Help Datta Bargaje care for 60 orphans with HIV and give them a home, urgent medicines, food and education

Infant India runs a home called Anandgram that cares for 60 HIV-positive orphaned children from underprivileged backgrounds. Through no fault of their own, these orphans contracted HIV, a serious disease. Without parents or guardians, these children have no access to medicines, doctors and the HIV treatments needed to stay alive. Infant India is an NGO that takes in these orphans and provides them with a home, nutritious food, medication and education for the rest of their childhoods and sets them on a path to have better and healthier futures. 

HIV-positive orphaned children face harsh discrimination and are outcast and shunned by relatives, neighbours, schools and society as a whole. The NGO has even come across children who have been forcibly thrown out of their schools, once it is discovered that they are HIV-positive. But these children suffer from more than the lack of medication or even access to education. Because of the stigma against HIV and AIDS, these innocent children are stripped of their worth and value and are forced to live in shame and in hiding. 

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How Infant India helps HIV-positive children

Founded in 2006, Infant India has helped more than 650 HIV-positive children, the youngest of which is just 3 years old. By focusing on holistic and long term care, the NGO provides all that a child needs. Infant India’s safe and loving shelter, food and medical care tends to the children’s basic needs and keeps them safe and well fed and gives them the vital medication their bodies require to fight the disease. The NGO also provides education and skills training to give the children a future in which they can be self-sufficient, financially independent and live dignified lives. 

But the NGO does not want the children to spend their lives alone, after having been abandoned at such young ages. So when the children become adults, the NGO arranges marriages with suitable partners, something that would be difficult to do on their own. Because of this thoughtful care, these marriages have resulted in the births of around 34 babies who are HIV-free. Each of these children contracted the virus through mother-to-child transmission. But through the NGO’s care, these children are able to become parents to HIV-negative children and live a full life.

The founders’ personal connection to HIV-positive orphans

Datta Bargaje was working as a lab technician and came across two blood samples in the lab of a woman and her child, which showed an HIV-positive result. In a few weeks Datta Bargaje learned that the mother died, leaving the child orphaned. Without care or guardians, this HIV-positive child was doomed to discrimination and death. Datta Bargaje and his wife didn’t take long to make the decision to adopt the child and this was how Infant India started the NGO that would go on to care for hundreds of HIV-positive children. 

Need for the fundraiser

Infant India needs your support to continue to care for the 60 HIV-positive orphans in their care. From the life-saving medication to the practical skills-training, Infant India’s care for HIV-positive orphans has transformed the lives of hundreds of children and raised them into self-sufficient and well-adjusted adults who have the foundation, motivation and positive outlook to live healthy and happy lives. To help care for HIV-positive orphaned children, donate to Infant India’s fundraiser. 

Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to help Infant India give 60 HIV-positive orphaned children medicines, nutrition, education, skills training and a loving home to have safe and long lives.