American Foundation for Children with AIDS
Zinenani is a seventeen year old child who has been infected with aids. It is hard on the family because they try to save as much as they can to get her antibiotics to feel better but also need enough money to care for the other children and family. Where they live there is no drugs there to help with the AIDS so Zinenani just lives day by day as her appetite gets smaller. Collins and his mother Agnes are struggling with just the two of them due to the father dying of Aids. Agnes the mother sells ribbons on the sidewalks. They are in desperate need for money. Although Collins is only eight he has to quit school to help his mother finds ways to get money to support the both of them. What’s happening to Zinenani, Collin and is mother is not unusual families every day in Africa go through this situation, some situations worse than this where both parents die and the child because homeless and an orphan. Even children not infected with AIDS are still affected which is why the charity American Foundation for Children with AIDS give hope to these children in need. This problem is difficult to solve because so many people and children are affected and infected by it, but if they are giving the help and treatment they need from this charity then the …show more content…
It can make a difference Although AIDS is a major problem in the world today especially Africa, those who care about this problem and want to help with the solution should donate to the American Foundation for Children with AIDS because they are slowly making a difference in