Sponsor monthly rations to poor HIV positive patients– Rs. 2000 per person per month
Program Description
CAVI NGO runs a program to provide underprivileged HIV positive patients with adequate nutrition to help them withstand the strong medical treatment and help them through recovery.
One unit of donation to this program will support the monthly ration kit for one underprivileged HIV positive patient.
CAVI NGO’s outreach workers identify patients who need support from the government hospitals where they come for their Antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment. The patients are treated at the ART centers and RIMS Govt. Hospital where they receive medication as well. It is very important that people who are HIV+ must have good immunity and proper nutritional supplements are the best way to boost it.
CAVI NGO works in collaboration with ADP Plus (a HIV positive network) CBO which helps HIV+ patients from the lower strata of the economy with medications as well as works on creating awareness around HIV and AIDS. With their help, the CAVI NGO identifies the needy people on ART and enrolls them into the monthly ration program.
This program was started with the aim to provide rations and protein supplements to HIV positive patients including HIV+ pregnant mothers. It has now grown to a Nutritional Supplement Support Programme for patients under ART Treatment.
The ration is generally brought from local shops and distributed during the monthly meeting, which patients attend at RIMS Govt. Hospital premises.
The program is run with the philosophy that being HIV Positive is no reason to live a negative life.
They help patients who have been diagnosed positive to stop worrying about the essentials by providing them with a monthly ration kit.
The ration kit contains:
- 7 kgs. of rice
- 7 kgs. of wheat
- 2 kgs. of tur dal
- 1 ltr. cooking oil
- 1 kg. millet (Ragi) powder
- 2 kgs. of sugar
- 1 kg. of moong dal
- Along with this, a bottle of protein powder and monthly vitamins supplements are also given to the patients.
The program has so far reached out to 46 HIV positive couples. After providing monthly nutrition supplements there has been a definite increase in the weight and there is a general feeling of wellbeing.
The program also guides them towards empowerment so as to improve their economic condition as well as enrolls the members in AASARA Pension Scheme, Govt. of Telangana state. When you donate to this program, you help patients affected with HIV get access to adequate nutrition and help their recovery.