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AIDS CARE PROJECTS IN AFRICA

LWR's partner Kiterrede Construction Institute in Kenya is educating approximately 240 AIDS orphans and poor youth in Rakai District. This project teaches skills that provide youth with income-generating activities to support themselves and their families.

$10 purchases one set of electrical hand tools (pliers, screwdrivers, hammer, wire cutter, file) for a student studying to become an electrician

$40 pays school fees for one student for one school term

$100 purchases two bicycles that students use for chores and travel

$225 purchases one cow for students to raise when learning animal husbandry


LWR's partner African Medical and Research Foundation in Uganda helps provide education to AIDS orphans and offers grants to their guardians. This project helps AIDS orphans obtain skills needed to support themselves and gives their guardians a repayable loan to start small businesses.

$30 pays primary school fees for one student for one year

$65 pays vocational and secondary school fees for one student for one year

$120 provides a repayable grant to orphan's guardians to operate small family businesses


LWR's partner the Sisters of Mercy in Kenya are educating AIDS orphans and street children at the Mukuru Promotion Center in Nairobi. In addition to providing shelter and sometimes, the only meals they will eat that day, 5,000 children are learning skills needed to support themselves and their families.

$200 pays school fees for one year for one day school student

$300 pays school fees for one year for one boarding school student

You may also contribute by calling 1-800-LWR-LWR-2, or mailing a check or money order to:

Lutheran World Relief - Stand With Africa
PO Box 17061
Baltimore, MD 21298-9832

 

Please note: These examples are provided as illustrations of current LWR projects only and do not indicate for what project LWR will use your donation. Your contribution will be used for AIDS Prevention and Care. LWR is proud of our long history of good stewardship of contributions from our supporters. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Fran Troxler at LWR: ftroxler@lwr.org or 410-230-2800

 

 

 

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