What is OrangeHOPE?
OrangeHOPE is a fundraising initiative of HOPE For AIDS Malawi.
It provides a new opportunity for individuals and groups to partner with SIM by raising financial support for HOPE for AIDS projects, and to
have a lot of fun whilst doing it!
Why support HOPE for AIDS Malawi ?
1 in 8 adults in Malawi have HIV, with still a million orphans and another generation of youth at high risk of infection. AIDS is still silently destroying lives, hopes and communities in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Through HOPE for AIDS, lives are being transformed, and
hope is being rediscovered. HOPE for AIDS works to bring practical, emotional and spiritual help to the poorest and most vulnerable people,
in some of the hardest to reach rural villages.
How to get involved
1. Choose which group of people you wish to bring HOPE to...
Bring HOPE by caring for the chronically sick
who face an uncertain future
Bring HOPE by loving the orphans & giving them a future
Bring HOPE by teaching the youth how to avoid HIV
2. Choose your fundraising event
3. Check out our resources page
4. Have fun!
Chronically sick
Home based care (HBC)
Project Number MW096253
Tax Deductible
Church volunteers are trained to visit the most chronically ill patients in their communities on a weekly basis working to improve their quality of life.
They provide some nutritional supplements, basic medicines & nursing care for improved health; psycho-social & spiritual counselling to support & encourage behaviour change in patients & their families; and practical assistance around the home as required.
Caring for the chronically sick (pdf - 440kb)
Orphans
Orphan & Vulnerable Children (OVC)
Project Number MW30-096255
Tax Deductible
Church volunteers are trained as OVC community visitors and advocates. Four volunteers receive special training as Early Childhood teachers
and helpers to work in a community day care centre which provides for the needs of the particularly vulnerable 0-5 age group through preschool teaching, a daily nutritious meal and giving a time of respite for the guardians. A Secondary school scholarships scheme is also provided for promising OVC’s whose education is jeopardised by their
changing circumstances.
Orphan & Vulnerable Children (pdf - 519kb)
Youth
AIDS Prevention (AP)
Project Number MW30-096654
NOT Tax Deductible
This project aims to mobilise and train around 30 youth leaders each year to act as peer educators – becoming the agents of change. They will teach their peers, promote behaviour change and positive pressure in their communities through facilitating courses using relevant literature in the national language (ChiChewa) and running rural based AIDS awareness events using local interest in either music, drama, art or sport.
AIDS Prevention (pdf - 469kb)