Empowering Aids Orphans

This is an Abstract for the Project Proposal for Empowering Aids Orphans

HIV/AIDS is neither an abstract reality nor an underestimated event in the history of this age. It is something that is real and we live with it. Almost everyone is either infected or affected by the disease. The toll that this pandemic has had on every one of us cannot in anyway be overemphasized. To say that we are going to have this problem for the next foreseeable future is not a pessimistic view per se, but rather a realistic one, and hence the need for sustainable strategies to deal with the problem.

What do we do then after coming to terms with the reality of the scourge? We cannot manage to sit down and watch while the monster eliminates us one after another. E.A.O. is therefore trying to play an active role in the fight against the disease. The problem is that the pandemic is multifaceted and thus requires a multidimensional approach. There is therefore a need to mobilize the Social, Economic and the Spiritual aspects in order to have a consolidated approach. The project so purposes to incorporate the youth in the fight because they are the most vulnerable group as far as this scourge is concerned and especially so the Aids Orphans.

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has caused a lot of damage to our world and Malawi in particular. To this effect it has generated more than half a million orphans in the country. Statistics show that 70,000 orphans will be generated each year if the current statistics prevail. We cannot therefore overlook this material figure and portion of the country’s population in the development process of the nation.

We believe the philosophy that the concerned party has to be included in any problem solving process and so the youth and Aids orphans, in particular should be instrumental in the fight.

The project aims to empower the orphans Economically, Socially, Spiritually and in the knowledge about AIDS, so that they can also contribute in the fight and development process of the nation as a whole. This is supposed to be a spontaneous and “contagious” cause in that these empowered Orphans will also be challenged to assist in the subsequent empowerment of other orphans and the chain is expected to go on and on and…

So in the wake of all this scramble and noise it seems that all hope is gone and that all is lost. But there is still hope for orphans, even though they may have lost both parents, guardians and relatives, there is still someone who loves and cares about us all. He is a God who loves us all. He does not condemn nor forsake anyone for whatever reason, even sin. God is love and he promises to be there whenever we need him. So who is man to condemn what God, the creator does not condemn. This is the message of hope that we want to give out to all orphans and the affected.

So this is what the project aims to do in contributing to the big picture in the fight against HIV/AIDS. We believe that as the youth we are in the right place and doing the right thing at the right time and for the right cause and to the right people.

Please, it is worth noting that the orphans that we may be working with or assisting may not necessarily be directly affected or their state being caused by HIV/AIDS but still they fall within our brackets of people that are disadvantaged and somewhat in dire need of love and assistance. But our main concentration is on Aids Orphans though.