The BCCBO AIDS Orphans Project is working to free orphans from the cycle of poverty by providing a high-quality, free education, both formal and informal, to children aged 6-24 who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS in order to counteract pervasive hunger, poverty, and systemic deprivation. Your donation will help provide a student with a uniform, meals, medicine, and supplies for one school year. For your secondary students, your donation will also include transportation to their school.
Hundreds of thousands of families in Central Uganda have lost breadwinners to HIV/AIDS, and are stuck in systemic poverty cycles where children aged 6-24 lack access to healthcare, education, food, and shelter. Your support helps fight poverty by empowering these children, especially girls, through free, quality education, healthcare, and basic needs. A girl student, Jane, says, "We were suffering so much...I am very happy to be in secondary school where I forget about being an orphan.
You and your love help operate three free primary schools for over 516 vulnerable children that provide meals, clothes, medical care, vocational training, community potable water, and a HIV/AIDS prevention program. Your love also provides scholarships to over 301 secondary school students. These scholarships cover their tuition, supplies, transportation, health care, and other services.
The BCCBO Secondary and Vocational School will open to educate your students in 2015. In 2015, the very first class of students from BCCBO will be attending University, and they will graduate in 2018. Starting in 2017, you will be supporting over 1200 students, from young nursery students to passionate university students, on an annual basis. Each year, as students graduate from University, they will be replaced by 98 new nursery students, and the cycle of empowerment will be continuing.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
