Healthcare to HIV/AIDS Infected & Affected Orphans

A few days back Satyamoorthy’s was not how he looks today a happy child with a bright smile and  zeal to live.

Satyamoorthy and his brother got orphaned at the age of 6 when they hardly knew how to live  life. Their Aunty took the responsibility of them but within no time due to financial constraints felt the boys a burden and sold one boy to another family and left Satyamoorthy with GYPSY group that lived on the road side.  

This gypsy group used him for doing house hold chores and sometimes even  send him for begging. On day  his aunty saw him begging and was very unhappy and took him back with her. Then she admitted him in school. She would also ask him to do household chores. He was very unhappy and fled from the house. He took shelter in the bus stops or sometimes even slept on the road side.

Childline  NGO working for street children identified him and through CWC admitted him in Divya Home at Trichy.

Here he found many friends to play with, good food, good care and lots of love. He is very happy to stay here. He is enrolled in the school and now studying in class 4. He loves to go to school and his dream is to become a Police Officer. He is very a very active boy of the home and loves drawing and painting.

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Organic fruits and vegetables have acquired a lot of attention and importance in the past few years. We too realize the importance of organic food; hence we came up with a plan of setting up a vegetable garden. After a period of one year we have beautiful vegetable garden with variety of vegetables and fruits growing in the same.

Positive signs were visible on the health of the children because of the intake of vegetables and fruits from their very own garden,. They have gained weight and the sickness rate has dropped down. The CD4 count has increased and stable for the past few months.

Because of the vegetable garden children are getting to eat fresh vegetables and fruits, they are also getting an opportunity to work in the garden which makes them stay close to the nature. They have become more caring and want to water and maintain the garden. They like to spend time plucking the ready to harvest vegetables and fruits and this brings immense joy on their faces. They have also developed a liking for those vegetables that they would not eat earlier.

As mentioned in the title, "Diet cures more than Doctor"stands very true in the case of our children who are infected with HIV/AIDS. Proper balanced diet of organic vegetables, fruits and non-vegetarian food has helped immensely to the children and they are more happy and healthy.