Support FRIENDSHIP BETHANY CHILDRENS HOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA Ten years after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa and weeks after the re-sounding re-election of the ANC Government, huge challenges remain, including the devasting impact of HIV/AIDS, the orphans that are left behind, poverty, unemployment, squatter camps and rampant crime. Once again the partnership of concerned people in Europe is indeed to enter a new struggle against AIDS and with traditional European generosity and determination, to never give up until we overcome, as we did in the fight against Apartheid. Our ministry with children infected and affected with the HIV/AIDS pandemic continues under the leadership of Neela Govender who has served the Lord in ministry for the past thirty years. View the video. CHILDREN AT OUR HOME IN JOHANNESBURG. HOPE FOR AN ANSWER IF WE ACT NOW! Although in the poorest households of South Africa, HIV infected children don't usually survive beyond the fifth birthday, in richer parts of the world they are living up to 12-15 years before the onset of full blown AIDS. The difference is in the medication, TLC and nutrition which gives protection from infectious diseases. We are geared to make a difference in this respect so that the lives of children can be normal like other children.We are also believing God for their healing. Our hope is that there can be a cure within the next five years but in the meantime, we must do everything to keep the children alive and well enough to live normally. Keep a child alive until the cure for AIDS is found! JESUS SAID: LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME AND FORBID THEM NOT. FRIENDSHIP SHEKINAH AIDS CARE CENTRE NEEDS YOUR HELP! Neela Govender, Principal of Friendship Shekinah Care Centre explains how it is: "Most of the time, children with HIV are just like other orphans, rather lonely and fragile when they first come to us. They desparately need to bond with a new father or mother and with new brothers and sisters at the Home. Once they bond, they start to blossom and grow up like normal children, except for the fatal flaw in their immune systems.This means that we must provide special medication and nutritional supplements for them,  24/7 nursing care, oxygen supply and various protected items of furniture as well as toys and activities that minimize injury and exposure to infection" The cost to provide this special TLC, medication and protective environment averages $140 per month per child. This compares with a figure of $80 for orphans not infected with HIV in our other Home. Why not make history and help give a future to these precious children by personally supporting one of them...until a cure is found! You will be kept posted on the progress of your sponsored child and on the news about finding the cure for AIDS. OUR AIDS CARE CENTRE.            Home Page | Profile | Album | Ministry | Newsletters | Contact | Products | Support | Links  | Video | Events Copyright 2005 - HBS Media Solutions