Living conditions for orphans, widows and grandmothers in Kenya and Uganda are unthinkable.  They live in extreme poverty. 

They are in desperate need but you can make a difference in their lives.  For just $50 a family can have their basic needs met for an entire month, including food and elementary education for the children.  For just $10 a family could receive a pair of chickens or for $150 a good milk goat, each providing protein for the children and a means of income for the family. 

Share your love with the women in your life

and help the orphans and widows of Kenya and Uganda. 

Make a tax-deductible donation of ten or more dollars and we will send this delightful card to the recipient of your choice.  We encourage you to honor the many women in your life this Mother's Day.

Within each card will be an insert that explains the gift you have given in their honor this Mother's Day will provide health, nutrition and education to orphans as well as basic care to widows and grandmothers. 

Simply make your donation online or by check, being sure to provide the names and addresses of those you wish to honor, and we will take care of the rest.  Please be sure to make your donation as soon as possible to ensure your greetings reach the women in your life in time for Mother's Day!

The card we will send:

Why do you need my support?

UNICEF estimates that both Kenya and Uganda have 2.5 million orphans each.  That is an estimated 5,000,000 children aged 0-17 who have lost one or both parents.  These countries are overwhelmed by children in need of care.  Daily children are orphaned and there are no resources to care for them.

Typically, a grandmother will be in charge of her grandchildren, after their parents have died from AIDS.  It is the ages of 20 to 40 that have been most impacted by the pandemic*, so naturally, it effects those in their reproductive years, as well as those at the height of professional advancement.  (*pandemic - a disease prevalent throughout an entire country or continent, or the whole world.) 

When it is a mother, it is likely that her husband has died from AIDS, which means she will soon follow.  Most of the time, his family takes the property and the woman is left with nothing.  She has exhausted what resources they had to care for him, so when it is her turn, there is nothing left.  When she is gone, her mother takes the children and tries to make do.  Often children have no one to care for them at all.  It is an endless cycle of suffering and poverty.  Since the older children do not have an opportunity to receive an education, the girls often turn to sex for money, and end up pregnant at an early age, and so it goes.

Please, we must do what we can to help these children with their basic needs and to receive an education if we are ever to see real progress in these countries.  Their future is in our hands just as the future of the world is in theirs.  So now is the time to prepare them for the future.  It will come soon enough...