremiah. The project was started at Nakhosi Village which is 12 miles west of Kitale. Kitale is 250 miles southwest of Nairobi City. The state of poverty of the people is extremely worrying. More on Orphans Project (including how to adopt an orphan)
There are thousands and thousand of widows in the four nations of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and D.R. Congo, who need help to survive longer and care for their children. Many of them have lost their dear husbands to HIV/AIDS. The widows, some of which are elderly, very sick or dying are impoverished and struggling to meet their own needs and the needs of their children. The orphans are losing opportunities for schools, health care, growth and development, nutrition and shelter and mainly their right to a decent and fulfilling human existence. The children when their mothers (widows) are unable to provide because they are elderly, sick or dying they decide to go on the streets to rob people, sniff glue, look for food in the city garbage and go into prostitution. More on Widows Project (including how to adopt a widow)