How You Can Help
Organizations mentioned on the NewsHour

Shining Stars of Monarch
An all-volunteer program that serves children orphaned by AIDS. They provide meals, awareness training, tutoring, and other services for children from the hard-hit city of Francistown, Botswana.
c/o Patricia Bakwinya
Shining Stars of Monarch
Tshireletso AIDS Awareness Group
P.O. Box 20815
Monarch, Francistown, Botswana
Phone: 011-267-203-336 or 011-267-721-52852
Email: shiningstars@botsnet.bw
Donations can also be wired directly to Shining Stars's bank account at the First National Bank of Botswana, Branch 281867, Account 620203, 83048, Account name: Tshireletso AIDS Awareness Group, ABA# FIRNBWGX

SASO, Salima HIV-AIDS Support Organization
An all-volunteer organization of care-givers operating in Salima, a rural region in central Malawi. They make home-visits assisting patients with medical and nutritional needs. They also offer support for children who have been orphaned and do AIDS testing.
c/o Catherine Phiri or George Kamyamba
SASO
PL Bag 18
Salima, Malawi
Phone: 011-265-262-821
Donations can also be wired directly to SASO's bank account at the Commercial Bank of Salima,
Account # 55601915, SWIFT code: CBMLMWMW, PO Box 62 Salima, Malawi

Project Hope
Project Hope is a U.S. non-profit that works closely with local community based organizations. They train a estate laborers in Malawi as health workers - instructing them in how to provide basic and essential services for workers and their families - vaccinating young children and pregnant women, providing nutrition counseling, treating diarrheal disease, and promoting good hygiene and sanitation. HOPE has also helped these estates develop and maintain effective HIV/AIDS education activities, and has trained health providers in treating pneumonia, malaria, sexually transmitted infections and in providing family planning services.
c/o Jack Bode
Development Department
Project HOPE
1-800-544-HOPE
http://www.projecthope.org/

Botswana-Harvard Partnership for HIV Research and Education
The partnership-a collaboration between the Ministry of Health of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute-conducts a range of epidemiologic and laboratory-based studies. The research activities focus on mother-to-child transmission of HIV among the local population and drug resistance testing of the HIV-1C virus before and during treatment. Contributions to the Botswana-Harvard Partnership directly benefit the clinical care of individuals and families living with HIV in Botswana.
c/o Leslie Bird
Botswana-Harvard Partnership
Harvard AIDS Institute
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-432-4530
http://www.aids.harvard.edu/lab_research/bhp.html

More Organizations
Doctors Without Borders
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Humana People to People
http://www.humana.org/
Netaid.org
http://www.netaid.org
Oxfam International
http://www.oxfam.org

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