Healthcare to HIV/AIDS Infected & Affected Orphans

ARIAS Home of HOPE serves as a short or long stay home to meet the needs of those women and children who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and are abandoned by and from  the society. The home provides physical, emotional and spiritual support to the residents. This home was started in July 2001 and  currently there are a total no of 29 children and 4 women. Since the beginning the home has given shelter to over 300 women & children.  

All the children of the home are enrolled in the school and attend the school regularly. 

HOPE foundation through its CARE Program continually strives to provide all the necessary facilities to those women and children who come in the abode for shelter and also strives hard to give them an environment where they can live with dignity and grow up to be responsible citizens of the society. Along with this it also strives hard to keep the children's self-esteem and moral high to ensure they do not feel dejected and unwanted by the society.

Jayakodi finding a Home

Jayakodi is a smart and bold girl, who came to the home in the month of April 2014. She is 12 years old.
She and her mother were living on the streets and would beg for living. Since she was exposed to a very unhealthy environment, she had picked up bad habits of abusing people around her when she didn't get what she wanted. Quiet often she would pick up fights with the children of the home and would abuse them. It took months for her to change herself and become friends with the other children in the home.
When Jayakodi was 6, she fell very sick and was admitted in the GHTM. She was tested positive for Tuberculosis as well as HIV/AIDS. Her mother, Bhanumathi accompanied her when Jayakodi was admitted in the paediatric ward and started begging right inside the hospital campus. Seeing her do this, the counselor in the hospital counselled her and offered her the job of Sweeper on contract basis in the hospital. After getting discharged from the hospital, Jayakodi would tag along with her mother while her mother was working in the hospital. As a practice, Jayakodi would beg from those who visited the hospital. On one such occasion, Mrs. Mini, HOPE staff who has been appointed to care for the paediatric patients in the Hospital, met with her mother and counseled her and offered her help in getting Jayakodi admitted in Arias Home of HOPE. Bhanumathy decided to admit Jayakodi in ARIAS Home of HOPE where Jayakodi would live a life of dignity and security. Thus Jayakodi came to the home. She was malnourished at the time of admission but by providing nutritional meals and after a lot of care her health has become better. She has gained 5 kgs of weight and is seen getting along with the other children of the home.

Our heartfelt gratitude to all thodr donors who donate to this Program of HOPE foundation in Bringing HOPE Changing the life of not just Jayakodi's but also other women and children who live in the Home.

Links:

• HOPE foundation Little Angels