African AIDS Foundation
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1- Introduction to AAF
- Introduction to African Aids Foundation
- Presented at
- Narellan Community Congorational Church
- 20 February 2011
- By Eddie Ozols
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2- Poverty is the problem.
- Poverty is the problem, but HIV/AIDS makes everything worse.
- Much worse.
- And also more urgent.
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3- Economic Facts P1
- Source 2005 research MSN Money
- The richest 2% of the world's population owns more than half of the world's household wealth.
- Research indicates that assets of just $2,200 per adult place a household in the top half of the world's wealthiest.
- To be among the richest 10% of adults in the world, just $61,000 in assets is needed.
- If you have more than $500,000, you're part of the richest 1%, the United Nations study says. 37 million people now belong in that category.
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4- Economic Facts P2
- Source 2005 research MSN Money
- Half live on less than $2 a day
- But take a moment to think about it, and you'll probably come to realize that the meaning behind these numbers is harrowing. If it takes just a couple of thousand dollars to qualify as rich in this world, imagine what it means to be poor.
- Half the world, nearly 3 billion people, live on less than $2 a day.
- The three richest people in the world - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, investor Warren Buffett and Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim HelĂș -- have more money than the poorest 48 nations combined.
- Relatively developed nations have low thresholds of per person capital. For example, people in India have per capita assets of $1,100. In Indonesia, capital amounts to $1,400 per person.
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5- Educate an African Child and Change the World
- Educate an African Child
- and Change the World.
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6- Living with AIDS
- Living with AIDS
- 22 million people live with HIV in Africa - 67% of all.
- Women mainly grandmothers care for 40-60% of all orphaned children.
- These home based carers who visit sick and orphaned are part of the African AIDS Project in South Africa.
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7- Anti-retroviral drugs
- Anti-retroviral drugs
- Where ARVs are provided, orphan-hood has been greatly reduced.
- Fewer than 1/3 of the people needing anti-retroviral drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa are receiving them.
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8- Lost Children
- Lost Children
- Africa has 12 million children under 18 who lost one or both parents to AIDS
- The numbers keep growing, along with child-headed households -- a term that was practically unknown 10 years ago.
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9- Young women and HIV.
- Young women and HIV
- In sub-Saharan Africa young women account for 6 out of 10 of all people living with HIV.
- The number of young women living with HIV is rising in every region of the world.
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10- Many problems
- Many Problems
- The problems often feel bottomless and overwhelming
- In most cases families and communities do their best to cope with basic food and shelter needs.
- But hope!
- Hope requires something else . .
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11- No magic bullet
- No magic bullet
- There is no magic bullet but educating youth comes pretty close
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12- Education
- Education
- Everywhere you go in Africa, children tell you that the one thing they want above all else is to attend school.
- School offers release from backbreaking labor, the excitement of learning, friendship, companionship and the life-affirming possibility of making a better life.
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13- Education is the most powerful weapon
- Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
- It is also a weapon that the world cannot do without in the fight against AIDS. Education saves lives.
- Nelson Mandela
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14- Every child has a right to education
- Every child has a right to education
- Most governments mandate schooling, at least through the primary grades.
- Many obstacles still prevent the poorest-of-the-poor from attending, especially girls.
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15- Educational Costs
- Educational Costs
- Schools ask the child's family to cover the cost of fees, uniforms, textbooks, school supplies, food and transportation.
- Children who can't pay aren't admitted or get chased away.
- In large families, heads-of-household have to choose amongst their children with the result that orphans - especially girl-orphans - are often kept home to do housework.
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16- Stay in school
- Stay in school
- Growing evidence (UNAIDS) suggests that getting and keeping young people in school, lowers their vulnerability to HIV.
- This is true at the primary level, but especially for the higher grades.
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17- Independence
- Independence
- When young people stay in school through the secondary level, they gain;
- - greater independence,
- - are better equipped to make decisions affecting their sexual lives,
- - feel more positively about their future,
- and have higher income-earning potential.
- All of which help them stay safe from HIV.
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18- Access to education
- Access to education
- means more than just being admitted to a school.
- For poor children affected by HIV, success in school year is much harder, even if they try their best.
- A holistic response that includes the challenge of providing school materials, emotional guidance, school uniforms and food is required.
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19- About HIV infection rates
- About HIV infection rates
- Studies from around the globe (UNAIDS) show that HIV infection rates are at least twice as high among young people who do not finish primary school as those that do.
- Young people who finish secondary school have the best chance to completely break the cycle of poverty, dependence and HIV infection.
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20- What can maximize success?
- What can maximize success?
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21- AAF supports Life Skills
- AAF supports Life Skills Project
- Simple basic education such as it is not OK for your uncle/friend/ neighbour to molest you is a powerful message to the disinherited. Invest in African children just as you would with your own.
- Talk to your friends and neighbors:
- Change is possible Jesus was a change agent
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22- Values Based Life Skills Project
- Values Based Life Skills Project
- 1,509 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)are impacted and supported in the Value Based Life Skills program
- 440 follow ups in October and 264 in November 2010.
- There are 10-12,000 OVC in Okhahlamba where we work.
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23- What can one person do?
- What can one person do?
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24- Partner with African AIDS Foundation to change the world
- Partner with African AIDS Foundation
- Change the world - one person at a time
Regular feedback and financial reports and e-newsletter are available at www.africanaidsfoundation.org.au