The 4years boy lost both parents with HIV at tender age. He was diagnosed with HIV as per mother to child transmission.
After demise of his parents , he was staying with his maternal uncle. Due to financial constrains, he was not taken care well. He lost weight and started falling sick quite often.
The child welfare committee brought him to our care home at Noida. He was admitted due to HIV orphan status.
The nutrition /medical care was given priority for this boy. The diet chart was put into place covering nutritional needs . The HIV drug adherence Is main part of our efforts in order to have smooth running of his day today life pattern.
The private English medium schooling [ UKG class ]is introduced to take care of his educational side. He is studying well and loves to do extra curriculum activities.
GLOBAL GIVING support will enable him to grow nicely and we will be in a position to maintain living standards as per need.
The 4years boy lost both parents with HIV at tender age. He was diagnosed with HIV as per mother to child transmission.
After demise of his parents , he was staying with his maternal uncle. Due to financial constrains, he was not taken care well. He lost weight and started falling sick quite often.
The child welfare committee brought him to our care home at Noida. He was admitted due to HIV orphan status.
The nutrition /medical care was given priority for this boy. The diet chart was put into place covering nutritional needs . The HIV drug adherence Is main part of our efforts in order to have smooth running of his day today life pattern.
The private English medium schooling [ UKG class ]is introduced to take care of his educational side. He is studying well and loves to do extra curriculum activities.
GLOBAL GIVING support will enable him to grow nicely and we will be in a position to maintain living standards as per need.
Girl At Care Home, Hyderabad
This girl’s life was shattered when 6 years old. She lost both HIV parents at tender age. She was kept with relatives. Her elder sister was not suffering with HIV so relatives could manage with her. But, her ,being the child suffering with HIV had tough time. Relatives started looking for orphanage which can accommodate such children.
She was referred to us and given admission. Her health was on verge of collapse when she got admitted. She was immediately put on ART usage. The food related special care was put on alert. Dietician took extra care to build up her immunity system strongly. The supplementary nutrition kit is base of giving boost to her health care.
The opportunistic infections were addressed with immediate effect. Her physical and mental status has improved within a short duration of admission in care home. She had survived with good note which has encouraged all of us to continue such services covering special [HIV] children in India.
She is put into schooling and finishing this admitted into private college. She has completed Bachelor of Science. Presently, she got seat for “ Bachelor in Education in Hyderabad College “ . Her dream to become a teacher got fulfilled. She is determined to serve the needy by taking teaching profession. This is her first year of degree in education stream. Hopefully ,this makes her best teacher in future.Even, she would like to extend her services to DESIRE Society children as and when need arises.
DESIRE Society has established the way of progression to such children. The helping hands/ support from “ GLOBAL GIVING “is utilized for benefit of children like her at care home level, IDA Bollaram. Hopefully, everyone gets engaged in upbringing of this girl in future too.
SUCCESS STORY OF GIRL CHILD
Girl Child is born with HIV as per mother to child transmission during birth. When she is 4 years old both her parents passed away due to HIV . At that time the responsibility of the child taken care by her maternal uncle .
She stayed with uncle for 2 years. In those two years child used to go the Nutrition camps conducted by the DESIRE Society and used to receive the benefits of the Nutrition Kit which contains high protein diet. After two years the uncle could not take the responsibility of the child as she was having HIV. The outreach worker suggested the organization” DESIRE Society “ which will take care of such children with HIV.
When she was 6 years old when she came to “ DESIRE Society “ .She was in malnutrition stage and underweight with having opportunistic infections. At that time the special care was taken by the organization and provided the quality food with the doctors advise. Quality health care was provided and structured counseling was given to the child. She recovered within one month from the general weakness and year - long medication was given. However, she also started ART Medicine which is life long main medication for such children.
She was admitted in the Sri Sai Vidyakethan School and passed out 10th standard this year with 95 percentage marks. Along with this she was encouraged in all forms of talents such as Art and crafts ,dances & singing.
Her goal is to become a software engineer and get a good position in the society. And she also wanted to be an active member in spreading the awareness against discrimination tagged with HIV children. The GlobalGiving support is making to achieve her goals fulfilled in timely manner.
Situation
Partially blind girl child was found sitting idle at Film Nagar,Sai Baba temple, in Hyderabad.She was identified by the Tv 5 [telegu news channel ] Journalists. The child is infected with HIV+ as both parents turned out to be positive cases. Her mother passed away in the year 2013 with HIV status and lost her father in the year 2016 with the same deadly virus. After knowing about the child situation, TV5 director and his colleagues admitted the girl in DESIRE Society, Institutional care home.
Girl child at DESIRE Society Hyderabad Care Home
Since the child was admitted in the DESIRE Society ,we are rendering its best for the quality and extended life span . At the time of admission ,she was malnourished and badly required medical attention. She was neglected by her family members due to poor socio economic conditions. Her CD4 count was extremely low. She was offered proper counseling, treatment and medicines for opportunistic infections (OIs) by our medical team. She has received round the clock health care and monitoring.
The child was put on ART (Antiretroviral Treatment, a lifesaving drug) as her CD4 count was low. She is also put with a balanced diet as ART has got more side effects. DESIRE Society has put more attention on planned nutritional diet which truly helped this child to continue drug adherence. So this led her to gain physical weight . After these continuous efforts are put by DESIRE, now her health condition is getting stable and heading towards progression.
Consultation for her eye treatment is under process DESIRE Society is working to bring support for the treatment and for the connectivity of the eye hospital in this regard. Extra care by care takers is focused in her case.
The in campus schooling is assigned in her case initially and use to sit with zeal to study further in outside school . Presently, she is attending private English medium school along with other care home inmates. She takes up online session for her respective classes.
The GLOBAL GIVING support can bring in protective shell for such children who are badly in need of extra care / spending required to get smile on their faces.
The boy lost parents with HIV. After demise of his mother, the father could well imagine fate of his child at home.
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