Help provide nutritional support to HIV/AIDS infected patients

Mariyamma, 32, from a remote village, experienced weight loss and weakness. After a medical check-up, she learned she was HIV/AIDS positive, causing distress as her husband also tested positive. Facing social stigma, she struggled to support her family financially.

Similarly, Bhavani, an orphaned 14-year-old lost her parents and sister to HIV/AIDS. Her aged grandparents are taking care of her with the meagre income they get from daily wage labour work. The family is not in a position to provide nutritious food or take care of her medical expenses. Balanced food and immediate medical attention are very essential for an infected child.

Children are greatly affected directly and indirectly by AIDS. They may contract HIV from the mother during delivery or via breast milk, develop paediatric AIDS and die. Or they may lose one or both parents to the disease. Children orphaned by AIDS are more likely to suffer serious nutritional and health problems, as well as emotional stress.

Chaitanya Educational and Rural Development Society (CERDS) is dedicated to supporting children and adults in need, ensuring they receive proper nutrition and education. Your regular contributions can help us expand our reach and ensure no child goes hungry. Consider making a monthly donation to support our cause.

Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India).

Why help is needed

In households with HIV-infected members, others may also experience nutritional impacts, particularly young children and orphans. Sometimes when adults become infected with the virus, they are too sick to work and cannot continue to provide for themselves and their families. This can result in reduced income for the household-—and hence fewer resources (labour and money) to obtain food. In addition, other family members suddenly find themselves working more, either to produce income or to provide care for the HIV-infected individual, which can also lead to a deterioration in nutritional status for themselves and their children.

How CERDS helps

Keeping in view the vulnerability of women and children infected with HIV/AIDS CERDS assists basic dry food and nutrition provisions every month to its beneficiaries. CERDS distributes nutritional supplies in bulk and packs them in its central region and distributes them to the target villages/ people by its volunteers every month. 

Help CERDS every month in continuing their work in supporting HIV/AIDS-infected patients. Donate monthly