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I'll be doing the Walk for Life this year on behalf of CWAC.

Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Children With AIDS Charity gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.

CWAC is at the forefront of the fight against paediatric HIV and AIDS. The Education Programme has initiated ground-breaking projects, vital to stopping the spread of HIV, whilst the Hardship Project provides parents and children with essential items (such as warm winter clothing). The struggle to heighten HIV and AIDS awareness never stops. In spite of medical advances, children are still being born with HIV and young people need to know what the risks are and how to protect themselves.

Rebecca Handel, whose daughter Bonnie was being cared for at St Mary’s, met Jo Dodge, the coordinator of the service, to discuss the shortage in the existing provision of services for children infected and affected by HIV. Being white, middle-class and Jewish, Rebecca shattered all HIV-positive stereotypes, having become infected with HIV through a blood transfusion in her second pregnancy, before blood was screened for the virus.

Together with the paediatric team of St. Mary’s they decided to start a charity that could respond to the specific practical, emotional and educational requirements of children and their families infected and affected by HIV. A committee was formed in 1992 and on 12th October 1993 the Children With AIDS Charity was officially registered. Bonnie Handel, Rebecca’s daughter, died in St Mary’s Hospital the following December; Rebecca Handel died on 1 January 1995.

HIV and AIDS do not discriminate the risks and responsibilites are cross cultural and global.

The children of CWAC depend on your generosity to help them combat the fallacies surrounding HIV and AIDS issues and the fear and isolation that goes with it. Please help us to help children lead happier lives.

Thank you so much for any amount you feel able to donate.   If you'd prefer not to donate on line cheques/CAF should be made out to Children With AIDS Charity or CWAC.  Please note that if you donate by cheque or give cash this is added to the amount raised off-line and your name won't appear in the list below. 

£10   enables a child infected/affected by HIV to go on a respite day trip via the Respite Breaks Project.
£15   pays for one copy of our educational video Problem?, including a teacher’s handbook and one copy of our HIV: Risky Business video.
£20   enables a child infected/affected by HIV to go on a specialist residential overnight stay.
£25   prints and distributes interactive worksheets for a class of 10 children.
£30   enables us to send free resources to voluntary organisations that cannot afford to buy resources.

£50   pays for essential school items and uniform for a child via the Hardship Project.
£150 pays for a child's first bed via the Hardship Project.
£200 provides a mother with essential items for her newborn baby via the Hardship Project.
£400 enables a family of four to go on a family holiday together within the UK via the Respite Breaks Project.

Love

Sharon